And some of the developers have responded:
After June 19th, 2018, “streaming services” at Twitter will be removed. This means two things for third-party apps:
- Push notifications will no longer arrive
- Timelines won’t refresh automatically – apps-of-a-feather.com
Twitter has always had a strange relationship with developers of third-party clients, with certain features never even making it into their hands. A quick example would be Polls. They don’t show up on apps like Tweetbot, because they don’t know they exist.
I’m not so sure how much of a loss timeline streaming would be, but push notifications?!
Maybe this is time for more people to check out Micro.blog.