This is not correct (or, is misstating the reality). They're discontinuing their product because Twitter banned their API keys/developer account and no longer supports third party clients through their API. There is no longer a supported API for Twitterific to use.
Unsure if you're familiar with what happened over the past week, but twitter revoked their access without any announcement or communications. Openly hostile towards developers using the API.
To continue developing and supporting Twitterific would be to fight against someone/a company who does not want them.
like I said, all your words taken together need to make sense, or they are open to reinterpretation and critique. This is the autistic way of sentence analysis.
I don't agree with the unannounced disconnection of the API, as there was room for compromise, such as third party clients only available to people who pay the subscription to Twitter, but alas, the new corporate direction is that they want the ads to go through, and that wasn't happening at all with the third party clients.
hey, call me autistic (I won't complain) but I don't like that/how/when people are emotionally moved that they then say things that facially don't even make sense, but people who are moved by it have no interest in tracking what was said.
> Maybe the best thing anyone's ever told us. Thank you for this, truly. It is everything.
no, it's not everything; if it were everything then you'd keep producing your product for people such as this, but you are discontinuing the product for your own reasons. Which, reading in between the other lines you wrote, I suspect indicate that they have been moved to make these moves by tribal inclination.
> an unannounced and undocumented policy change by an increasingly capricious Twitter – a Twitter that we no longer recognize as trustworthy nor want to work with any longer.
nothing about their trying to resolve this with Twitter, nothing about the technical changes that perhaps we could understand why Twitter made them (to protect itself against spammers or one-way siphoning of customer to competitors, etc.) what we are left to conclude is that they are taking their ball and going home because Elon Musk gives them vapors because he's not allowed to one of the cool kids any more.
Twitter has made frustrating (to people who were using them) changes to their APIs before, but it was never about good vs evil, or who gets to be in our club and who doesn't, it was "well, that's business, after all it's Twitter's API".