Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha • Hacker News Board

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?

Re: Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha

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Post by natesm » Wed, Jul 11, 2012, 5:38 PM UTC

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.

Re: Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha

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Post by remi » Wed, Jul 11, 2012, 5:39 PM UTC

alpb wrote: post #4

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?

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

Re: Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha

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Post by pdenya » Wed, Jul 11, 2012, 5:43 PM UTC

kacy wrote: post #3

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

Thanks, site isn't loading.

Re: Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha

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Post by sohn9 » Wed, Jul 11, 2012, 5:44 PM UTC

And now for the Android version...

Re: Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha

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Post by lucianm » Wed, Jul 11, 2012, 5:46 PM UTC

OS X 10.7 or later :/

Re: Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha

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Post by martingordon » Wed, Jul 11, 2012, 5:52 PM UTC

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.