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I agree whole-heartedly. (The below is, of course, my opinion only.)

For me, the writing was on the wall when Twitter for iPhone first came out; they took the relatively simple and easy-to-use search screen and combined a bunch of separate functions into one bizarre combo search box that felt unintuitive and annoying. I still used it for a while, but wound up switching to the delightfully intuitive (if a bit under-featured) Twitteriffic 3.

I kept hoping they'd turn it around, but for me, Twitter for Mac was the death-knell for Atebit's aesthetic; what used to be an elegant and beautiful, yet still right-at-home on the Mac experience turned into an ugly, user-hostile piece of software… just like Twitter for iPhone.

RIP, Tweetie. You will be missed.

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I'm still a fan of Twitter for Mac. It's one app I think users are safe from monetization, it never felt that important to them.

Yeah, at least until Twitter decides to extend the Dickbar to the Mac app as well.

That's what I'm saying, I don't think they'll do that. I will probably be proven wrong though.

In light of the Mac App store they probably will :/

If there's one thing I'd single out about Twitter for Mac, it's the non-standard window implantation. The titlebar at the top is invisible and tiny, the plus button is more useless then a normal OS X app, you can't drag the window off-screen, and if your configured displays are changed and you suddenly have less vertical resolution there's no way to resize the window.[1]

I could keep bitching about things (no font size adjustment, bizarre animations that give no context, poor highlighting of selected tweet), but there's no real point - if you like it, you like it, if you don't, you don't. :-)

[1] This was all in version 1.0 - perhaps they've changed/fixed some of this, but I haven't felt like going back and finding out.

> they took the relatively simple and easy-to-use search screen and combined a bunch of separate functions into one bizarre combo search box that felt unintuitive and annoying.

I noticed that too. Felt like the first sign that Loren was no longer in charge of the design. Sad moment. I haven't upgrade to the newest version, but from other's comments, sounds like the UX has degraded further. And I'm also one of the folks who'd gladly throw a little money at Twitter periodically just for letting me keeping using the service, and keep using Tweetie as it was before it was assimilated. No ads. No crashes. Delightfully smooth and refreshing UX.

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