Tweetbot for Mac has just received a new update with several important bug fixes. The Android client for the most popular social network. Social network for gays with more to it than just meeting people. Twitter client for Android. Acceptable Ads is a program involving the popular adblockers Adblock Plus and Adblock, whereby companies can have their ads deemed 'acceptable' if they meet certain format criteria. These ads are then unblocked and any company operating above a certain threshold must agree to pay Eyeo, the owner of Adblock Plus, a fee of 30% of the resulting.
Chaim Gartenberg, writing for The Verge:
Ifinance 4 v4 5 5. We've known for a few months that Twitter is going to further limit third-party apps starting on August 16th when it rolls out some major API changes. But now we're starting to see the effects of those upcoming changes, starting with the popular third-party Twitter app Twitterific, which announced an update today preparing for the removal of two major features: push notifications and live-updating tweets.
This is the beginning of the end of Twitter for me. Jack is bereft of reality and doing everything he possibly can to screw over Twitter's most engaged and loyal users, while at the same time shipping a terrible app on just a few platforms.
Oh, before I forget: Fuck you, Jack!
The CMO at Twitter, Leslie Berland, has announced a substantial rebrand intended to reflect the experience of using the site. The move was announced on the platform first and later confirmed on its blog.
Twitter hopes the visual identity will 'fully reflect the complexity, fluidity, and power of the conversations today.'
The instantly recognizable bird logomark stays, as does the inoffensive tech-blue. But everything else has been grunged up.
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rather than build the system up from each component part or build around a specific element, we embarked upon building a creative design system that's intentionally imperfect
— Donna Lamar, Global ECD, Twitter
There's a brand new custom typeface named 'Chirp' designed in collaboration with Grilli Type. It mixes features of gothics and grotesques with hipster-friendly quirks and replaces the decidedly corporate Helvetica.
The most visually arresting elements are the print-inspired collages, faux-print effects, and distress marks. It's a move away from the safe, minimal style that has dominated the design industry for more than a decade.
There are layers of bill posters torn off in pieces revealing text beneath, macroscopic views of people, and an all-pervading effortless cool. Think Paris, on a Sunday morning, circa 1997.
It's exciting to see a major brand strike out in a new direction, particularly one that isn't Google-derived. There's plenty of energy in the new artwork, but it doesn't escape notice that this is a surface level restyle; the core design remains.
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Is this a glimpse of design over the next few years: a braver, irreverent, and decidedly less-corporate style of corporate design? Or, a misstep we'll all forget as soon as Material Design 3.0 is released?
