
You can even see their ad server in action on The Iconfactory website and see relevant details like current campaigns, advertisers, impressions and taps, device taps and more. In contrast to Search Ads on App Store, The Iconfactory's recent campaign for its excellent sketching app Linea cost about $0.21 per tap. They have a paper that provides detailed ad metrics and information.Īds are shown prominently at the top of the timeline.įor comparison's sake, Apple's own estimate for cost-per-tap with Search Ads is $0.50. The Iconfactory takes care of ad design based on a client's input and rest assured they take special care to ensure every ad works well in both the dark and light theme.

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The solution is free of invasive user tracking and, most importantly, ads are seen by people who appreciate good design in iPhone and iPad apps (by the way, 85 percent of Twitterrific's iOS user base is on iPhone and 15 percent uses the app on iPad).Īnyone who wants to advertise on the Twitterrific network can pay for their campaign via PayPal.

The ad is displayed for 50 seconds at a time and each ad runs for a month. We know that margins are tight on iOS and that there's often not a lot of money available to market your product. We prefer to serve smaller developers with great products instead of big brands that are just trying to get bigger. That's just $0.10 per tap, which is a fantastic value. What’s more, we take care of creating the ad for you ourselves and even provide App Analytics for iOS or Google Analytics for websites. For that price we guarantee 1,000 tap-throughs-not impressions but actual visits-to your App Store page or website. Now you can advertise your app, website, product or service on Twitterrific’s expansive network of tech-savvy users for just $100 a month. Twitterrific's co-creator Gedeon Maheux announced the news yesterday: That's why they've embraced a fairer business model. The ad impression alone is misleading as it doesn't tell you anything beyond the number of times an ad was shown to the user. However, nothing can be said for certain as of now, since Twitter and Elon Musk have so far remained tight-lipped on the matter.The Iconfactory, the brains behind Twitterrific, the elegant Twitter client for iPhone, iPad and Mac, has created their own advertising service which lets other developers promote their warez directly on Twitterrific for just $100 a month. Assuming the outage is intentional, killing third-party Twitter apps might be a step in that direction since Twitter gets no money out of such services.

It is no secret that Elon Musk wants to drastically increase Twitter’s revenue. Bearing this in mind, speculation is abound that Twitter may be deliberately suspending third-party clients’ access to the platform, stifling the apps in the process. Interestingly, it appears only full-fledged Twitter clients are experiencing issues, as services/applications that use Twitter APIs in a limited way, for instance for authentication, haven’t had any problems. Paul also hoped that “whatever is going on at Twitter is just some automated spam protection bot that is incorrectly suspending proper apps, or something similar”. Paul Haddad, one of the developers of Tweetbot, shared that there has been no official communication from Twitter regarding the situation. Per Twitterrific, the “root cause” remains unknown. Twitter’s official mobile client has been working fine.Īs of this time, no one knows whether the outage is unintentional or a targeted attack on third-party Twitter clients. Popular clients like Fenix, Tweetbot, Twitterrific, and Talon are all having issues. While the actual cause remains unclear, the outage could be the result of Twitter APIs not working correctly for the affected apps.

The issue seems widespread and plagues many apps on mobile as well as desktop platforms.ĩto5Google reports that users first started encountering the problem at 11 PM ET on January 12 when their third-party clients stopped working. If you can’t access Twitter from a third-party app, you aren’t alone, as it appears almost all major third-party clients for Twitter are down.
