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Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha
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- kacy 14y agoDirect download link :-) http://c401222.r22.cf1.rackcdn.com/Tweetbot.zip http://c401222.r22.cf1.rackcdn.com/Tweetbot.zip
- pdenya 14y agoThanks, site isn't loading.
- alpb 14y agoI was using official Twitter clients on my iPad and Mac. I heard that Tweetbot was slightly handy and useful on iPhone but I believe Twitter for iPad is pretty neat. So should I get this on Mac?
- remi 14y agoYou should try it for yourself. The public alpha is free for everyone.
- natesm 14y agoIt's okay, I guess. It's a lot less smooth when scrolling and animating than Twitter for Mac is, and this trend of Mac apps not looking like Mac apps is really tiring.
- sohn9 14y agoAnd now for the Android version...
- lucianm 14y agoOS X 10.7 or later :/
- whalesalad 14y agoI can't imagine why you'd be on anything else. Especially as a user of Hacker News.
- pdenya 14y agoAny reason you haven't updated?
- younata 14y agobecause snow leopard did things better than lion (much lighter footprint, for one thing).
- bryne 14y agoWell, not bloating your system with a bunch of new and updated programs is certainly a great way to keep your system footprint light.
- smackfu 14y agoIn reality, Apple seems to be ok with releasing new software once it runs fast enough on current hardware. So it might not run that great on old hardware. That's how progress is made but means it might not make much sense to upgrade. My iPhone 4 is definitely pokier on iOS 5 than it was on iOS 4.
- sonar_un 14y agoFor me, my Macbook 1,1 can't install 10.7. :(
- smackfu 14y agoLion doesn't have Rosetta is one decent reason.
- orta 14y agoThen you're really not going to like the fact that the release version will be 10.8 only.
- martingordon 14y agoI had given up on the (practically abandoned) official Twitter for Mac and switched to Osfoora a few months ago. It's been great but I have some minor issues with it (Space pages down instead of up, lack of keyboard shortcuts for interacting with individual tweets). I've found Tweetbot to be rather stable for an alpha release, and I think that Tapbot's strategy in releasing this early is to get people to fall in love with the app ASAP so that everyone will raise hell if Twitter takes action against third-party clients.
- l4u 14y agoAnother keyboard shortcut I miss is j/k for navigating up and down
- emehrkay 14y agoI love tweetbot for ios and it seems to be the same, minus touch-based actions for os x. Is there a new rule with stylized mac apps ignore the double tap to minimize the window action?
- sirn 14y agoBy "double tap" did you mean double clicking on the title bar? Maybe I'm not looking hard enough but I believe that feature is gone in Mountain Lion (the option is no longer there in General prefs).
- emehrkay 14y agoReally? I've grown used to that. Why would that be removed?
- mkaltenecker 14y agoNo, they just moved it to the Dock preference pane.
- sirn 14y agoAh, make sense. Thanks for clearing it up!
- slig 14y agoIf you're looking for an alternative OS X client, I suggest YoruFukurou. Lots of options, filters, multiple accounts, works on 10.6 and feels great.
- dabeeeenster 14y ago+1 Dev pumps out updates with new features regularly too. Plus the icon is awesome.
- dabeeeenster 14y agoOh, and I almost forgot, it supports real time streaming too...
- Tichy 14y agoDoes it do multiple columns, too? With TweetDeck I tend to have lots of columns - all tweets, only best friends, dms, facebook and a running search. Would like to get rid of TweetDeck because it is the only Air application I still have.
- dtsingletary 14y agoTweetDeck is now a Chrome-hosted app. I haven't missed any feature changes between it and the old AIR app.
- arn 14y ago
- egze 14y agoRetina support is good. But why does it force the discrete graphic card? Official Twitter app does it as well for some reason.
- RandallBrown 14y agoI think anything that uses Core Animation will force the discrete graphics card on.
