Favourite Twitter App?

[iApples]

With TapBots having made very successful Apps in the past, I'm pretty sure they'd have the cash!

You're wrong. It costs a lot of money to host a server and we don't know how many people actual use TweetBot. For them to pay for a server and then only 2000 people use their client.. It's not worth it. They would be losing money. Tapbots is run by two individuals that do all the work themselves. They aren't a big company.

 

[JASApplications]

You're wrong. It costs a lot of money to host a server and we don't know how many people actual use TweetBot. For them to pay for a server and then only 2000 people use their client.. It's not worth it. They would be losing money. Tapbots is run by two individuals that do all the work themselves. They aren't a big company.

Convertbot, PasteBot, CalcBot and WeightBot have all got thousands of users and they are all £1.19/$1.99. So they've made quite a bit of $$$ from those.

It isn't worth it if they have got that many users, however if they add the push notifications, they will gain many users as the only reason people aren't buying it is because of it not having push notifications.

 

[gks]

Convertbot, PasteBot, CalcBot and WeightBot have all got thousands of users and they are all £1.19/$1.99. So they've made quite a bit of $$$ from those.

It isn't worth it if they have got that many users, however if they add the push notifications, they will gain many users as the only reason people aren't buying it is because of it not having push notifications.

And again. The more users the more expensive this gets. You then have to scale to more servers and that gets complicated and expensive. It isn't like they can magically fit every user on one server. It's basically a twitter client that has to continually scan the users timeline and DMs. That means if there are 2000 users then there are a ton of these twitter clients on the server running checking for new data for each and every user. If new data is found it's sent off to the Apple Push servers and sent to the user.

The reason they haven't come out with it is because how expensive is it going to be? Can they even offer it for free? (Unlikely) If they can't offer it for free, how much is each user going to be charged for it? If it costs money, how many people are going to actually buy it? (Probably not many)

Some of you think that just because a business sells a lot of copies means they have tons of spare cash. Depending on the area they live in the cost of living could be quite high. While $50,000 is well off here it wouldn't even begin to be able to let me afford other places in the country. TapBots may be scraping by financially. They may be well off. We don't know. Nor should we care. But the point is we shouldn't assume they have a lot of spare capital laying around and just because we think that they should spend assloads of money on a server just so whiny complainy people can get their push notifications.

I use twitter a lot throughout the day. But there's no way I'm paying for push notifications. Hell, I don't even want them at all for most apps. I think a lot of people feel that way too.

 

[EvanLugh]

Some of you think that just because a business sells a lot of copies means they have tons of spare cash. Depending on the area they live in the cost of living could be quite high. While $50,000 is well off here it wouldn't even begin to be able to let me afford other places in the country. TapBots may be scraping by financially. They may be well off. We don't know. Nor should we care. But the point is we shouldn't assume they have a lot of spare capital laying around and just because we think that they should spend assloads of money on a server just so whiny complainy people can get their push notifications.

just be honest, we know who you're pointing at!
and yeah push notifications for twitter, not really a big deal.

 

[iApples]

Convertbot, PasteBot, CalcBot and WeightBot have all got thousands of users and they are all £1.19/$1.99. So they've made quite a bit of $$$ from those.

It isn't worth it if they have got that many users, however if they add the push notifications, they will gain many users as the only reason people aren't buying it is because of it not having push notifications.

Read the post under yours.

And again. The more users the more expensive this gets. You then have to scale to more servers and that gets complicated and expensive. It isn't like they can magically fit every user on one server. It's basically a twitter client that has to continually scan the users timeline and DMs. That means if there are 2000 users then there are a ton of these twitter clients on the server running checking for new data for each and every user. If new data is found it's sent off to the Apple Push servers and sent to the user.

The reason they haven't come out with it is because how expensive is it going to be? Can they even offer it for free? (Unlikely) If they can't offer it for free, how much is each user going to be charged for it? If it costs money, how many people are going to actually buy it? (Probably not many)

Some of you think that just because a business sells a lot of copies means they have tons of spare cash. Depending on the area they live in the cost of living could be quite high. While $50,000 is well off here it wouldn't even begin to be able to let me afford other places in the country. TapBots may be scraping by financially. They may be well off. We don't know. Nor should we care. But the point is we shouldn't assume they have a lot of spare capital laying around and just because we think that they should spend assloads of money on a server just so whiny complainy people can get their push notifications.

I use twitter a lot throughout the day. But there's no way I'm paying for push notifications. Hell, I don't even want them at all for most apps. I think a lot of people feel that way too.

