The people behind third-party Twitter clients Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Talon, and Tweetings are warning users that their apps could lose important features like push notifications and an auto-refresh timeline in June. The problem is that after June 19th, Twitter will be removing the “streaming services” that have enabled developers to implement these functions in their apps.
Those services will be replaced with an Account Activity API, but so far Twitter hasn’t allowed outside developers to participate in the beta testing of that API. Even in a best-case scenario, it would only potentially restore the push notification side of things; it sounds like third-party Twitter clients just won’t have any practical way of offering a live-updating timeline anymore. “You will see delays in real-time updates during sporting events and breaking news,” the developers say.
They’re raising the issue now in hopes that Twitter will offer some kind of solution before the mid-June cutoff. That’s probably only going to happen if the company hears enough complaints about yet another decision that seems designed to reduce the functionality and appeal of third-party Twitter clients. Some of these apps offer native software on platforms that Twitter itself has decided to abandon.
“Many folks don’t realize that their favorite Twitter app is about to break, so awareness is the first step. Together, we may be able to get Twitter to constructively address this state of affairs before the June deadline.”
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