![]() Very few developers take advantage of this iOS feature. Change Home Screen App Icon: Apps can include an option for user-selectable app icons, which lets you change the icon for the app that shows up on your home screen.Only one app so far lets you take advantage of Siri for a customized hands-free experience. There's also Siri Shortcuts, which makes life easier by letting you create custom Siri commands to use with the app. Siri Integration: Some apps can be used with Siri right away, after giving permission to let the app send data to Apple to process your spoken requests.Gesture Shortcuts: Not including 3D Touch, here we're looking for apps that use swipe gestures to get things done faster, such as undoing edits.iCloud Sync: Whether or not the app syncs data on iCloud.3D Touch: All apps have 3D Touch capabilities inside of the app, such as peek and pop support.Must Create Third-Party Account: Only one app in this list requires that you create an account in order to log in to and use your Twitter account.Ads: Do the third-party clients feature ads? If so, what kind? These range from none to static banners to promoted tweets.Pro Features: Paid versions usually offer more features and get rid of advertisements, and the ones in the chart are the most important ones to be excited about.Price for Pro Version: Although all of these clients are free to use, four have pro versions available that range in price from a $2.99 one-time payment to $29.99 a month.Number of Accounts Supported: Most people stick to one account, but it's important to look at the number of accounts each client supports, especially if your job entails managing multiple Twitter accounts.Usually, anything above a 4 is positive, meaning it has a relatively minimal number of negative reviews. App Store Rating: Every client on this list (except Twitter Lite, which is not available in the App Store) has a 4.3 rating or higher in the App Store.All of the below points correlate to the chart above. Update, 1/17/23, 1 PM ET:Twitter confirmed the API changes in a post published on Tuesday afternoon, claiming it was just enforcing its “long-standing API rules,” and that “may result in some apps not working.” This belated response didn’t go down well with developers or impacted users, as replies to the post and other social media updates indicated.Not all third-party Twitter clients are created equal, which is why we took a look at several important factors across every iOS application we reviewed. This dubious suspension of third-party Twitter clients without any communication will not instill any confidence in the community. Last month, Twitter’s former head of developer platforms, Amir Shevat, wrote a TechCrunch article about how the new management broke the trust of developers. These kinds of moves have undone the social network’s work over the last few years to earn back developers’ trust. Developers have been cautious about their Twitter development plan given that the company hasn’t explicitly communicated its plans about platform support. Some other programs are in the defunct state even if the company has not announced official shutdowns. Since Musk took over Twitter last year, the company has shuttered several developer-related projects, including Twitter Toolbox for app discovery. Such is the unending stress of being controlled by a gatekeeper. ![]() Tapbots are lucky to be making Ivory, and Iconfactory are lucky they have other apps. We have proof now that suspending Tweetbot, Twitterrific, and 23 other clients was intentional. Villa also released a beta version of his Mastodon client Wolly on Apple’s test platform TestFlight. He said that currently the team is focused on making the onboarding experience better, then fixing the bugs and working toward an App Store release. Haddad told TechCrunch over an email that Tweetbot is concentrating on launching its Mastodon client Ivory - which is currently in a closed beta - at an accelerated pace. Some developers have already shown intent of concentrating on other projects. That would also mean that their annual income would go down and they would have to build new products while making no money. Ī bunch of these developers were concerned about handling refunds for folks who have subscribed to the pro or premium versions of their apps if Twitter banned third-party clients. ![]() Looks like those popular apps were suspended for some reason. Twitter backend doesn't seem to be broken. Also created a demo client to test the API. Just tested a bunch of third-party Twitter apps for both iOS and Android: many seem to work. ![]()
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