Twitterific for iOS and Twitterific for Mac

Craig Hockenberry returns to the show to talk about the demise of third-party Twitter clients, the overall Twitter shitshow, touchscreens on the Mac, and the perils of autocorrect when you have a clever username.

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Links:

• Black Girls Code — recipients of $100 for each utterance of you-know-who’s name during this episode.
• From the Daring Fireball archive (2009): “Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground”.
• Craig, this week: “The Shit Show”.
• My take this week: “Twitterrific: End of an Era”.
• The Iconfactory’s other apps:
  • Wallaroo — delightful iOS wallpapers
  • Tot — text scratchpad for Mac and iOS
  • xScope — screen inspector for Mac designers
  • Linea — excellent drawing app for iPad
  • Frenzic — fun game in Apple Arcade
• Edovia’s Screens — amazing VNC app to use your Mac from iOS devices.
• Lights Off — the first-ever game for iPhone, still available in the App Store.
• EDGE “2G” cellular data networking.
• Blaine Cook, early Twitter engineer and champion of third-party client APIs, now all-in on Mastodon.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.