@chockenberry Wonderful read!!

Has it really been 16 years?? I've been using Twitterrific off and on since it first came out.

I love the callout for ActivityPub!!

@chockenberry Great post. Sorry to hear about your mother (it’s been a year and a half since I lost mine and it still doesn’t seem real). As a long-time user of Twitterrific (and Tweetbot), I like your take on all of this. Can’t wait to see — and support — what comes of it.

@chockenberry 😔

@chockenberry my condolences on your mom, and to the Twitterrific team.

@chockenberry Crazy idea: update Twitterrific so that it’s just an instruction on deleting the Twitter account and signing up for Mastodon.

@chockenberry more like King Chickenshithead (but yes, wtf, etc etc)

@chockenberry I know it’s old hat but including RSS feeds would be great. That also opens a federated reader up to Reddit.

@chockenberry Beautifully written. Really sorry to hear about your mum. I really hope your company can move on, come out the side and be successful.

@chockenberry I’m sorry for your loss and for the bullshit you, @gedeonm, @bigzaphod and the rest of the Iconfactory team have to deal with.

When I look back on the last 15 or so years, Twitterrific’s one of the things I can’t imagine not having, for a slew of reasons.

@chockenberry Thank you - and I'm sorry about your mom. I hope she was proud of this thing you built that gave us all so much joy for 16 years.

@chockenberry love the zeal and energy… great post! (Very saddened to hear about your Mom however ❤️)

@chockenberry Condolences for your losses - Mom & Twitterrific 💔

@chockenberry let us know when you guys have a Mastodon client. Twitteriffic was my first Twitter client. It defined those early days.

You’ve got my $$$ when you’re ready.

@chockenberry sorry for your loss!
And I like the idea of the timeline for everything pretty much.

@chockenberry man, that sucks.

@chockenberry My condolences Craig, my dad passed away in December 2018, eighteen months after being diagnosed with a terminal illness. Watching him fade away was hard, but at least he died at home with his family around him.

As for Twitter, I can only add thanks to you and all those who worked to make using it a lot better.

@chockenberry so good. So right.

@chockenberry you said it perfectly. I’m looking forward to the group of great developers that built stuff for Twitter over the last 15 years turning their attention back to the open web. There will be a transition, but we will all be better for it.

@chockenberry amen Craig. Thank you and your team for all the hard work. I truly look forward seeing what your team comes up with next. Onward! 🤙🏻🚀

@chockenberry Maybe it could be found at www . theshit . show and starring Donald J. Trump on how he wants to turn the United States into a cesspool of crime and villainy.

@chockenberry I’m so sorry for your losses.

@chockenberry Thank you for all that you’ve done to make Twitter a better place for the last 16 years 🫡

@chockenberry well said (and indeed, tame, considering the circumstances.)

@chockenberry @paul I like that you’re thinking about more than a mastodon client. As you say federation opens up so much more.

@chockenberry A universal timeline sounds incredible. I was an early Twitterrific user, and I’m grateful for your work. Sorry to hear about your Mom—I lost my Dad a year ago, and it’s still *weird* sometimes to not be able to pick up the phone and call him.

@chockenberry just wanted to say thank you for all your work in the past. Your app was the first 3rd party app I used when it was released on Mac. All my expectations of what a good Twitter/Mastodon app should be became set by your team’s work. ❤️

@chockenberry Deepest condolences for the loss of your mother. I lost my dad near the end of 2021 and it’s still too fresh for me, so I can absolutely understand how you feel right now. As if that weren’t bad enough, now this happens. I despise what he’s done to you and other developers, all for the sake of greed, profit, and inflating his Mars-sized ego.

You’re right to not give him the satisfaction, but also even more right to embrace the open standard and craft something better.

@chockenberry

What you said right here. Absolutely!

❝ Federation exposes a lot of different data sources that you’d want to follow. Not all of these sources will be Mastodon instances: you may want to stay up-to-date with someone’s Micro.blog, or maybe another person’s Tumblr, or someone else’s photo feed. There are many apps and servers for you to choose from.
It feels like the time is right for a truly universal timeline. ❞

@chockenberry Deepest condolences on the passing of your mother.

@chockenberry My condolences to you and all the good people in this thread who have lost loved ones.

@chockenberry Easily 99% of my usage of Twitter was through Twitterrific (Mac, iOS, iPad). It's simply unbearable through Twitter's own apps/site. Icon Factory is the best; Twitterrific was the best. But time to move on. Agree with every word in the post.

@chockenberry condolences, especially about your mom. Sad to see years of work going down the drain because someone is on a destructive ego trip, i try not to be sentimental about code, and focus on what was learned, but yeah, sigh.

@chockenberry Thank you for posting this.

1st - I’m sorry for yours and your families loss. I send you all lots of love.