- jenius 14y agoThis is absolutely worth getting for mac. I'm getting far fewer crashes than the official twitter client, a much nicer look, smoother interactions, and more information faster. The killer feature for me is the ability to see the conversation around and replies to one tweet - this is extremely useful if you see one tweet between two people you follow but want to know the context around it, or if you want to see how other people have replied to a particular tweet.
- stevenleeg 14y agoI'm particularly excited for iCloud syncing when it comes out on the app store. It's really nice to have my last read tweet synced across my iPhone, iPad, and soon to be Mac.
- lloeki 14y agoFWIW there's an entry in the prefs regarding syncing, which allows one to use Tweet Marker. Didn't know about that service before.
- smackfu 14y agoYou really get multiple crashes in a day with the official twitter client???
- ComputerGuru 14y agoI (note: I'm not the gp) definitely do. Any time I have an unread notification, if I open up the official Twitter app and try to switch to that tab/page, it'll crash. It'll do so maybe 3 or 4 times in a row, before letting me see that page and mark that tweet as read. It's pretty ridiculous since this has been happening for months on end now, and it didn't use to happen with the initial release. Twitter's OS X dev department just plain sucks - which is especially trying given that ML integrates Twitter into the OS. They need to step their game up ASAP - and definitely allow 3rd party devs and apps into the twitter ecosystem, because theirs just are simply not up to scratch.
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- weslly 14y agoI've been waiting this for a long time, I'm really happy they shipped it.
- hswolff 14y agoI love the alpha level OAuth sequence of kicking you to the browser and then re-launching the app through the application url. :D Digging app a lot so far tho
- novum 14y agoOsfoora for Mac and other desktop twitter clients do this too. I'm fairly certain it's a requirement imposed by Twitter.
- brcrth 14y agoThe lack of notification (my dock is permanently hidden and the app doesn't have a menubar icon) is such a deal breaker for me.
- trentfowler 14y agoThen skip the alpha and wait for notification center
- Spittie 14y agoI don't have a mac, can anyone share some screenshots? I can't find any on their site.
- mapgrep 14y agoI wonder whether fear of a Twitter crackdown on third-party clients played any role in the timing of this. Having an app, even an alpha app, in users' hands would increase the outcry if Twitter were to move against third-party clients like Tweetbot. (Obviously, I mean an outcry in addition to the userbase for the polished iOS client.) This is purely speculative, I admit.
- kylec 14y agoI will say this: I consider myself to be a Tweetbot user, not necessarily a Twitter user. If Twitter cuts Tweetbot off, and Tweetbot integrates with some other Twitter-like service, I will go there. Of course, this is exactly the scenario Twitter fears, but I with this increasing saber-rattling over cracking down on third-party clients I wonder if Twitter is going to cause the thing that they're trying to prevent.
- smackfu 14y agoBut isn't twitter all about following other people? Don't they have to migrate to the new service first?
- nmcfarl 14y agoI personally never read my twitter stream - it’s too noisy and to much of a pain to cull. I read it by proxy prismatic, and news.me. And I mainly use it to post - for those who do read twitter, to the widget on my blog, and to Facebook. I suspect that a replacement twitter could handle the last 2 use cases fine - which are the main point for me.
- tlrobinson 14y agoIf you use Tweetbot on another service and no one is around to hear it does it make a make a tweet?
- daveying99 14y agoYou might be right. Tweetbot for iPhone was launched under similar circumstances - not too long after the first anti-developer statement from Twitter.
- timkeller 14y agoAnyone getting stuck at the "Sign in with Twitter" dialog?
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- zbowling 14y agoI believe it's written with TWUI, the same as Twitter's official Mac client. I know that highlight behavior, custom drawn scroller, and scroll inertia in the scroll view from anywhere. Probably the first big user out side of Twitter to use it publicly. I bet it made porting the iOS code over easy with all the Core Animation the iOS version uses. Edit: Nope. I was wrong. I see the nib files. It's AppKit. They just use a hell of a lot of Core Animation.
- olivercameron 14y agoI'm not so sure it is. The scroll inertia is completely different from Twitter for Mac, and which custom scroll bars?