Twitter says a bug in macOS 10.15.1 aka Catalina stops users of the social network's desktop Mac app from entering certain letters in account password fields.
Here's the quick and easy way to log out of Twitter. How to log out of Twitter on a computer. Go to and log into your account. If your previous login is still active. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Twitter desktop free download - Desktop Twitter, Twitter Desktop Notification and Preview URLs, Twitter, and many more programs. Enter to Search. My Profile Logout. Lastly, a big reason why using the desktop is better is because it’s a bigger screen with higher resolution to allow you to see photos bigger, enjoy being able to see more tweets at once, etc. If you’re on a high resolution PC or Mac then you can see the photos in a better resolution than some smartphones. Get Twitter Desktop On iPhone. Download this app from Microsoft Store for Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, Windows 10 Team (Surface Hub), HoloLens. See screenshots, read the latest customer reviews, and compare ratings for Twitter.
When attempting to type their passwords into the application to log in, some characters are ignored, specifically 'b', 'l', 'm', 'r', and 't'. That would make it impossible to submit passwords using those keys to sign into Twitter accounts; pass phrases can be cut'n'pasted just fine.
According to Twitter in-house developer Nolan O'Brien, these particular keypresses are gobbled up by a regression associated with the operating system's shortcut support. Normally, users can press those aforementioned keys as shortcuts within the app to perform specific actions, such as 't' to open a box to compose a new tweet.
Something changed within macOS to capture those shortcut keys, rather than pass them to the password field in the user interface as expected. So, in other words, when you press a shortcut key in Twitter when entering an account password, the keypress is ignored in that context rather than handled as a legit password keypress.
Other programs may also be similarly affected.
Here's how O'Brien put it, referring to Apple's UIKit API:
Root cause is Catalina regression that fails keyboard inputs when a UIKeyCommand is registered for the same key. UIResponder chain regression most likely.
— Nolan O'Brien (@NolanOBrien) October 30, 2019And here's a video of the regression in action:
Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field. Not special characters. Regular letters. pic.twitter.com/QMDJyc4uRO
— Mike [Zom]Beasley ?♂️ (@MikeBeas) October 30, 2019![Twitter Twitter](/uploads/1/1/7/8/117874119/588500047.png)
Not LibreOffice too? Beloved open-source suite latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina
READ MORE![Twitter For Desktop Mac Twitter For Desktop Mac](/uploads/1/1/7/8/117874119/664904077.jpg)
There's no word yet on when a patch for the issue might be out. Apple did not respond to a request for comment. Chalk this up as another potential weird bug of the week.
This is one of several headaches that Mac fans who opted to update to Catalina are having to deal with in the early days of Apple's latest OS edition.
Developers have lamented the sorry quality of the release, in some cases even likening it to Windows Vista, while users have reported a number of performance and stability bugs introduced by the update.
Those who have not yet updated to macOS 10.15 may want to hold off for a bit longer while both Cupertino and third-party devs iron out most of the wrinkles in the platform. ®
PS: Apple's fiscal 2019 full-year financial numbers were out on Wednesday: $55bn profit, down seven per cent year-on-year, off $260bn in sales, down two per cent, in the 12 months to calendar September 28.
Twitter For Desktop App
Get ourTech Resources