Twitter for Mac quietly got an update today, for the first time in more than a year, adding the new long direct messages feature to the client, but changing nothing else.
The app might as well be abandoned — Twitter has neglected to add support for a number of its new features over the last few years including:
- Twitter video
- GIF support
- Twitter cards
- Twitter music streaming
- Improved quote tweets
- Group direct messages
- Quality mention filters
- Blocking improvements
Why would the company push out an update today to add its latest feature, but not even add one of its other major features in the last year?
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My guess is that Twitter simply gave up on the client when its dedicated developer left last year and adding long direct messages was a simple tweak: remove the character limit.
I had a glimmer of hope today when I saw the update, but was disappointed to see that the company put in the bare-minimum amount of effort. Can we just declare it abandoned now?
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