In our case, we have a search feed for NetNewsWire and we follow mentions. You may not want to engage with Twitter - maybe you’ve even deleted their apps from your iPhone, iPad, and Mac - but you might still want to or need to follow mentions, for instance.

It’s more important than ever, we believe, since it helps people find their off-ramp from Twitter. We have no intention of removing this feature, despite Twitter’s troubles and poor prognosis. It’s an RSS reader, not a full-blown Twitter client, but it does allow you to follow timelines, mentions, and searches. In NetNewsWire 6 we added the ability to follow Twitter in NetNewsWire. However, those feeds will no longer update. You can still read whatever you have already downloaded. If you have any starred items from those feeds, they will remain as long as you don’t delete those feeds. Without free access to that API, we can’t read feeds from Twitter. Since Twitter does not provide RSS feeds, we’ve had to use the Twitter API. Here’s the current draft of the message that will appear in the app:īody: On February 1, 2023, Twitter announced the end of free access to the Twitter API, effective February 9. The plan is that it would appear only for people currently using Twitter integration. We’re planning, with this new release, to have some kind of message on first run that explains what’s happening. You might think we’re reading RSS feeds from Twitter, but Twitter removed RSS feeds from the service something like ten years ago. Because of Twitter’s announcement that free access to the Twitter API will end February 9, we will be removing Twitter integration from NetNewsWire in the next release (6.1.1) for Mac and iOS.

Twitter rss feed