![]() Multi-column support: Twitter for Mac’s lack of multi-column functionality was one of its huge shortcomings.It is of paramount importance that working with multiple accounts feel effortless. Multi-account support: While most Twitter users have but one account, many people manage both personal and organizational accounts.Still, I’ll take a crack at some basic parameters: This is largely a matter of opinion, to be sure - my needs likely vary from yours. What Makes a Great Twitter Client? - Before considering replacements for Twitter’s soon-to-be-departed Mac app, it is useful to analyze what features a good Twitter app should have. In doing so, I’ve become more bullish about Twitterrific and Tweetbot, in part because they’ve improved since my last look. Now, though, we Twitter for Mac users have no choice but to cast about for a fresh Twitter client. In comparison, Twitterrific and Tweetbot seemed to have too many gee-whiz features while making simpler operations harder than necessary. Twitter’s free Mac app didn’t get a lot of love in its last days, but I thought it was a paragon of simplicity and flexibility, permitting me to keep close tabs on my various Twitter accounts and to navigate effortlessly among these. The Tweetie-to-Twitter lineage is detailed in a recent episode of iMore’s Vector podcast that’s worth a watch, listen, or transcript read. It was descended from Tweetie, a much-loved app from Loren Brichter that Twitter bought in 2010. Even so, TweetDeck is a decent option for those who do not want to use Twitter’s basic Web app. Displayed below are Twitterrific and Tweetbot, along with the now-defunct Twitter for Mac.Ī third option, Twitter’s TweetDeck, is not a native Mac app, but more of a wrapper for a generic multicolumn interface that is the same in Windows and Chrome OS. Two of the apps, Tweetbot ($9.99) and Twitterrific ($19.99 but on sale for $7.99 as of this writing), are native Mac clients with beloved iOS siblings. The selection has waned since Twitter made life hard for third-party apps some years ago (see “ How Do We Fix Twitter?,” 11 August 2015), but a handful of alternative Twitter clients are still available and seem firmly entrenched. Users of the app must now find replacements. On 16 February 2018, Twitter made that official, announcing it was pulling the app from the Mac App Store and would be dropping support for it entirely a month later. This update did not carry over to the company’s long-neglected Mac app, however, which suggested it was not long for this world. Twitter has seen significant changes recently, such as an increase in a tweet’s maximum character count from 140 to 280 on 7 November 2017. Three Alternatives to Twitter’s Now-Defunct Mac App #1649: More LastPass breach details and 1Password switch, macOS screen saver problem, tvOS 16.3.3 fixes Siri Remote bug.#1650: Cloud storage changes for Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive quirky printing problem.#1651: Dealing with leading zeroes in spreadsheet data, removing ad tracking from ckbk.#1652: OS updates, DPReview shuttered, LucidLink cloud storage.#1653: Apple Music Classical review, Authory service for writers, WWDC 2023 dates announced.
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