Twitter icon, pre-X
Formerly a must-have social app, Twitter for Mac is no longer visible in the Mac App Store, but you could still use the X iPad app on Apple Silicon.
The Elon Musk era’s changing of Twitter to X has seemingly claimed another victim. This time, it’s the Twitter app made for macOS.
Spotted by developer “Vedant” on X, the Twitter app for Mac is not visible in the Mac App Store.
AppleInsider used a variety of search terms covering both Twitter and X, but failed to find the app at all. Attempts using the previously-used URL also show the app as unavailable.
The change means that existing users of Twitter for Mac will still be able to use it on the Mac, until X decides to terminate access to its service. However, new users are unable to download it.
The loss of the ability to get the Mac app follows a year and a half after Twitter killed off access for third-party client apps to use the service. Instead, users had to use Twitter/X’s own apps.
For X users who still want to read and make posts on their Mac, they have a few choices. There’s always access by a web browser, but they could also use the iPad X app on Apple Silicon Macs.
