Tapbotson Thursday releasedTweetbot for Macin the Mac App Store , though at a price higher than the company had ab initio intended to charge . The companionship say the app ’s $ 20 fee comes due to Twitter ’s increase limitations on third - party apps .
Twitter ’s new restrictionshave leave behind third - party app developersscrambling to visualize out how to sustain their business sector . Among the limitations is a hard ceiling on how many users third - political party apps can support ; the base limitation is 100,000 users , but that phone number give-up the ghost higher for apps that had already outdo 100,000 user by the prison term Twitter implemented the cap . Back in August , Tapbots pulled the Tweetbot betato avoid filling up too many of its allot tokens with devoid users . The company say that Tweetbot for Mac ’s limit is at least double the 100,000 nonpayment cap , but has n’t gotten more specific than that .
“ We specifically picked this [ $ 20 ] price distributor point so that we could continue to support the app even if we run out of tokens , ” Tapbots ’s Paul Haddad toldMacworld .
Haddad says that the token cap and other API limitation did n’t discourage the company from fetch up up Tweetbot for Mac . “ If anything , ” he enounce , “ it push us to get it release even quicker . ” He did indicate that his party has call for Twitter to raise the nominal ceiling for Tweetbot for Mac . “ The response so far is ‘ no , ’ ” he said .
Tweetbot for Mac reliably recreates the experience of Tweetbot ’s hugely popular apps for iPhone and iPad . The interface duplicate much of what characterizes the app on iOS — down to the automaton - barrack sound effects , tap - and - admit crosscut , and deep integration with legion third - political party services let in Instapaper , Tweet Marker , and TwitPic .
But despite its feature - richness — and the darling status of the iOS variant of the app — Haddad indicated that Tapbots felt thrust into pricing the app higher than it require . “ We ’d obviously like to be able to sell [ Tweetbot for Mac ] to as many mass as people desire , but given the terminal point that Twitter is bring down on us , we picked a higher price to support continued development . ”
Tapbots released Netbot for iPad and iPhone earlier this calendar month . That app , which habituate the App.net societal internet , otherwise behaves nearly identically to Tweetbot . But Haddad did n’t comment on whether a Netbot app for Mac is upcoming : “ We have n’t announce anything yet and are focusing on sire Tweetbot for Mac out this hebdomad . ”
Tweetbot for Mac requires Mac OS X 10.7.4 or later .
