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Re:Favstar will shut down as a result of Twitter’s API chang... by joelrunyon on Monday May 14, 2018 @04:44PM (#17069284)
So that kills a lot of the point of the app?
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Re:Favstar will shut down as a result of Twitter’s API chang... by ihuman on Monday May 14, 2018 @05:36PM (#17069664)
It doesn't. There's no replacement for push notifications besides using the official app, but you can still manually refresh the timeline (via pull-to-refresh).
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Re:Favstar will shut down as a result of Twitter’s API chang... by MBCook on Monday May 14, 2018 @05:02PM (#17069423)
I don’t think so. Even with those limitations I’ll be way happier using it than the official one or a web page.
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