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Re:Twitter Reportedly Discontinuing Development of Its Mac C... by ig1 on Saturday September 08, 2012 @05:27PM (#4494051)
Most people I know who use a Mac desktop app for Twitter use TweetDeck (which was acquired by Twitter last year), so it wouldn't surprise me if they're deprecating the Mac Twitter client in order to make TweetDeck their standard desktop client across platforms.
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Re:Twitter Reportedly Discontinuing Development of Its Mac C... by chimeracoder on Saturday September 08, 2012 @06:15PM (#4494184)
Given that TweetDeck seems fated to be abandonware, I highly doubt it. Their Android client became all but unusable soon after the acquisition, and I've heard iOS was dropped completely.

TweetDeck was mostly a defensive acquisition to begin with (they had a huge market share, and deck.ly was a perceived threat).

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Re:Twitter Reportedly Discontinuing Development of Its Mac C... by ig1 on Saturday September 08, 2012 @07:08PM (#4494328)
They abandoned mobile but not desktop, the last Mac update was about a month ago and looking at their jobs page they're actively hiring new people to work on it.

It would be inline with wanting to have one official client per platform.

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