2nd - I’ve been using Twitterrific since the beginning. It was a window to a world that helped me make friends and feel happy. You and your team made a massive difference to my life and I’m very grateful for that.

3rd - Your points around reimagining the experience this new chapter will bring are very exciting. I can’t wait to see what you let us play with.

@chockenberry 💜💜💜, Craig. I can’t imagine how hard the last few months have been.

I wouldn’t have stuck with the birdsite as long as I did if it hadn’t been for Twitterrific. I’ll always be grateful for the work you all put into it.

@chockenberry This deserves ALL the boosts

#twitterrific #twitter #musk

@chockenberry I'm a big fan of your blog, I've messaged you privately because I think I may be able to give you something that'll help with Fediverse stuff you may wanna do eventually. 😅 (I'm not asking for anything in return).

@chockenberry can’t wait to see what catches your attention and energy.

@chockenberry My only disagreement with you: it’ll be a $44B version of 4chan. Otherwise: (*chef kiss*)

I’m as excited about the prospect of a universal timeline as you seem. Can’t wait to see what you build next.

@chockenberry As a fellow denizen of the pre-at-replies, pre-hashtags days of Twitter, I salute you for your efforts. I didn't use Twitteriffic myself, but know folks who do/did and loved it.

@chockenberry so disrespectful to the devoted devs. And also incredibly disrespectful to the many users that use third party apps. Shows you everything you need to know about their values.

@chockenberry Hoping to see Tooterific soon ;-)

@chockenberry I'd love to hear the un-tame version.

@chockenberry Agree with your sentiment- I'm excited about the future of ActivityPub based decentralized social media, and will build new products here as well!

@chockenberry #ElonMusk is an immature, selfish, egotistical, moron who doesn’t care about anything other than himself. I’m terribly sorry he ruined your work with complete disregard. I, for one, will not support him or his dumpster fire. Here’s to better days💙

@chockenberry It all sucks. I’ve used Twitterrific for years… you all put your heart and soul into it and we noticed. Thank you for such a great run, product, and team.

@chockenberry

So sorry about the bird thing, doubly* so about your mom.

*That is how the saying goes… but way more than that.

@chockenberry Sorry this thing happens to you and other third party app developers. Hope we can build a strong and better community in the fediverse and let the evil birdsite slowly die. 🙏

@chockenberry I started using Twitter in early 2007 because of Twitterrific. You guys don’t get the credit you deserve for helping the service get its wings.

@chockenberry I am so, so sorry this happened to your business and others'. All the best in whatever you choose to do next. F*** Space Karen!

@chockenberry well said indeed

@chockenberry I’m very sorry to hear :(

Twitterrific really was one of my favourite Twitter apps and a fond memory of my very early days starting on Twitter

@chockenberry I lost my mom just before Christmas as well and I just want to say my condolences. It’s been one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to feel.

Also, that’s one hell of a post that captures my feelings about all of this perfectly. These days may suck a bit, but there is something exciting about the future now.

@chockenberry beautiful write up ❤️ and I feel really sorry that you had to write this “What bothers me about Twitterrific’s final day is that it was not dignified.”

@chockenberry I fucking love this post. 🤘🏻

@chockenberry omg! I am so glad you posted “The Shit Show”! And I am so glad that I found it on Mastodon! I was a longtime Twitterrific user and I had no idea who the developer was until now! As soon as I noticed Twitterrific wasn’t working I swore I wouldn’t be back until it was restored! It was a great run. And thank you so much for Twitterific! It was theeeee best client! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!!!

@chockenberry After a lengthy decline, I lost my dad just before Christmas. You have my sincere condolences.

@chockenberry Well said, sir. Condolences on your losses personal and professional. Onward.

@chockenberry

I'm so sorry to hear of your mother's passing.

Just want you to know that I've used Twitteriffic for a long time, and really really liked it.

Take care & do good work!

@chockenberry

You tell him, boss

@chockenberry I'm so sorry - I know what it feels like to lose something you worked so hard on.

@chockenberry I agree with your vision of a true social reader and its something we've been thinking about at #indieweb for a while. Anything we can do to help? https://indieweb.org/social_reader

@chockenberry really appreciate the way you've said this. Not corporate nice making. Very refreshing.

@chockenberry "P.S. That's the tame version." How much do we have to pay you for the non-tame version? :)

@chockenberry So sorry for your loss, Craig.

@chockenberry There will be new and different things that rise from the ashes. I like your approach — starve the egomaniac of attention and move on. And you are right about Twitterific enhancing the early Twitter experience. Your app kept me on there during the early days and definitely improved the overall usability of the platform.

Looking forward to seeing what’s next for you. In the meanwhile, be sure to take some time for yourself. Condolences on the loss of your mom, that’s a hard loss.

@chockenberry give Elon hell!

