Today, Tweetbot for Mac was released. Due to Twitter limiting API tokens, Tweetbot is priced at $20.
Even though people on Twitter are complaining about the price, blame Twitter, not Tapbots.
I agree with John Gruber;
I’m happy to pay for quality work.
You can see Tapbots blog post about the release of Tweetbot for Mac and why it is priced at $20, here.
“As some of you may have already noticed the download link for the Tweetbot for Mac alpha no longer works. Twitter’s latest API Changes means now we have a large but finite limit on the number of user tokens we can get for Tweetbot for Mac. We’ve been working with Twitter over the last few days to try to work around this limit for the duration of the beta but have been unable to come up with solution that was acceptable to them. Because of this we’ve decided its best for us to pull the alpha.”
Even though Tweetbot for Mac is in alpha, it's much better than Twitter for Mac. Twitter, if you don't want us using third-party clients, fix your own.