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According to Twitter, it's not possible to innovate on clients any more; glad to see a company willing to prove otherwise. This is why I'm always against a platform company saying "don't build x" whether it's Twitter saying don't build clients or Apple saying don't build web browsers.

TweetBot's also been in development for a long, long time. They had to put it on hold the first time, when Twitter bought Tweetie and put it out for free.

Best feature: swipe left to see the conversation, including replies to others you don't follow. Awesome.

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?

I have all of tapbots apps, and find them amazing. This appears to be no different. I don't tweet much, but you can be sure I will use tweetbot from now on. Awesome. Best of all, no #dickbar.

Also, this has one of the best demo videos and presentation I have seen.

Well, the latest update to the official app doesn't have a #dickbar either.

I love the Tapbots aesthetic... it reminds me very much of Dyson products.

It looks nicer than most of the Twitter apps out there, but I don't think I'm leaving Echofon yet. I love the desktop/iPhone/iPad sync, built-in push notifications and muting capabilities.

(I know there's Boxcar, but I've seen friends have trouble unsubscribing from Boxcar effectively, that's a bit worrisome to me however fringe case it may be.)

Trouble unsubscribing from Boxcar? Delete the app.

Sorry, trouble unregistering services with Boxcar. He'd turn off notifications, but they'd keep on coming.

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.

The demo video is really well done. Does anyone knows who produced it?

The designer half of Tapbots, the designer/developer duo, did: http://markjardine.com/

I love the icon. It alone makes me feel compelled to buy it.

There's certainly some nice features, and it's a nice UI. But I much prefer Twitter clients that show more tweets on the screen at once. The large location and retweet-info bars mean I see about 30% fewer tweets in some parts of my timeline compared to other apps, even with the small font size set. Anyone find this is an immediate turn-off for a twitter app?

I haven't tried TweetBot yet, but I have also rejected other Twitter clients for not showing enough tweets in the timeline view.

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. :)

Too bad it's crashing on iPhone 3G. Hope this will be fixed with an update.

I was disappointed to find it doesn't work on my 3G, shame because I quite like the other tapbots

They were quite responsive on twitter and mentioned they've pushed an update.

Time to wait for it to appear on the App Store.

Beautiful UI. My first Tapbots app. Very impressed. I wish it had native push notifications and landscape support though =/ Will be using it as my primary client for a bit though, to see how it goes.

I predict this app will be renamed within the next six months.

…why?

Twitter trademarked "Tweet".

They have said it's fine if it's pure Twitter apps.

Twitterific has Twitter in the name, and it's been around for ages.

I believe some companies have made agreements with Twitter which allows them to use Twitter in their name. I don't think Twitter does this anymore.

They made Touiteur (Twitter client for Android) change theirs to Plume for Twitter, which sucks. Not the new name (well, it does a bit), but the fact that they made them change a great name. Grrr.

Love this. First Twitter app I've got no complaints about. Hopefully will get push notifications at some point, then I can ditch the official app entirely.

It has push notification via Boxcar

http://tapbots.com/support/tweetbot/

Is Boxcar as good as the official app's push? Official app pushes as soon as the mention appears in my timeline, which is great

I've found that Boxcar's push is more reliable than any other Twitter clients' push, including the official client.

I've been logging my weight with their fantastic Weightbot for a couple years now. Great intuitive UX and graphic design. Fine work.

I love this application it has solved so many problems that other twitter apps couldn't

the multiple timelines feature makes me wish there was a desktop version. or that i had an iphone.

I guess it's good an iPhone app makes you want an iPhone :)

Hope they do an iPad app!

and even better - have the iPad app sync the timeline position with the iPhone app so you can tread your stream on either..

Replaced Icebird for me, love it :)

Just what the world needed....yet another twitter client.

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