{"id":249163,"date":"2018-02-17T08:15:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T06:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=249163"},"modified":"2018-02-17T08:16:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T06:16:12","slug":"twitter-kills-its-mac-desktop-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/249163-twitter-kills-its-mac-desktop-client.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter kills its Mac desktop client"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has announced that it will no longer support its Mac desktop client.<\/p>\n<p>The company said this decision is a result of its effort to create a consistent experience across all platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter announced that it will drop support for the Mac desktop client in 30 days, and the Twitter for Mac app is no longer listed in the Mac App Store.<\/p>\n<p>The company recommended that Mac users visit Twitter using a web browser instead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We&#8217;re focusing our efforts on a great Twitter experience that&#8217;s consistent across platforms. So, starting today the Twitter for Mac app will no longer be available for download, and in 30 days will no longer be supported.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterSupport\/status\/964635739517407232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/248220-twitter-posts-first-profit.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Twitter posts first profit<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has announced that it will no longer support its Mac desktop client.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":106057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[605,48963,2120,405],"class_list":["post-249163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-apple","tag-desktop-client","tag-mac","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249165,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249163\/revisions\/249165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}