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Don't waste your money like I just did. The app can't connect to the Twitter server right now, probably getting bogged down due to the hype. I'll stick with Tweetbot for right now.
I don't see how the connection to the Twitter servers would fail unless they are using some type of proxy which would not make any sense.
I'm not hip to the technical aspects of how it works but I got a "The requested URL was not found on this server" error when trying to refresh my feed. Quite irritating for an app you pay for.
tweetbot has pi$$ me off with taking so long to update their app that I switched to twitterrific and actually I am really liking that app as of now
I saw a lot of talk about twitterrific but never bought into it because I loved tweetbot. Now I'm torn and depending on what the update looks like for tweetbot I have no problem if I stay with twitterrific. It's a great app. Only thing I wish it did was keep a running number of tweets left as I scroll through.
agree I would be just fine with twitterrific if tweetbot isn't what it's all cracked up to be
For now I have been switching back and forth between Twitteriffic and the first party Twitter app.
I first picked up Tweetbot on my iPhone 4 or 4S because the first party twitter app was not that great, and I loved it and still do.
I have always switched and bought third party twitter apps since before Twitter had a first party app, so when Twitteriffic came out with a brand new app for iOS 6 I had to try it out.
It's a great looking app. Now on iOS 7 the menu bars are less intrusive than before and the coloring looks great. I love the ability to "muffle" some people you follow, but I think I prefer Tweetbot's muting because you don't see any trace of the person on your Timeline.
There are still some places where the first party app and Tweetbot excel.
Twitter lets you view previews for Vine, a good amount of picture uploaders, Tumblr posts, and articles.
Tweetbot gives you previews for Vine, some picture uploaders, Instagram pics and videos. I find it the most useful for the Instagram previews.
It took me a while, but the conversation view on Twitter is actually kinda nice. I do love the gestures on Tweetbot also.
Twitteriffic is a fantastic app, but aside from the beautiful UI, sometimes I find it a bit lacking.
Sorry if this isn't exactly coherent, I'm falling asleep at the keyboard, and with this, I bid you all a good night.
I first picked up Tweetbot on my iPhone 4 or 4S because the first party twitter app was not that great, and I loved it and still do.
I have always switched and bought third party twitter apps since before Twitter had a first party app, so when Twitteriffic came out with a brand new app for iOS 6 I had to try it out.
It's a great looking app. Now on iOS 7 the menu bars are less intrusive than before and the coloring looks great. I love the ability to "muffle" some people you follow, but I think I prefer Tweetbot's muting because you don't see any trace of the person on your Timeline.
There are still some places where the first party app and Tweetbot excel.
Twitter lets you view previews for Vine, a good amount of picture uploaders, Tumblr posts, and articles.
Tweetbot gives you previews for Vine, some picture uploaders, Instagram pics and videos. I find it the most useful for the Instagram previews.
It took me a while, but the conversation view on Twitter is actually kinda nice. I do love the gestures on Tweetbot also.
Twitteriffic is a fantastic app, but aside from the beautiful UI, sometimes I find it a bit lacking.
Sorry if this isn't exactly coherent, I'm falling asleep at the keyboard, and with this, I bid you all a good night.
that's a good overall take on the 2 don't forget about twitterrific switching their theme from day time and night time automatically another pretty nice feature
Out of Echofon, Twitterific, and Tweetbot, I would chose Tweetbot. It definitely has the most features and the cleanest look.
Tweetbot user here , & looking forward to the eventual ios7 update. Shame it's taken it's time , however I'm a firm believer in quality takes time. That said , they've had the same amount of time as everyone else. I don't necessarily subscribe to this 2 man team reasoning , to me you adjust your workload accordingly to work on your most profitable & popular software platform. ios7 was well talked about & given to developers in ample time to get things ready. For me , Tweetbots only real argument for delay is the fact that it appears to be a total rework & design from the ground up. If this is the case I will reserve my judgement until released 7 I'm using it. I have high hopes , please deliver guys. From their blog it's been submitted to Apple & awaiting approval & then a release date from Tweetbot themselves.
In the meantime I'm using Tweetlogix & Tweetbot. I have Tweetlogix in my dock & use it to tweet , read mentions & everyday browsing of TL etc. I have Tweetbot still on my homepage , purely for the push of @ & DM's etc. I don't for the life of me understand why Twitter clients these days don't support native push. I want to know when I have a @ etc , & I shouldn't have to rely on a 3rd party like Boxcar etc , especially on a paid app. Tweetlogix to me is a superb Twitter app , offers everything I require apart from push. When I saw the ios7 update come through I admit to getting a tad excited. What a perfect opportunity to offer push , along with their new ios7 look & feel. How disappointing to then see it still wasn't there.
