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Comment by alkonaut | Hacker News Reader

I have been on tweetbot for as long as I can remember and can't stand the official apps, how does this work? Are some 3rd party clients blessed by Twitter?

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They basically issued each developer n tokens and the first n people to purchase the app were let through, but no more thereafter.

What genius thought “let’s punish developers in our ecosystem by putting a cap on their lifetime earnings” should be taken out back and summarily executed.

The amount of people who can authenticate (as in, connect to the app once by linking their account) is limited to a certain amount. Developers are / were given a fixed amount of user tokens.

Fixed per app, or fixed per period of time? I.e. does it mean that when I use Tweetbot I'm either a) part of a lucky group of people that authenticated before they "ran out" of tokens, or b) that every time I log in I risk being shut out because too many people authenticated in the last 24h towards their tokens?

I keep recommending everyone to abandon the official apps and use e.g. Tweetbot because the official apps suck compared to 3rd party (commercial messages alone is a dealbreaker) - but do peolpe then take my advice and go download tweetbot only to find they cant auth? That would be bad...

The former.

Fixed per app. I guess Tapbots will take the app out of the store before they hit their token cap.

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