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Re: Tweetbot

#11

Not sure if I'm missing the difference between this and the official Twitter client. They basically took the official client and reskinned it. I'm not a fan of the Tapbots style, so maybe it's not aimed at me, but I much prefer the cleaner official client.

The differences are there; superficially, all clients display tweets in a timeline, and provide the functionality that Twitter.com does. The differences abound, though. Check out http://shawnblanc.net/2011/04/tweetbot-review/ for more.

Re: Tweetbot

#16

I'm surprised they still released this after the twitter "don't build clients" email from a few months back.

It took them more than a couple months to build this, and they've already made quite a bit of bank. Why wouldn't they release this?

Re: Tweetbot

#18
I love the hell out of the GUI and I'm a tapbot fan.

However, I've found myself swiping for conversations only to find there were none.

It's especially true of high volume tweeters like @acarvin because it splits the conversation up.

Possible Solution?: If it could pre-load ahead and save me the multiple instances of finding nothing.

Re: Tweetbot

#19
post #11

Not sure if I'm missing the difference between this and the official Twitter client. They basically took the official client and reskinned it. I'm not a fan of the Tapbots style, so maybe it's not aimed at me, but I much prefer the cleaner official client.

The differences are there; superficially, all clients display tweets in a timeline, and provide the functionality that Twitter.com does. The differences abound, though. Check out http://shawnblanc.net/2011/04/tweetbot-review/ for more.

I see some minor differences, but I don't think they're good ones. It's not just the timeline, the search screen is almost identical, etc, etc. I don't think there's enough here for non-echo chamber users.

I don't know what the name of the Tapbots style is, but it's a little heavy for my tastes.

On the plus side, it definitely has more personality than the official client (which has lost personality over time -- though the iPad app is pure genius), but the UI/UX is over done, IMHO.

Each to their own. :)

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