If the new Tweetbot 3 is clean , offers the same & more polished features as their current version , then I shall use as my preferred client. Until then I shall use Tweetlogix for their look , but please start to consider native push. Your're missing a trick in my opinion.
As for Tweet7 , tried it & deleted it. Looks nice but I did not like the dragging in from the right of the screen & took me all of 5 minutes to get very irritated & annoyed with that tweet compose icon at the bottom of the screen all the time. As i said clean , but then this dirty big circle stuck on the screen all the time.
Cheers
In the meantime I'm using Tweetlogix & Tweetbot. I have Tweetlogix in my dock & use it to tweet , read mentions & everyday browsing of TL etc. I have Tweetbot still on my homepage , purely for the push of @ & DM's etc. I don't for the life of me understand why Twitter clients these days don't support native push. I want to know when I have a @ etc , & I shouldn't have to rely on a 3rd party like Boxcar etc , especially on a paid app. Tweetlogix to me is a superb Twitter app , offers everything I require apart from push. When I saw the ios7 update come through I admit to getting a tad excited. What a perfect opportunity to offer push , along with their new ios7 look & feel. How disappointing to then see it still wasn't there.
If the new Tweetbot 3 is clean , offers the same & more polished features as their current version , then I shall use as my preferred client. Until then I shall use Tweetlogix for their look , but please start to consider native push. Your're missing a trick in my opinion.
As for Tweet7 , tried it & deleted it. Looks nice but I did not like the dragging in from the right of the screen & took me all of 5 minutes to get very irritated & annoyed with that tweet compose icon at the bottom of the screen all the time. As i said clean , but then this dirty big circle stuck on the screen all the time.
Cheers
Out of the 3 listed I've been using Echofon. Twitterific is nice but it doesn't save the hashtags you used and I use a lot of the same.
Yeah WA needs updating ASAP, it's an app I use all the time and it looks really out of place in the new iOS...
Pushover has just been updated for ios7
http://updates.pushover.net/post/64499913787/pushover-2-0-for-ios
http://updates.pushover.net/post/64499913787/pushover-2-0-for-ios
think I am at the end of the road with instagram...I have been using it less and less ever since Facebook bought it and now with no plans to change that ugly hideous icon and them keeping the same ugly ui...is there any alternative apps that I may switch to or just be without?
I've been using Twitteriffic under iOS7 since the early betas simply because Tweetbot looks awfully out of place in its current incarnation.
In terms of features, stability and responsiveness it is miles ahead of Twitteriffic however. Muffle has nothing on Tweetbots muting feature. It seems to hit the memory ceiling all the time and will frequently restart from scratch when switched to.
Not to mention the annoying lag from the faked screenshot when it doesn't restart. Makes the entire app feel unresponsive. At least show it greyed out / blurred or SOMETHING to show you can't actually interact with it. Not to mention the screenshot is frequently flat out wrong. Bad bad BAD UX.
No instagram previews. No lazy image loading. Indicators doesn't update when you read messages making you think you have replies when you don't.
I could go on and on. Tweetbot simply FEELS a lot better, faster and more feature rich. I can't wait for the app to get approved.
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In terms of features, stability and responsiveness it is miles ahead of Twitteriffic however. Muffle has nothing on Tweetbots muting feature. It seems to hit the memory ceiling all the time and will frequently restart from scratch when switched to.
Not to mention the annoying lag from the faked screenshot when it doesn't restart. Makes the entire app feel unresponsive. At least show it greyed out / blurred or SOMETHING to show you can't actually interact with it. Not to mention the screenshot is frequently flat out wrong. Bad bad BAD UX.
No instagram previews. No lazy image loading. Indicators doesn't update when you read messages making you think you have replies when you don't.
I could go on and on. Tweetbot simply FEELS a lot better, faster and more feature rich. I can't wait for the app to get approved.
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I remember I asked Twitteriffic if they were going to include some feature that Tweetbot had (I can't remember what it was) but they basically told me that they wanted to keep the app as simple as possible. I know some people prefer simple, but I kinda like to have a lot of features and gestures.
