Twitter has announced that it will discontinue its desktop Mac app for its web client. According to the company’s Twitter post, the app support will stop after 30 days from now.
We're focusing our efforts on a great Twitter experience that's consistent across platforms. So, starting today the Twitter for Mac app will no longer be available for download, and in 30 days will no longer be supported.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) February 16, 2018
However, the app rating on Mac App Store is less than 2 stars out of 5, which itself says the popularity of the app and interest of the users using it. Users eventually started using other Twitter clients such as Tweetbot and Tweetdeck, which are far superior in terms of features they offer, compared to default Twitter app.
According to TheVerge report, the company didn’t even make the Twitter app for the Mac on their own instead they outsourced development to a third-party digital studio in Seattle called Black Pixel.
In spite of the Twitter app being unpopular on Mac desktop, the majority of the user database is on the web and mobile versions of this micro-blogging site, which the company is focusing to improve on.
The company recently increased the character count from 140 to 240 for its users. Twitter is also planning to deal with the fake news problem – an occurrence that happens after every tragic incident and doesn't seem to be go away.
