Twitter’s Mac app recently got an update, introducing support for inline GIFs, videos, quote-tweets and other features that have already existed on other platforms for ages. While many users were ecstatic at finally being able to quote-tweet Kim Kardashian from their Macs, a far greater number of users lamented the bugs that accompanied the update, from laggy scrolling to login issues and the repetition of old notifications, wondering what had gone so wrong. And there’s an answer: Twitter didn’t have a hand in the update.
According to Jonathan Wight, a former employee at Twitter, development of the Mac app was outsourced to a third party.
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While Twitter hasn’t formally confirmed this yet (outsourcing is rarely advertised), it does mark an improvement for the future of the Mac app; previously only one person was working on its development as opposed to a whole team.
People familiar with the matter confirmed to The Verge that it may have been outsourced to a developer called Black Pixel, whose clients include ESPN, Starbucks and The New York Times.
In other social media related news, these weren’t the only buggy things to occur around the New Year. WhatsApp faced worldwide outages on New Year’s Eve as users overloaded the servers with well wishes and uplifting videos that had Adele playing in the background. Facebook was also the victim of a bug that started congratulating users on 46 years of friendship with other users, which is quite strange since Facebook isn’t even 15 years old; it’s nice to know they have the long game down pat.
https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/682599591523553281
Source: The Verge
