The maker of Twitterrific says it’s been left with no choice but to pull its app from app stores after Twitter stopped people from logging in to it.
Twitterrific, a third-party Twitter app for macOS and iOS that launched in 2007 and came to the iPhone before Twitter itself, has been left with no choice but to close down.
In a message posted on its website on Thursday, The Iconfactory said: “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 — a Twitter that we no longer recognize as trustworthy nor want to work with any longer.”
The decision to close Twitterrific comes a week after Twitter started preventing third-party Twitter clients — Twitterrific, Tweetbot, and Echofon among them — from accessing its API, leaving users unable to log in to the apps.
Twitter stayed silent on the issue for days, but earlier this week tweeted that it was “enforcing its long-standing API rules,” a change that it said “may result in some apps not working.
