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Comment by MBCook | Hacker News Reader

I really like Twitter, I follow a lot of great people and discover a lot of great things on it.

But I don’t understand how anyone uses their website or the official client. If it wasn’t for a third-party client I think I’d give up pretty fast.

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Chronological, always. Always at the same point when I reopen, I scroll upwards until I hit the latest tweet at the top, at which point I am done.

I absolutely would not use Twitter if I had to use the website.

Agreed. No promoted tweets. No “what’s trending”. No suggesting I follow the influencer of the week.

Just the stuff I want to see in the order it was tweeted.

> or the official client

With https://github.com/haoict/twitter-no-ads and https://repo.packix.com/package/com.alwayslatesttimelinetwit...

Which third party client do you recommend?

Tweetbot if you’re on iOS. I’ve used it for probably close to a decade and nothing compares IMO. Always chronological timeline, no ads whatsoever, filters, mutes, etc. It’s just great. They recently moved to a subscription model (I know, I know) but it’s only like $5/year and way worth it. In the past, major versions were usually a $10-$20 upgrade price. Ever since they moved to this model the rate of updates and new features has really ramped up, too.

Yep, that’s what I’ve been using since the day I joined Twitter. I literally never use the site except to sign up and adjust account settings (like 2FA).

Harpy on Android is pretty solid. Nice UI and loads fast. I seem to have some issues viewing threads when navigating to them from a retweet but I may just be missing something.

on iOS, TweetBot is excellent. It has been the best iOS client (IMO) for years.

Twitterrific is nice on iOS.

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