And it’s likely that those users have only been able to use another equally feature-rich Twitter client on another platform: Tweetbot.
TWEETBOT WIDGET FOR MAC
The problem is, there is a whole segment of Twitter for Mac users that, like me, have been stuck with Tweetie’s paradigms and features for more or less three years now, as other desktop apps – while promising – have always lacked that feature or two that would make them a must-have.
TWEETBOT WIDGET SOFTWARE
On OS X, there aren’t as many Twitter third-party apps as on iOS, but still software like Twitterrific, Hibari and Osfoora have provided good options to users looking outside the classic Tweetie environment. The saddest part, however, is that in spite of its current state and overall “what could have been” feeling attached to it, Twitter for Mac still is, for many, the best shot at a decent native Twitter experience on the Mac. And then with the release of the Retina MacBook Pro, Twitter’s lack of support for high-res text and graphics became the proverbial final nail in the coffin of what used to be a great app. It only got worse recently: after many updates to Lion, Twitter for Mac has started showing new bugs and glitches that haven’t been fixed by Twitter, alongside the ones that have always been there and were never corrected. You would think it’s in Twitter’s best interest to keep a native client up to date with the latest features of the service and yet, after a solid first version – which came after years of speculation on Tweetie 2 – Twitter started ignoring the app, failing to bring several of Twitter’s new features (such as inline media and updated search) to the desktop. Gimme ShelterĮver since Loren Brichter (creator of the original Tweetie, who sold his app to Twitter and went on to work there) left the company, Twitter for Mac – what I had deemed as the best Twitter client for OS X – fell into an unexplainable state of abandon and lack of updates.
However, I have been testing Tweetbot for the past week, and I can say that it already is the best Twitter client available on the Mac.
TWEETBOT WIDGET FULL
This is not a final review of the app: being in the development stage – albeit ready to be tested by the public – Tweetbot for Mac is still lacking several features that will be available in the final Mac App Store version (such as iCloud sync and Notification Center support), and for this reason I’ll save my full analysis of the app for the future.
Now you can also customize this gesture to open link to tweet, copy link to tweet, copy tweet text, add to reading list, or be disabled completely.Today, Tapbots released the first public alpha of Tweetbot for Mac.
By default, tapping the status bar will bring you to the top of your timeline.
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