This is exactly true.

If you plan to be a developer, you have a lot to learn about the business world, and the cost of doing things. Anyone can make an app and release it for a dollar. (What you are doing) Things get complicated once you start needing servers and such.

You named 4 applications that Tapbots has released. (a 2 person business-also known as a partnership) They spent almost all their time creating these applications, which I must say are quite impressive. Do you really think these two individuals could afford to host a server? No chance. At least not a free one anyways. But then we'll get people that will complain (I'm sure you would be one) that you would have to pay for push notifications.

Let's say they have sold 30,000 copies of their applications (At an average price of $3) That's *$90,000. Now divide that by two, and they have made $45,000 each minus all the time and resources that went into the company/designing the applications. That's nothing for a year... The cost of living has gone up so much, and in most places (Here in Toronto) that wouldn't get you anywhere. Especially if you plan on owning a house and wanting to start a family.

*I also didn't take out Apple's 30% cut... But I'm sure you get the point.

 

[kicko]

i guess with the expense of servers to maintain for notifications, does anyone know how much is needed to float a service like boxcar??

 

[rwilliams]

I took the plunge and bought Tweetbot, and it is indeed the best Twitter app I've used so far. Everything about this app is extremely well designed and gorgeous. Tapbots seem to put a lot of thought into every aspect of their software. I thought the lack of push notifications would be a deal breaker, but really, I don't get anything important enough via Twitter that I MUST have push. But just in case, I left the official Twitter app on my phone to handle that. I'm looking forward to the addition of landscape mode, but their blog explained quite well why it's not as easy for them as it would be for other developers.

 

[iApples]

I took the plunge and bought Tweetbot, and it is indeed the best Twitter app I've used so far. Everything about this app is extremely well designed and gorgeous. Tapbots seem to put a lot of thought into every aspect of their software. I thought the lack of push notifications would be a deal breaker, but really, I don't get anything important enough via Twitter that I MUST have push. But just in case, I left the official Twitter app on my phone to handle that. I'm looking forward to the addition of landscape mode, but their blog explained quite well why it's not as easy for them as it would be for other developers.

Get boxcar? It's gives you push notifications for TweetBot. And you're also able to set up boxcar so when you click 'open' on the notification, it launches TweetBot.

 

[gks]

just be honest, we know who you're pointing at!
and yeah push notifications for twitter, not really a big deal.

Nope, while the comment was for him specifically, the general tone and information was for everyone. It is a very common misconception on this forum to assume that well known developers make money hand over fist on the App Store(s). Some do. Some are very well known but don't make tons of money.

Why don't they make tons of money? Likely because they can't charge enough to make it really worthwhile to them. Meanwhile, charging more means making less since buyers are unwilling to spend $2-3 on an app.

The whole race to the bottom for apps is ridiculous. People insist on having $1 apps and free apps. Yet these same people want to keep asking for more and more and more. Where does that come from? Why do people insist on someone selling their products for free?

Do people honestly think that someone should bust their butts for months on end making an app just to give it away for free? What part of that makes no sense?

That's where my original anger came from with this child who posted the first original thread. I wish all developers would start increasing the costs of their apps so that people would get the point that making 70 cents per sale isn't enough.

Anyone who has the ignorance to come on here and whine like this kid did about a real high quality app costing too much that he needs opinions before he spends the equivalent of a cup of hot chocolate on it. That's pathetic.

 

[JASApplications]

Twitterific posted an update and it's really nice. Tough call between Tweetbot and Twitterific now!

 

[JNGold]

Twitterific posted an update and it's really nice. Tough call between Tweetbot and Twitterific now!

I have had Twitteriffic on my iDevices (iPhone/iPad) for quite some time now. I have never used it as my primary since it seems like most other clients out there surpass it in terms of features. Sure, it has a “clean” interface, but that doesn’t always win out. The Twitter streaming API is a great feature to have, which I use on both Ecofon and Tweetings. However, the nicest feature of those two I mentioned which surprises me that Twitteriffic has not implemented is the syncing of read status across platforms (iPhone, iPad, and Mac). Since Twitteriffic is on all three platforms, it should at least be kept in sync with all the devices you use the application on. I have enjoyed this feature first on Tweetings and now Ecofon. I stopped using Tweetings because it was just so darn buggy on the iphone and ipad.

 

[lexvo]

I have tried Twitter, Twitterriffic and Echofon.

But Tweetlogix has all the good things of these apps and more. And it is cheaper than the pro versions of some apps.