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Re: Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha

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Post by tlrobinson » Wed, Jul 11, 2012, 8:08 PM UTC

kylec wrote: post #40

mapgrep wrote: post #36

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.

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.

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

Re: Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha

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Post by smackfu » Wed, Jul 11, 2012, 8:08 PM UTC

bryne wrote: post #27

younata wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Well, not bloating your system with a bunch of new and updated programs is certainly a great way to keep your system footprint light.

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.

Re: Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha

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Post by conradev » Wed, Jul 11, 2012, 8:24 PM UTC

masukomi wrote: post #31

jenius wrote: post #17

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 ot…

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.

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.

Re: Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha

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Post by sirn » Wed, Jul 11, 2012, 8:27 PM UTC

mkaltenecker wrote: post #47

sirn wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

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

Ah, make sense. Thanks for clearing it up!

Re: Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha

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Post by zbowling » Wed, Jul 11, 2012, 8:58 PM UTC

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.

Re: Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha

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Post by nmcfarl » Wed, Jul 11, 2012, 8:59 PM UTC

smackfu wrote: post #50

kylec wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

I personally never read my twitter stream - it’s too noisy and to much of a pain to cull.

I read it by proxy prismatic, and news.me. And I mainly use it to post - for those who do read twitter, to the widget on my blog, and to Facebook.

I suspect that a replacement twitter could handle the last 2 use cases fine - which are the main point for me.

Re: Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha

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Post by olivercameron » Wed, Jul 11, 2012, 9:04 PM UTC

zbowling wrote: post #55

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…

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

Re: Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha

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Post by novum » Wed, Jul 11, 2012, 10:55 PM UTC

hswolff wrote: post #24

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

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

Re: Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha

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Post by daveying99 » Wed, Jul 11, 2012, 11:00 PM UTC

mapgrep wrote: post #36

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.

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

Re: Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha

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Post by tankbot » Wed, Jul 11, 2012, 11:45 PM UTC

mapgrep wrote: post #36

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.

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.