Tweetbot for Mac is now available for the price of the Mountain Lion OS, in the Mac App Store. Tapbots, have also given the reason for pricing the app too high.
Tweetbot is probably the most awaited app on the Mac for Twitter. And today, it finally saw the light after facing some issues with the Twitter’s API changes, which restricted third party applications from using their API. The Tweetbot for Mac is priced at $19.99, which is equivalent to the Mountain Lion OS from Apple.
The new Tweetbot for Mac comes with some amazingly well thought out features and user interface features, and the app has been in public beta for so long. Though many users are not happy about the pricing, Tapbot has given some reasons for pricing the app so high:
Because of Twitter’s recent enforcement of token limits, we only have a limited number of tokens available for Tweetbot for Mac. These tokens dictate how many users Tweetbot for Mac can have. The app’s limit is separate from, but much smaller than, the limit for Tweetbot for iOS. Once we use up the tokens granted to us by Twitter, we will no longer be able to sell the app to new users. Tapbots will continue to support Tweetbot for Mac for existing customers at that time.
This limit and our desire to continue to support the app once we sell out is why we’ve priced Tweetbot for Mac a little higher than we’d like. It’s the best thing we can do for the long term viability of the product.