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New improvements to Twitter for Mac

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I was a great fan of Twitter for Mac, but their stewardship of it was terrible. It was left in a prolonged state of abandonware, not even supporting Twitter's new picture hosting service for over a year after it was available.

So no matter how cool or good it may be, they have some credibility to earn back before I let myself get attached.

Meanwhile, I have cheerfully paid $20 for TweetBot, which has enjoyed ongoing development since its introduction. It's a terrifically designed app with a solid, easy-to-use UI and powerful multi-account features. I understand TapBots incentives better than Twitter's, so I'll be sticking with TweetBot for now.

I would have to agree. TweetBot is worth far more than $20 in terms of quality and usability. I just hope they don't turn out like Tweetie. The iOS app is phenomenal as well.

So, call me cynical (I have been called much worse), but my immediate reaction is to wonder whether I should upgrade--what Twitter has done to make it a worse experience for me to use. That seems to be the overarching MO for stuff like this. I mean, I'm using Twitteriffic right now anyway, but still, I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering if they've hosed yet another of their first-party apps, and that can't be a good thing.

(EDIT: All that said, I just downloaded the Twitter update just out of curiosity, and it's actually pretty nice! I haven't yet seen any regressions from the previous version. And I haven't seen any sponsored tweet crap, but it's only been a few minutes.)

I haven't used the official Twitter app in a long time, so my memory could be failing me, but I'm pretty sure I remember seeing sponsored tweets even on the old version. I thought that was the reason I stopped using it.

Whoa, I thought they'd killed future development of this.

Edit: http://9to5mac.com/2012/09/06/twitter-makes-the-decision-to-...

Same here - I was quite surprised to see this update.

As a Windows and a Linux user, it's really weird to see people here complaining about how long it took for Twitter to release this app. At least Mac has a proper app (and a lot of awesome alternatives). Consider yourselves lucky. I'm not saying you people have no right to complain, but at least you have something to complain about.

And yes, I'm aware of Twitter for Windows 8, Tweetdeck and Metrotwit. They all suck and I've complained about them long enough.

New Twitter for Mac doesn't allow you to change accounts while composing a tweet, making my job providing user support over Twitter harder.

Also odd that Twitter for Mac is retina but Twitter for Web is not.

EDIT: @couch mentions that you can use ⌘⇧] and ⌘⇧[, which is less than ideal but makes it possible to switch between accounts. But I still miss the old drop-down which just required one mousedown and a corresponding mouseup on the selected account.

If you want a really nice OS X twitter client with tons of features, check Yory Fukurou https://sites.google.com/site/yorufukurou/home-en

My favorite thing about this client is the "mute" feature. You can mute by users, keywords, RegExp and applications.

Yoru Fukurou.

Yep, it's my go to client although the developer isn't big on responding to user requests and it's a bit funky for OS X UI.

+1 Might not be the best looking app but sure it is the most featureful. Love it!

What about ads (sponsored posts)? Are those in there now?

Haven't seen any yet and I've been using it all morning.

No sign of them.

That's weird. They didn't publish any update since 2 years. Anyone thought it was really dead and Twitter made this in order let the user switch to twitter.com.

I did, it wasn't even retina capable last I looked at it.

Not surprising, since today's update is the one that introduces retina support.

There was a hack a guy did to handle retina...

Is Twitter an open-allocation company? This feels like what happens when there's something that needs to get done, but nobody really feels like working on it and there's no top-down command to do it.

It might be partly due to their API keys and secrets being leaked a while back.

http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2013/03/07/twitters-api-keys-a...

One interesting note: the deprecation of v1 of the API was going to force them to either remove the app or update it. During the blackout for unauth'd endpoints a few features (notably search) stopped working. I just checked and the new version is indeed hitting v1.1 of the API now.

Also noticed that the Develop section has somehow survived, which was an old Tweetie feature allowing you to change the Oauth tokens that are used: http://d.pr/i/HMjs

Still can't see the option to take a photo with my built-in camera. I wonder if a bridge with Photo Booth is possible for mac apps.

Still needs some sort of syncing of read positions.

For over a year, I couldn't log into the Twitter for Mac client. Hope this fixes it!

Error: "unauthorized"

Welp, so much for that. :(

Might be related to them killing off desktop support for Tweetdeck.

They're only killing support for the android, iPhone and Adobe Air versions. The native desktop versions of both Windows and OS X will continue to work. http://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/20/tweetdeck-air-and-tweetdeck-f...

I haven't used it in a long time so I thought the AIR version was their desktop version. I didn't realise they'd gone native.

Actual title is: New improvements to Twitter for Mac

I'm not falling for it this time.

Only took them 2 years...

Sounds pretty cool. I'm interested to see how buggy it is, cause some of their other features really are.

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