On: Tweetbot is back down again

[nlitened]

Imagine TweetBot and Twitterrific just silently became dual Twitter/Mastodon clients, automatically following Mastodon accounts that are followed on Twitter, and when Twitter API is unavailable, customers don't notice a thing.

[LeoPanthera → nlitened]

A Mastodon version of TweetBot is already in development, and nearly finished. It's called "Ivory". https://tapbots.com/ivory/

[ilikehurdles → nlitened]

The customers would notice because with mastodon the apps would actually fetch content.

[saurik → nlitened]

They'd notice because the people they were following would change, as not everyone on Twitter is on Mastodon.

[Terretta → saurik]

Nah, it's just "the algorithm" deciding who to show you like any ad-social site.

Sheer coincidence it decides to show you the sort of folks that might try Mastodon. ;-)

[foogazi → nlitened]

Would have been nice to see - silently gathering mastodon links of all your follows and building a twitter alt

As it is these clients only fed off the main twitter api and when that was turned off it errors out

[bushbaba → nlitened]

More likely is a shift to have news updates through instagram, Facebook, or TikTok.