Twitter offered a dedicated app for Mac for several years but dropped support for it in 2018 and instead pointed users toward the web version of the service. A year later, however, Twitter for Mac returned with a new version of the app based on Apple’s Catalyst platform and the app’s iPad codebase.
Admittedly, the pre-Musk version of Twitter wasn’t always great about keeping Twitter for Mac updated. Still, according to App Store version history, the app received pretty regular updates. The current lack of updates – from Musk’s acquisition in October to now – is the longest gap in at least the past 18 months, according to the App Store.
The last update to Twitter for Mac was on October 7, 2022. Musk’s completed his acquisition of Twitter on October 27, 2022, and layoffs began almost immediately.
As it stands today, Twitter for Mac lacks several Twitter features offered by the web and mobile versions. This includes support for Twitter Spaces, the ability to sign up for Twitter subscriptions from creators, any support for Twitter Blue and its exclusive features, and more.
Even beyond missing features, Twitter for Mac is growing increasingly buggy and unreliable. Users have complained of an increased number of crashes, failed timeline updates, and posting failures. Even for users who are happy that Twitter for Mac is rid of some of Musk’s questionable feature changes and additions, the overall reliability of the app is a problem.
