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I use Twitter via their official apps, I have tried some of the third party apps but haven't really been impressed. After all this time it didn't seem like the app ecosystem was coming up with anything really innovative besides slightly different ways of organizing the feeds.

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That's because they bought the cool third party apps like the TweetDeck and Tweetie, and have since begun shunning third party developers. In short, the official apps were third party apps, and now no one wants to make any additional Twitter apps because Twitter has become hostile to developers. They've closed the door on third party inovation for their platform.

> like the TweetDeck and Tweetie

Don't you mean Tweetbot or something? Tweetie was bought by Twitter, rebranded to be the official Twitter client, and in no small part gutted and left to rot (gutted for the mobile version, left to rot for the desktop one).

>> That's because they bought the cool third party apps like the TweetDeck and Tweetie

>Tweetie was bought by Twitter

That's what they said. I think you misread that post.

Try twicca on Android. It is substantially faster to use and performs really well (scrolling long lists) on older Android devices.

In fact, the official clients are almost unusable on slower/older Android devices, whereas twicca is fast and responsive.

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