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Tapbots Releases 'Tweetbot' Twitter App for iPhone

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Tapbots, developer of several Mac and iOS apps including Calcbot, Convertbot and others, has released Tweetbot, a new Twitter client for the iPhone. Tweetbot debuted in the App Store yesterday and features customizable navigation and gestures, the ability to view lists as separate timelines as well as features also found in other iOS Twitter clients like URL shortening support, translations, and push notifications via Boxcar.

Tapbots has created a demo video highlighting Tweetbot's features.

Tapbots had revealed over a year ago that a Twitter client for the iPhone was in the works and last month indicated that it was "really close" to a release just a few days before Twitter declared that third-party developers should stop creating clients for the popular social networking service based on the company's new focus on a "consistent user experience" across platforms.

Tweetbot is currently on sale for a special introductory price of $1.99 and requires iOS 4.1 or higher.

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It really is fantastic.

I've been a die-hard Tweetie (and now 'Twitter for iPhone') user through both its versions. I still like it.

But I've been using Tweetbot since last night and thus far I can still say that I like it better. Well, well worth the cost.
 
Not used it but from the video it shows nothing extra for me to choose it over the official app
 
While the app does look great, especially swiping to see the full thread, it lacks too many things for me to purchase. Topping the list are lack of push notification, iPad compatibility, and fact that there are so many Twitter clients out there. It would've been more interesting if this was a Google Voice client instead.
 
I refuse to try another Twitter app. It's bad enough I use 3 different clients (Mac, iPad, iPhone) because we can't get one that does it all.
 
Meh

Looks nice and sounds great as Tapbots apps always do [I have Convertbot and Pastebot - both excellent five star apps] buuuut... the "Official" Twitter client is FREE and judging only by the video, this doesn't seem to bring anything I'd really use more, so....
 
rdowns said:
I refuse to try another Twitter app. It's bad enough I use 3 different clients (Mac, iPad, iPhone) because we can't get one that does it all.
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I used Echofon for Mac and iPhone. Had good number of features and can sync which tweets have been read.

Tweetbot has the best interface out of all the app for iOS. I would say the number of features is on par with Echofon. But it's missing push (you have to get it through Boxcar) which is a big minus for me. I'm still giving Tweetbot a go in the meantime.
 
spacemanspifff said:
Looks nice and sounds great as Tapbots apps always do [I have Convertbot and Pastebot - both excellent five star apps] buuuut... the "Official" Twitter client is FREE and judging only by the video, this doesn't seem to bring anything I'd really use more, so....
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That's what I was thinking. While I haven't used it myself, it looks like a graphically softer version of the Twitter app. Not seeing the big deal (especially since I think Convertbot is a good looking but very inefficient conversion app [one conversion at a time ... really?]).
 
I really don't see what people see in this app. It's just another twitter client imo. Has a few improved features from the official client, but nothing to get excited about. Push support greatly outweighs any of these improvements.
 
Replaced twitter for me on the iPod Touch. Really sick of most twitter clients making you go through extra panes of crap when you either just want to see an image, or visit a link. Tweetbot does that well, it also let's you report spammers easily.
 
I use TweetDeck on my MacBook and previously Twitter for iPhone on my iPhone. Now, I think I'm switching to Tweetbot!
 
it does have push support why do people think it doesn't? Just download boxcar and select tweetbot. Problem solved.
 
It's nice and it's fast. It adds a Lot of functionality that does not get in your way, like a lot of other third party Twitter apps. I particularly like how it deals with lists. I've tried them all and kept going back to the official Twitter app (except for the dickbar weeks, ugh).

I transferring to Tweetbot as my main Twitter app. But I'll keep an eye on 'Tweetie,' which is what I still think of as the official Twitter app's name.
 
After a week or so I still haven't made my mind up about this. While I like some of the features and how the UX works I just have so much muscle memory built up when it comes to Tweetie/Twitter for iPhone.

I'll give it more time, but I can't help but think Twitter has got everything we need in their app.
 
App is nice on iPhone. iPad need a Twitter client, that actually looks and feels good, for me.
 
Best Twitter app for iPhone

If you haven't tried Tweetings for iPhone yet, it is by far one of the better Twitter clients out there. I find it much better then the twitter app. It gives you more control/options over you app to how you want it to look. It has wifi stream connection to keep you tweets flowing as they happen, a lot of options for themes, font control, picture in timeline, option to empty cache, paging control, Push Notifications built in.......and much more. Check it out you won't be disappointed
 
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