Twitter’s relationship with third-party apps is messy — but it’s not over

It’s a day that some of Twitter’s most high-profile developers have dreaded, though it’s one they’ve long-known was coming: Twitter is finally shutting off some of the developer tools that popular apps like Tweetbot and Twitterific have heavily relied on.

With the change, many third-party Twitter apps will lose some functionality, like the ability to instantly refresh users’ Twitter feeds and send push notifications. It won’t make these apps unusable — in some cases the apps’ users may not even immediately notice the changes — but it’s a drastic enough change that developers have mounted a public campaign against the decision. Read more…

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