On both Android and iOS, we have at our disposal a series of applications, all of them paid, that They allow us to consult and interact with our Twitter account without having to resort to the official application of the company, an application that not only offers us a large amount of advertising on our timeline, but also shows us the content in a non-chronological way (unless we modify the configuration options).
Users who use Twitter as the main means of communication use this type of application, but it may be that are forced to use the official app from June of this year, Since Jack Dorsey's company intends to modify the operation of the API, applying some changes that would disable notifications and the automatic update of the timeline.
Apparently, as reported by Twitter, the part of the API that allows developers to take advantage of these functions would be replaced by a new Account Activity call, but it is not clear that this new function will be able to replace the functions that will no longer be available in the official API as of June 19, the date on which the changes will take effect. In addition, the Account Activity function, which is still in beta, is not available to developers, who need a reasonable amount of time to adapt their applications to new changes.
Twitterrific, Talon, Tweetbot, Falcon ... are some of the main developers that offer third-party applications to interact with the microblogging social network. These developers have published a statement in which they affirm that their applications will no longer be useful, so all users will be forced to use the official application.
Facebook does not allow any third-party client to access its contentThis is not the case with Twitter, which allows developers to create third-party applications that take advantage of all the infrastructure that is mounted around them, and when the main attraction is not to show advertising from the social network.
It is logical that Twitter wants to redirect all users of the social network to the official application, so that its advertising can reach a greater number of users. So far, the official API does not allow third-party developers to take advantage of some of the more prominent features of the social network. The next API modification goes designed to further limit the power of developers to deliver quality third-party clients. We'll see how the song ends, but it doesn't look very good.