The developers of Twitterrific — one of the oldest third-party Twitter apps around — have launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a “reboot of Twitterrific for Mac.”

Twitterrific for Mac was first released back in 2007, but as Twitter began to limit third-party developers’ abilities, Twitterrific for Mac fell to the wayside. Developer Iconfactory focused its attention on the more popular iOS version; the last time Twitterrific for Mac received an update was December 2nd, 2013.

The new application is being developed under the codename Project Phoenix (because Twitterrific’s logo is a colorful blue bird named Ollie and phoenixes are birds that come back to life and okay you get it). The goal is not at have feature parity with the iOS…

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