@chockenberry your thoughts on a universal timeline intrigues me. I have multiple #Mastodon accounts for different purposes, a #Pixelfed I haven’t figured out what to do with, and am wondering what I would do with a #WriteFreely site. I’m excited to see where the brains behind #Twiterrific can go in the Fediverse. 👏

@chockenberry “a truly universal timeline” great way of describing the fedi

@chockenberry I really appreciate all you did to make the experience good. This loss is going to make Twitter a less worthwhile experience for me.

@chockenberry That was a very fine piece about a veritable shit show.

@chockenberry I’m glad to see that your enthusiasm has not waned because of birdchan. It will be interesting to see what you pick to tackle first.

@AuntyChrist

@chockenberry I feel your pain. As I remember, when Tweetdeck was a third-party app it could post to both Twitter and Facebook. The idea of posting and reading from many places is very appealing. It's a shame both Facebook and Twitter only care about official apps. But thank you for all you did as an indy dev.

@chockenberry “Federation exposes a lot of different data sources that you’d want to follow. Not all of these sources will be **Mastodon** instances: you may want to stay up-to-date with someone’s **Micro.blog**, or maybe another person’s **Tumblr**, or someone else’s **photo feed**. There are many **apps** and **servers** for you to choose from.

It feels like the time is right for a truly universal timeline.”

Exciting to hear!!
#Fediverse

@chockenberry I can’t wait to see where you help take the Fediverse 👍🏻

@chockenberry I never tried out Twitter as much as I've tried Mastodon in the past two weeks, but you make sense. I could never see submitting so much control to some company to begin with.

BUT, a quibble. You're rejecting stuff rammed down our throats by corporations, so ... well, we'd finally got where anybody would feel comfortable calling a guy like Musk a bitch, and all of a sudden media trotted out "Karen" (and taught the never-used "Ken") to regenderize the stereotype. Back to bitch!

@chockenberry this 1000 times. Universal cross-service timeline has been on my mind for a while and you guys are best positioned to make that happen. Can’t wait to see what you can do!

@chockenberry yeah, Twitterrific was how I rolled — up until November. Always a joy to use. Happy trails, and may we meet again around the bend.

@chockenberry so sorry to hear you lost your mom. May her memory be a blessing.

@chockenberry I laughed out loud at Space Karen.

@chockenberry

"That’s where I want to be in the future. Exploring unknown territory that empowers others and adapts to the needs of a community."

<-- yes. that's the vibe.

there is so much more that is possible right now.

@chockenberry Condolences Craig - skate to where the puck is going.

@chockenberry I hope you are able to sustain the resolve to be done with the bird site and to channel your energy toward new and different settings, including the #fediverse.

@chockenberry Sorry to hear about you mom and the double loss of your product's ability to function. Grieving is the ability to create something beautiful that you plant in the middle of the what you loss. What flowers is the expression of all the ways you remember what you miss and love.

Many blessings on your journey in places you never expected to be.

@chockenberry I was there. I used to use Twitteriffic back before there were tweets or retweets. Thank you for your work all these years.

@chockenberry I can’t wait to see what you make next.

@chockenberry Man, this was so saddening and enraging to read.

First, I’m so sorry to hear about your mom, Craig. There’s never an easy goodbye, even when you see it coming. Sounds like she was well-loved, and I hope you’re surrounded by friends and family right now.

And, the way they killed off third-party apps is a disgrace. Twitteriffic really did help make Twitter what it was, and I’m mad as hell it ended this way. You all deserved better. Sending you all hugs and molotovs.

@chockenberry i am very sorry for your loss, especially on multiple fronts, and especially because one comes at the hands of a man-child.

@chockenberry long time user of your app. Just wanted to say thanks.

@chockenberry I’m so sorry to hear about your mom. May her memory be a blessing. I’m glad you are here. I enjoyed using twitterific

@chockenberry I really like the idea of an universal timeline. Following…

@chockenberry thanks for that post. I moved to Twitterific because it was the closest thing to Plume, which I worked on for many years, when I moved to iOS.
I do feel the same way about Twitter. It's time to let go what we built for years. And Mastodon is a good opportunity to do it better this time.

@chockenberry I’m so sorry for the really shit time you have had recently. My condolences to you and your family

@chockenberry I’m sorry you had to go through these things at all, let alone on such a compressed timeframe. Thinking of you, your family, and the people at Iconfactory.

@chockenberry Love the idea of the universal timeline. It’s time for something new not just recreating the birdsite on Mastodon.

“Like my mom, the API has been declining for awhile.” that hit heavy.

@chockenberry my condolences on the loss of your mother…

@chockenberry

You describe a service like FriendFeed, which was great until Facebook bought and buried it.

I never used your product but I like the cut of your jib. I'll be following your efforts.

@chockenberry

All the best with your future ventures...