It’s a very speedy app and I can see a lot of potential in it. It’s not necessary I guess to have it, but I like to check a new followers tweet history sometimes just to make sure that that user isn’t a spam bot or isn’t an user that just has RSS feeds posting to their stream.ĭespite those two major omissions, that didn’t stop me from making Tweetbot my default Twitter app this weekend. Most of the other Twitter apps when viewing someone’s profile also gives you the option of viewing just their tweet stream. The developers have already stated that they are adding this in a future update but until then, those who really need push notifications may want to hold off buying this app until then or use something like Boxcar.Īnother feature that seems to be missing from Tweetbot is the ability to see a specific user’s tweet history. You would never know when anyone DM’s you or sends you a reply unless you physically checked the app. Without it, Tweetbot is virtually useless to anyone who doesn’t manually check Twitter on a regular basis. This is a major feature to be missing considering that almost every other Twitter app out there has it. One of the biggest features missing is push notifications. Now, there are a few features missing from Tweetbot that just can’t be overlooked. Again, not a bad thing because the official Twitter app is still my favorite to use. I”m glad Tweetbot includes this feature.Īs you can see, Tweetbot does include a lot of the standard features that are already included with the official Twitter app. I’ve always found lists to be a useful feature in filtering only the tweets I want to see. This is quite useful because I have a lot of people I follow separated into different lists depending on who they are and what their relation is to me. Tweetbot also allows you to view specific lists you have setup. Double tapping links within a tweet will open those links up to view. Swiping to the right allows you to view the conversation, but only between you and the user. If you swipe a tweet to the left, you can also see all the related tweets as well. Tapping on a tweet brings down a little menu item that allows you to reply, retweet, favorite, view the tweet in its entirety with the option to view other related tweets, and other miscellaneous settings. It also has the handy feature of being able to pull down the main timeline to refresh it. The timeline seems to refresh quickly every time you open the app. Other nice design elements include shortcut gestures, a handy “New Tweets” bar that pops up at the top to let you know how many new tweets you received since the last update, and a way to see an entire conversation you had with a specific user.Īs far as features goes, Tweetbot does almost everything you need a Twitter app to do. That’s not a bad thing though as I think the official app is one of the better looking apps out there. It actually has a few things in common with the official Twitter app and if you just gave it a a passing glance, you might think it was. There aren’t any fancy graphics, just a nice, clean interface. There are only a couple of buttons up top, a search menu below that, and a row of buttons at the bottom. The user interface is very clean and there is nothing distracting you from the main timeline. I mainly stick to the official Twitter app because of the clean user interface and long list of built in features. In this review, I’m mainly going to focus on the many positives this app has to offer as well as a few features that are missing and some general improvements I’d like to see from what I consider to be one of the better looking Twitter apps on the iPhone.Īs I said above, I consider Tweetbot to be one of the better looking Twitter apps that isn’t the official Twitter app. Tapboto just needs to polish it up a bit and add a few more features to it, but most of this they already know. Although Tweetbot has a few freshman issues, the app itself has a lot of potential and has the possibility of becoming one of the better twitter apps out there. In fact, it’s expected that there would be a few issues here and there with first releases of apps and Tweetbot is no exception. I’m going to start off this review by saying that because this is a version 1.0 release, it’s not really expected that it will have all the features that some of the more seasoned apps have. Tweetbot is a new Twitter app from developer Tapbots.
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