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The problem with the Twitter ecosystem right now is that all the other Twitter client developers have more or less given up. Birdfeed was the second best Twitt

by pclark 16y ago

The problem with the Twitter ecosystem right now is that all the other Twitter client developers have more or less given up. Birdfeed was the second best Twitter client during the great iPhone Twitter client wars. This has since been acquired by Brizzly and has fallen into a niche irrelevant (to me) market. Twitter (Tweetie) is now junk thanks to the new trends popup ("#dickbar") and shockingly the Twitter CEO seems to have missed - or, probably - be ignoring the blatant fact that the first 250,000 Tweetie users fell for that client because it was beautifully crafted. Tweetie was alongside Delicious Library and a few other pieces of software that was as close to art meets practically in software. Now, Twitter Inc chooses to add features based on what their company directives are, or "for the greater good" of the community - which might be all well and good, but the vocal people who use Tweetie/Twitter now have nowhere to go (as everyone else has given up.) The most offensive thing about this entire saga is that it is the "early adopter" users of Twitter - the people that were using Tweetie 1 and such, were the Twitter die hard fans - remember when Twitter would die during the Apple keynotes? and now Twitter Inc is happy to ignore them for their millions of Justin Beiber fans.

olivercameron 16y ago
Very much agreed. I wonder how Loren feels about the change to what is essentially, his baby.
- pclark 16y ago
  Porsches have fantastic suspension. ;)
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rufo 16y ago
I completely disagree; if anything, I feel there's more relevant competition going on then there's been in a while. Certainly when Tweetie was on top, I feel like there was very little good competition, although I never checked out Birdfeed. I'm currently using Echofon - it's not the prettiest, but it was the first native Mac client to support User Streams, does some really smart stuff with its conversation view, and actually syncs the last-read tweet between devices - something I've wanted for years now. Twitteriffic 3 on iOS was my previous favorite, and I still love how simple and elegant it is. I think 4 on Mac shows promise, but needs more functionality before I switch to it. I know several people who are using Oosfora, which I haven't looked at at all. I don't like it, but I know TweetDeck is still popular (especially amongst super-popular Twitter users). The question is, are there enough people who want an alternative to the official apps for there to be a market? The answer to that is still up in the air, but I have a feeling the third-party client sales have been pretty good the past few days.

by pclark 16y ago

olivercameron 16y ago

Very much agreed. I wonder how Loren feels about the change to what is essentially, his baby.

pclark 16y ago
Porsches have fantastic suspension. ;)
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rufo 16y ago

I completely disagree; if anything, I feel there's more relevant competition going on then there's been in a while. Certainly when Tweetie was on top, I feel like there was very little good competition, although I never checked out Birdfeed. I'm currently using Echofon - it's not the prettiest, but it was the first native Mac client to support User Streams, does some really smart stuff with its conversation view, and actually syncs the last-read tweet between devices - something I've wanted for years now. Twitteriffic 3 on iOS was my previous favorite, and I still love how simple and elegant it is. I think 4 on Mac shows promise, but needs more functionality before I switch to it. I know several people who are using Oosfora, which I haven't looked at at all. I don't like it, but I know TweetDeck is still popular (especially amongst super-popular Twitter users). The question is, are there enough people who want an alternative to the official apps for there to be a market? The answer to that is still up in the air, but I have a feeling the third-party client sales have been pretty good the past few days.