The slow death of Twitter

It began back when Twitter imposed limits on 3rd party software back in 2012. It’s taken a while but look where we are now…

You can either use Tweetdeck (see massive security breach just a week ago to see how wise / popular that is for an idea), or the twitter webpage.

If you’re running Windows 7? Forget it. The most popular clients have already reached maximum user limits. What you’re left with are people touting sobee’s as an alternative.

No. Just no. If you’re following a fair number of accounts you need a STREAMING client. So let’s just bin all the “Updates every five minutes” options. Useless.

Also if you’re following a lot of accounts (and want to actually read some of it), you need filters. Most of the suggested alternatives don’t have filters.

Take a look at review sites suggesting the best Windows twitter clients in 2014? Windows 8 only and they cost money. Or Tweetdeck.

Have a deeper dig. You get results for Twhirl, Spaz and DestroyTwitter still appearing as suggested alternatives. They have all been dead for months / years. Dig further and you might try something like Pokki .. and install some malware that you can’t easily uninstall while you’re there.

Forget it Twitter. I can’t find an app that I want to use to access your service due to your insane 3rd party app policy, so I’m just going to stop using twitter.

Less users = Less ad revenue potential = Twitter slowly dies.

Congrats on the 3rd party software policies guys. Good job.