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> but you are discontinuing the product for your own reasons. This is not correct (or, is misstating the reality). They're discontinuing their product because

> but you are discontinuing the product for your own reasons. This is not correct (or, is misstating the reality). They're discontinuing their product because Twitter banned their API keys/developer account and no longer supports third party clients through their API. There is no longer a supported API for Twitterific to use. Unsure if you're familiar with what happened over the past week, but twitter revoked their access without any announcement or communications. Openly hostile towards developers using the API. To continue developing and supporting Twitterific would be to fight against someone/a company who does not want them.

fsckboy 4y ago
then why wouldn't they just say that rather than leaving it out and saying a bunch of other stuff? Why say they don't want to work with Twitter when they clearly would rather work with Twitter if the API was still available to them? like I said, all your words taken together need to make sense, or they are open to reinterpretation and critique. This is the autistic way of sentence analysis.
- lexandstuff 4y ago
  They said that in the opening paragraph: "We are sorry to say that the app's sudden and undignified demise is due to an unannounced and undocumented policy change by an increasingly capricious Twitter". That sentence links to this post which explains in more detail what happened: https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/state-of-the-twitterverse/ https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/state-of-the-twitterver...
  - fsckboy 4y ago
    that's too oblique, the term "policy change" could refer to a change in the price, for example, or a change in the privacy policy
    - philistine 4y ago
      Here's my two cents: it's oblique because they're talking to lawyers about suing Twitter and want to keep their options open.
      - madeofpalk 4y ago
        Having followed these people for quite a number of years, it would surprise me if that’s the case. They seem to just want to move past this whole thing and not drag it out with a lawsuit, hence discontinuing the app.

fsckboy 4y ago

then why wouldn't they just say that rather than leaving it out and saying a bunch of other stuff? Why say they don't want to work with Twitter when they clearly would rather work with Twitter if the API was still available to them? like I said, all your words taken together need to make sense, or they are open to reinterpretation and critique. This is the autistic way of sentence analysis.

lexandstuff 4y ago
They said that in the opening paragraph: "We are sorry to say that the app's sudden and undignified demise is due to an unannounced and undocumented policy change by an increasingly capricious Twitter". That sentence links to this post which explains in more detail what happened: https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/state-of-the-twitterverse/ https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/state-of-the-twitterver...
- fsckboy 4y ago
  that's too oblique, the term "policy change" could refer to a change in the price, for example, or a change in the privacy policy
  - philistine 4y ago
    Here's my two cents: it's oblique because they're talking to lawyers about suing Twitter and want to keep their options open.
    - madeofpalk 4y ago
      Having followed these people for quite a number of years, it would surprise me if that’s the case. They seem to just want to move past this whole thing and not drag it out with a lawsuit, hence discontinuing the app.