Now is the perfect time to check back in with your developer account to see if you haven't been banned without warning.
Its pretty amazing to make Google seem like a beacon of stability, but Twitter managed to do it. I feel for all the developers scrambling to make a mastodon app now in an effort to restart or secure their clients, and wish them luck.
> I feel for all the developers scrambling to make a mastodon app now in an effort to restart or secure their clients
Is anyone doing that? It would be incredibly foolish to believe that people that paid for a Twitter client would suddenly be fine with a paying for a Mastodon client.
I think you would be surprised. The folks who will pay for a premium experience by using a 3rd party app are likely willing to do the same on another platform.
Might be a hard sell for me since less than 10% of the accounts that I follow on Twitter have any kind of Mastodon presence, and toot per tweet volume is probably considerably less than 10%.
I can get a lot more value from a good Twitter client than I can from a good Mastodon client.
On the other hand, I left twitter quite a while ago and I was a tweetbot user. I’ll be purchasing Ivory the day it’s available since I’m really waiting for a mastodon client that offers the tweetbot experience.
I think you are missing where a large part of the value from those alternative clients come from beside features and layout: no ads or trash recommendations.
As far as I know, neither of those are an issue on Mastodon and therefore the value of 3rd party clients isn't there.
For me it’s about paying for a slightly smoother UX and for supporting the growth of the Mastodon ecosystem. I hope that good 3rd party apps will eventually also ease the onboarding of less techie audiences.
The Tweetbot people have one coming out any day now. Given the alarming speed at which the TestFlight slots go (I got in on my third attempt, totally by chance; all slots were gone by a minute after) there appears to be an audience.
Ivory from the makers of Tweetbot. The project was started before the whole Twitter API fiasco started, but apparently they've had to accelerate the development of it now.
Well it would make sense. If you have a bunch of customers who are clearly willing to pay for this kind of application, have a bit of brand loyalty and who may now have a bit of a sour taste in their mouth at being suddenly shut out of Twitter then that's definitely an opportunity worth exploring if you already have a team with expertise in building this kind of app (and quite possibly some tech that can be re-used)
The account I use for my @dcskycam Twitter bot has been locked a few times for posting sunset videos flagged as inappropriate and the account itself was “permanently suspended for repeated violations” only to be un-suspended almost immediately.
This is just a hobby project for me but if it was revenue generating I’d be looking for other platforms rather than starting new projects on such an unstable platform!
Its pretty amazing to make Google seem like a beacon of stability, but Twitter managed to do it. I feel for all the developers scrambling to make a mastodon app now in an effort to restart or secure their clients, and wish them luck.