Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha

http://tapbots.com/blog/tweetbot/tweetbot-for-mac

by jforrest • 14 years ago

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kacy• 14 years ago

Direct download link :-) http://c401222.r22.cf1.rackcdn.com/Tweetbot.zip

pdenya2• 14 years ago

Thanks, site isn't loading.

alpb• 14 years ago

I 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• 14 years ago

You should try it for yourself. The public alpha is free for everyone.

natesm• 14 years ago

It'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.

lucianm• 14 years ago

OS X 10.7 or later :/

pdenya2• 14 years ago

Any reason you haven't updated?

younata• 14 years ago

because snow leopard did things better than lion (much lighter footprint, for one thing).

sonar_un• 14 years ago

For me, my Macbook 1,1 can't install 10.7. :(

smackfu4• 14 years ago

Lion doesn't have Rosetta is one decent reason.

orta• 14 years ago

Then you're really not going to like the fact that the release version will be 10.8 only.

martingordon• 14 years ago

I 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• 14 years ago

Another keyboard shortcut I miss is j/k for navigating up and down

emehrkay2• 14 years ago

I 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?

sirn2• 14 years ago

By "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).

emehrkay2• 14 years ago

Really? I've grown used to that. Why would that be removed?

mkaltenecker• 14 years ago

No, they just moved it to the Dock preference pane.

slig• 14 years ago

If 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.

dabeeeenster2• 14 years ago

+1 Dev pumps out updates with new features regularly too. Plus the icon is awesome.

dabeeeenster2• 14 years ago

Oh, and I almost forgot, it supports real time streaming too...

Tichy4• 14 years ago

Does 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• 14 years ago

TweetDeck is now a Chrome-hosted app. I haven't missed any feature changes between it and the old AIR app.

arn• 14 years ago

Doesn't do columns, but does do multiple tabs. I was reluctant to switch to tabs from columns too, but it's my preferred Mac client now.

Also supports a "mini" tweet view which makes it work more like an email client. http://yfrog.com/oerabxhp

creativityhurts• 14 years ago

YoruFukurou is great and I've been using it for more than a year but I already use Tweetbot for iOS on my iPhone and iPad so switching to Tweetbot for Mac makes perfect sense, especially if you're like me and obsess over synchronization and UI consistency.

egze• 14 years ago

Retina support is good. But why does it force the discrete graphic card? Official Twitter app does it as well for some reason.

RandallBrown• 14 years ago

I think anything that uses Core Animation will force the discrete graphics card on.

jenius• 14 years ago

This 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• 14 years ago

I'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• 14 years ago

FWIW there's an entry in the prefs regarding syncing, which allows one to use Tweet Marker. Didn't know about that service before.

smackfu4• 14 years ago

You really get multiple crashes in a day with the official twitter client???

ComputerGuru• 14 years ago

I (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.

tsieling3• 14 years ago

Multiple per week for me. Often under such taxing conditions as 'posting a tweet' or 'clicking an image.' I really drive these apps too hard ;)

masukomi• 14 years ago

not to suggest the official twitter client is actually good, but you've been able to see the thread for quite a while now. Just double-click on one of the posts in the thread. It's not perfect, but it works most of the time.

conradev• 14 years ago

Only in one direction, though, into the past. Tweetbot allows you to see in both directions by selecting a tweet in the middle of a conversation.

tsieling3• 14 years ago

I have to agree. The Tweetbot alpha is more enjoyable than Twitter's stalled adaptation of Tweetie.

weslly• 14 years ago

I've been waiting this for a long time, I'm really happy they shipped it.

hswolff• 14 years ago

I 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• 14 years ago

Osfoora for Mac and other desktop twitter clients do this too. I'm fairly certain it's a requirement imposed by Twitter.

brcrth• 14 years ago

The 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• 14 years ago

Then skip the alpha and wait for notification center

Spittie2• 14 years ago

I don't have a mac, can anyone share some screenshots? I can't find any on their site.

ihuman• 14 years ago

This article has a bunch of screen-shots. http://9to5mac.com/2012/07/11/quick-review-tweetbot-for-mac-...

Spittie2• 14 years ago

Thanks

mapgrep• 14 years ago

I 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• 14 years ago

I 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.

smackfu4• 14 years ago

But isn't twitter all about following other people? Don't they have to migrate to the new service first?

tlrobinson• 14 years ago

If you use Tweetbot on another service and no one is around to hear it does it make a make a tweet?

daveying99• 14 years ago

You might be right. Tweetbot for iPhone was launched under similar circumstances - not too long after the first anti-developer statement from Twitter.

tankbot• 14 years ago

Could be.

Could also be related to Mountain Lion having Twitter integration all over the place. Seems like that would render all the hours of dev time to create this program pointless unless they can release early and get some market share before ML.

tsieling3• 14 years ago

I'm not sure the two conflict. Twitter integration doesn't offer any kind of twitter browsing experience, only posting from other apps. I use the iOS integration for some posting, but consume and post most of my stuff through Tweetbot on iPad and iPhone.

timkeller• 14 years ago

Anyone getting stuck at the "Sign in with Twitter" dialog?

zbowling• 14 years ago

I 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• 14 years ago

I'm not so sure it is. The scroll inertia is completely different from Twitter for Mac, and which custom scroll bars?

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