TWiM is a new (free) iPhone app that turns Twitter direct messages into an instant messaging service.

It comes with an iMessage-like interface, support for rich links, interactive notifications, 3D Touch and even SiriKit. Simply say “Send a message to Craig with TwIM,” and Siri will ask what you want to tell Craig about your busted-ass Mac Pro.

I don’t know about other people, but I rarely use Twitter DMs. iMessage and Slack are how I communicate with most people, but TWiM is so well done, I’m keeping it around and have turned off DM notifications in Tweetbot.

Last week, Instapaper experienced a big outage that left users without access to the service for more than a day. They were able to get the service back up and running within 31 hours, with a full recovery taking place just this morning.

I — like many other Instapaper users — were worried over this. The service has changed hands a few times, and I wondered if it was time to look for another read-it-later service.

I didn’t want to change services. I’ve used Instapaper since the very early days of the App Store, and it’s been in the same spot on my iPhone home screen for years and years. Plus, no other solution out there works the way I want to work.

This morning, Brian Donohue, the lead developer on Instapaper wrote an in-depth post-mortem on the outage. In it, he explains what went wrong, but it’s the way he closed the post that jumped out me:

I take full responsibility for the incident and the downtime. While the information about the 2TB limitation wasn’t directly available to me, it’s my responsibility to understand the limitations of the technologies I’m using in my day-to-day operations, even if those technologies are hosted by another company. Additionally, I take responsibility for the lack of an appropriate disaster recovery plan and will be working closely with Pinterest’s Site Reliability Engineering team to ensure we have a process in place to recover from this type of failure in the event it ever happens again.

It’s encouraging to see someone take such responsibility for their work, especially when things go wrong. I will continue to use Instapaper, knowing its in good hands.

The Iconfactory has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund development of a new version of its Mac Twitter client:

Twitterrific for Mac was first released 10 years ago way back in 2007 and had regular updates until 2013. Development of Twitterrific has continued exclusively on iOS since then, but many of us still use Twitterrific on the desktop – despite it missing many recent Twitter features and Twitterrific for iOS refinements. It is time we fixed this, but we need your help!

If funded at the $75,000 goal, Twitterrific for Mac will be a minimal Twitter client. If the stretch goal of $100,000 is hit, these features will be included:

• Direct messaging
• Read, create, delete saved searches
• Read lists
• Built-in Twitter search
• Built-in quick media viewer (images, GIFs, videos)
• Built-in conversation and threaded tweet viewer
• Built-in viewer for user profiles
• Alt-text attachment when tweeting images
• Searching for and getting suggested users while composing

I’d argue that most of those features should be part of any Twitter client, so I’m hoping that they can hit that $100,000.

While I’ve been a happy Tweetbot user for a long time, I backed this. Twitterrific was a great Mac app, and some real competition in this space would be good for everyone.