“Yes, it\u2019s $12.99. But you should be okay paying for a piece of software you\u2019re going to use a ton. Plus, it\u2019s OS X Yosemite-pretty. “<\/em><\/p>\n$12.99 is nothing for a piece of software written by seasoned coders who support their user base day and night and work on their apps full time. If only Twitter charged $10 a year for their service, they wouldn\u2019t be in such dire financial need to shift constantly, inject ads into the timeline and cater to the investors with promises of earning improvements.\u00a0<\/p>\n
TweetBot is an application fully funded by its user base who fork over cash for a tool. Twitter and the other services should take notice. 90% of Twitter\u2019s user base would leave but the spammers would leave, bots, trolls and others would stop using it and Twitter would be healthy with cash.<\/p>\n
The thing about technology startups is there\u2019s this rule that everything should be free. Quality of service, usability all go out the window. I\u2019d gladly budget $100 a year for Google, Facebook, Twitter to charge me to not sell my data to advertisers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If you use Twitter on iPhone or Mac, support the guys behind TweetBot.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I use Twitter only professionally now and have killed off my personal accounts except for a Twitter-Bot that…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:28:27Z","apple_news_api_id":"e6b785f1-5255-48cf-a594-a1a5a2caee43","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:28:27Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A5reF8VJVSM-llKGlosruQw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-technology","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1dS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2214,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/04\/14\/tweetbot-1-0-is-going-to-sell-very-well\/","url_meta":{"origin":4704,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Tweetbot 1.0 is going to sell very well…","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"When Shawn Blanc, Marco Arment and John Gruber tweet about their fascination and drooling over a new Twitter app, it's nearly a guarantee that this application will sell well. 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