Twitter officially kills off key features in third-party apps

After years of warnings and several delays, Twitter finally made good today on its promise to kill off key features of popular streaming apps. In a blog post today, Twitter said it would remove access to APIs needed to power push notifications and an auto-refreshing timeline. Rob Johnson, a director of product, said Twitter would stop supporting those APIs so it could focus on its own native applications.
The changes affect popular third-party Twitter apps including Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Talo