Popular iOS developer Tapbots has announced the end of alpha testing program of its much awaited Tweetbot for Mac Twitter client, blaming it on
Twitter's API changes.
Making the announcement via a blog post, Tapbots assured that the Tweetbot for Mac would still go on sale "in the near future", but they had to stop the alpha program so as not to run out of their quota of tokens on users who may end up not buying the app.
Tapbots also encouraged users who have installed the Tweetbot for Mac alpha to "Revoke access" to the app, so the unused tokens go back in the pool.
Here's more from the
blog post:
With the above rules being in place its easy to see why continuing the public alpha/beta would be problematic. Someone might use the app, decide they don't like it and the token would be gone forever. That being said now would probably be a good time to help 3rd party developers out and Revoke access to any clients that you no longer use.
Just to be perfectly clear, Tweetbot for Mac will still be available for sale in the near future, we are just stopping the public part of the alpha/beta testing. We wish we could continue on but we didn't make the rules, we just have to live within them. Again sorry for the hassle and thank you very much to everyone that has provided valuable feedback during the alpha.