Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Tweetbot pirates are naming and shaming themselves on Twitter

Tweetbot Pirate Shaming

Tweetbot is generally considered the best third-party Twitter client for iOS users, though its $2.99 price point is a bit more expensive than the free official Twitter client. Lots of users find that to be a fair price, but that hasn't stopped jailbroken iPhone users from pirating the app — so developer Tapbots has decided to bite back, According to Gizmodo UK , pirated copies of Tweetbot automatically insert an embarrassing admission into the app's tweet compose field, which you can see below.





A quick search on Twitter shows a surprisingly high number of tweets with this default text, despite the...


Continue reading…






via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/27/4035406/tweetbot-pirates-are-naming-and-shaming-themselves-on-twitter

No comments:

Post a Comment