Twitter icon, pre-X
Previously essential social app, Twitter for Mac is not seen within the Mac App Retailer, however you would nonetheless use the X iPad app on Apple Silicon.
The Elon Musk period’s altering of Twitter to X has seemingly claimed one other sufferer. This time, it is the Twitter app made for macOS.
Noticed by developer “Vedant” on X, the Twitter app for Mac isn’t seen within the Mac App Retailer.
AppleInsider used a wide range of search phrases masking each Twitter and X, however failed to seek out the app in any respect. Makes an attempt utilizing the previously-used URL additionally present the app as unavailable.
The change implies that present customers of Twitter for Mac will nonetheless be capable of apply it to the Mac, till X decides to terminate entry to its service. Nevertheless, new customers are unable to obtain it.
The lack of the power to get the Mac app follows a 12 months and a half after Twitter killed off entry for third-party consumer apps to make use of the service. As a substitute, customers had to make use of Twitter/X’s personal apps.
For X customers who nonetheless wish to learn and make posts on their Mac, they’ve a couple of decisions. There’s at all times entry by an internet browser, however they might additionally use the iPad X app on Apple Silicon Macs.