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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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).
In 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.
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.
This is purely speculative, I admit.