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More from Apps of a Feather: 1) Push notifications will no longer arrive 2) Timelines won’t refresh automatically If you use an app like Talon, Tweetbot, Twe

More from Apps of a Feather: 1) Push notifications will no longer arrive 2) Timelines won’t refresh automatically If you use an app like Talon, Tweetbot, Tweetings, or Twitterrific, there is no way for its developer to fix these issues. http://apps-of-a-feather.com/ http://apps-of-a-feather.com/

ymolodtsov 8y ago
I mean, if they had a decent app I wouldn’t worry, but why they offer can’t be compared to Tweetbot and others.
- vcpnt51 8y ago
  What don't you like about the official apps? The iPhone one is good and performant.
  - kalleboo 8y ago
    I switched away from the official app to get away from the "algos" that keep surfacing content that's either old or I'm not following. No I didn't miss those tweets, and I don't care what someone else liked. Stop turning Twitter into Facebook! I'm sure it increases your engagement metrics, but at some point I'll feel overengaged, realize how much time I'm wasting and quit the app completely.
    - Groxx 8y ago
      Same here. Algos surfacing stuff I don't care about at all (and can't turn off!), and I've run across enough instances of the official app/page not showing me some tweets (checked exhaustively for a couple days of tweets around the ones it missed, couldn't find) that I've utterly dropped the official clients. Talon supports the use-case I care about: reading all the tweets from people I follow because I care about them. Twitter and Facebook both make this nearly impossible, so I don't use them directly.
joelrunyon 8y ago
So tweetbot is dead then? Why can't twitter make a decent app on it's own? This shouldn't be complicated...
- ihuman 8y ago
  They're not dead, they just can't offer push notifications, or automatically update your timeline when there's a new tweet. Nothing else in Tweetbot will have to change.
  - joelrunyon 8y ago
    So that kills a lot of the point of the app?
    - MBCook 8y ago
      I don’t think so. Even with those limitations I’ll be way happier using it than the official one or a web page.
    - ihuman 8y ago
      It doesn't. There's no replacement for push notifications besides using the official app, but you can still manually refresh the timeline (via pull-to-refresh).
- wmeredith 8y ago
  *its They don't want to make a decent app. They've bought great apps and shuttered them. They want you to use the web client.
  - menacingly 8y ago
    It's become slightly boorish to correct grammar and spelling. It signals pedantry, and sets a tedious tone for the rest of your comment.
  - jwilliams 8y ago
    > They want you to use the web client. I use the web app version exclusively -- based on that I don't agree. Both the Twitter and Facebook Android/iOS web applications constantly push you to download the native client. They even get demanding sometimes. They want to be able to send you push notifications.

ymolodtsov 8y ago

I mean, if they had a decent app I wouldn’t worry, but why they offer can’t be compared to Tweetbot and others.

vcpnt51 8y ago
What don't you like about the official apps? The iPhone one is good and performant.
- kalleboo 8y ago
  I switched away from the official app to get away from the "algos" that keep surfacing content that's either old or I'm not following. No I didn't miss those tweets, and I don't care what someone else liked. Stop turning Twitter into Facebook! I'm sure it increases your engagement metrics, but at some point I'll feel overengaged, realize how much time I'm wasting and quit the app completely.
  - Groxx 8y ago
    Same here. Algos surfacing stuff I don't care about at all (and can't turn off!), and I've run across enough instances of the official app/page not showing me some tweets (checked exhaustively for a couple days of tweets around the ones it missed, couldn't find) that I've utterly dropped the official clients. Talon supports the use-case I care about: reading all the tweets from people I follow because I care about them. Twitter and Facebook both make this nearly impossible, so I don't use them directly.

joelrunyon 8y ago

So tweetbot is dead then? Why can't twitter make a decent app on it's own? This shouldn't be complicated...

ihuman 8y ago
They're not dead, they just can't offer push notifications, or automatically update your timeline when there's a new tweet. Nothing else in Tweetbot will have to change.
- joelrunyon 8y ago
  So that kills a lot of the point of the app?
  - MBCook 8y ago
    I don’t think so. Even with those limitations I’ll be way happier using it than the official one or a web page.
  - ihuman 8y ago
    It doesn't. There's no replacement for push notifications besides using the official app, but you can still manually refresh the timeline (via pull-to-refresh).
wmeredith 8y ago
*its They don't want to make a decent app. They've bought great apps and shuttered them. They want you to use the web client.
- menacingly 8y ago
  It's become slightly boorish to correct grammar and spelling. It signals pedantry, and sets a tedious tone for the rest of your comment.
- jwilliams 8y ago
  > They want you to use the web client. I use the web app version exclusively -- based on that I don't agree. Both the Twitter and Facebook Android/iOS web applications constantly push you to download the native client. They even get demanding sometimes. They want to be able to send you push notifications.