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     Tweetbot and Twitterrific Ask Users for Help after Twitter Client Ban

   Adam Engst

   At Daring Fireball, [1]John Gruber writes:

     Twitter's kneecapping of third-party clients didn't just mean that
     theirfuturerevenue was gone'''it meantrevenue they'd already
     collectedfrom App Store subscriptions would need to go back to
     customers in the form of prorated refunds for the remaining months
     on each and every user's annual subscriptions. Consider the gut
     punch of losing your job'''you stop earning income. It's brutal. Now
     imagine that the way it worked when you get fired or laid off is
     that you're also suddenly on the hook to pay back the last, say, 6
     months of your income. That's where Tapbots and The Iconfactory are.

   After Elon Musk pulled the plug on third-party Twitter clients without
   notice, the small companies behind Tweetbot and Twitterrific face an
   existential financial crisis brought on by the need to refund pro-rated
   subscriptions. If you subscribe to either app, I encourage you to
   consider opening it and tapping the 'I don't need a refund' button to
   help the developers. Tapbots also offers an option to transfer your
   subscription time to its Ivory client for Mastodon (see '[2]Mastodon: A
   New Hope for Social Networking,' 27 January 2023).

   [3]Read original article

References

   1. https://daringfireball.net/2023/03/tweetbot_and_twitterrific_face_the_cliff
   2. https://tidbits.com/2023/01/27/mastodon-a-new-hope-for-social-networking/
   3. https://daringfireball.net/2023/03/tweetbot_and_twitterrific_face_the_cliff

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