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'Tweetbot 2' Yosemite Update in the Works, Will Be Available for Free

My biggest issue with Tweetbot/Tapbots is lack of support.

Tweetbot stopped receiving notifications on my iPhone months ago. I've reinstalled it, reset cache, turned notifications off and back on in both the app and iOS, everything, yet it refuses to work.

I tweeted their account and they said they'd look into it; this was months ago. I tweeted them again and my messages have since gone ignored.

I realize this is a problem with my account specifically as other users are still getting notifications, but it's definitely on Tweetbot's end as other apps get notifications just fine. I wish they'd spend the few minutes it would take to look into my issue.

I've since removed the app from my phone and gone back to the official Twitter client; it may not be as good but at least it works 100%.
 
zorinlynx said:
My biggest issue with Tweetbot/Tapbots is lack of support.

Tweetbot stopped receiving notifications on my iPhone months ago. I've reinstalled it, reset cache, turned notifications off and back on in both the app and iOS, everything, yet it refuses to work.

I tweeted their account and they said they'd look into it; this was months ago. I tweeted them again and my messages have since gone ignored.

I realize this is a problem with my account specifically as other users are still getting notifications, but it's definitely on Tweetbot's end as other apps get notifications just fine. I wish they'd spend the few minutes it would take to look into my issue.

I've since removed the app from my phone and gone back to the official Twitter client; it may not be as good but at least it works 100%.
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This is the experience I spoke about too. I had a problem with notifications and iCloud syncing, it was definitely on their end, they even said so. It has been almost 3 months since I first reported it, asked again, it was ignored. Few days later, one more time. They told me to email support. I did that, and got an attitude laden response. That combined with their utter laziness with regard to updates, especially on iPad and Mac, has pretty much made me say **** it.

No time for developers that are too lazy to keep all their versions in line with each other or at least within a month or two. Any that I've already bought get an automatic 1 star, and I won't be buying any in the future who fail to do so. Especially ones that have such a problem being helpful to PAYING customers. Twitteriffic is good for iOS but wish it had a Mac version and proper muting. You might try that if you get tired of the Twitter client. I don't mind it, especially now that they added muting on Twitter, but the ads/sponsored tweets from banks are annoying as hell.
 
McFreggle said:
What do you mean? I use Tweetbot 2 for iPad and Tweetbot 3 for iPhone all the time and they nicely sync with each other, via iCloud.
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I have deleted, re-installed, cleared iCloud data, etc., but no matter what I do, Tweetbot for iPad refuses to sync the timeline properly.

Are you using iCloud Drive?
 
samplane123 said:
It's a two person team. Give them a break
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No. They should employ more staff if that's a case. They're a major iOS developer. Slow updates is not acceptable, in my eyes. But then, they owe me nothing. That's why I stopped using Tweetbot.
 
I used to be a massive advocate of Tweetbot, but these days they just seem to under-deliver on many aspects.

- Charging for what was essentially a UI update on iPhone.
- Heck, the iPad app hasn't been updated in ages. They got our money, guess they don't care.
- The $20 price tag is outrageous for twitter for mac. It's a twitter client. Moreover, I'd be pissed if I paid $20 and then had to pay another $20 for a new UI.

Then there's the time it takes between updates. Bugs take months between being reported and being fixed, if you even get a response. You normally get a "Thanks, we'll take a look" and nothing more. Which might be fine for a $0.99 app - but not when you're paying $20.

I still use their iOS app, but I don't use anything else. And to people saying that it's twitter's fault - no - it's their fault. It was their business plan, their decision to make an app which falls into the token restrictions (apps that don't replicate the core app don't need it), and their decision to essentially price themselves out of the market on OS X.
 
nutmac said:
Well, at least Mac version is functional. Tweetbot for iPad doesn't sync over iCloud, at least on iOS 8. I can use Tweet Marker as a workaround, but it's ridiculous how this crucial feature remains broken.
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Strange, on my iPad with iOS 8 syncing works perfectly.
 
Brian Y said:
And to people saying that it's twitter's fault - no - it's their fault. It was their business plan, their decision to make an app which falls into the token restrictions (apps that don't replicate the core app don't need it), and their decision to essentially price themselves out of the market on OS X.
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That's not accurate on a few points.

1. Twitters token restriction came while Tweetbot for Mac was in beta, while they were developing the app there was no such restriction and no way to know that twitter would implement such a ridiculous idea.

2. It is completely twitter's fault. IMO it isn't even about money, it's about tokens. If it was free or 0.99c they would have sold out of tokens in 2 days and that would be it, they would have to take it off of the store. They had to price it high to affect the supply part of supply and demand. This way they only get the customers that really want it and they don't blow through their tokens too fast.

I really don't understand how people know so little about economics that they don't see why it's priced the way it is. It isn't over priced or under priced, it's priced so that they sell some but not 100,000 in a short amount of time. All the people complaining about how it's too much money are exactly the people that they are trying to keep from buying it so that you don't waste their token limit.

For the rest of your post, spot on. I used to really love their products, but the fact that they announced an update for calcbot months ago and nothing is just not acceptable. It's a calculator, IT HAS ONE SCREEN. No wonder the iPad app is taking so long.
 
WordMasterRice said:
That's not accurate on a few points.

1. Twitters token restriction came while Tweetbot for Mac was in beta, while they were developing the app there was no such restriction and no way to know that twitter would implement such a ridiculous idea.

2. It is completely twitter's fault. IMO it isn't even about money, it's about tokens. If it was free or 0.99c they would have sold out of tokens in 2 days and that would be it, they would have to take it off of the store. They had to price it high to affect the supply part of supply and demand. This way they only get the customers that really want it and they don't blow through their tokens too fast.

I really don't understand how people know so little about economics that they don't see why it's priced the way it is. It isn't over priced or under priced, it's priced so that they sell some but not 100,000 in a short amount of time. All the people complaining about how it's too much money are exactly the people that they are trying to keep from buying it so that you don't waste their token limit.

For the rest of your post, spot on. I used to really love their products, but the fact that they announced an update for calcbot months ago and nothing is just not acceptable. It's a calculator, IT HAS ONE SCREEN. No wonder the iPad app is taking so long.
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1. And yet they chose to go ahead anyway. It was in development, they heard the news, and chose to continue development. People seem to think of twitter as being the bad guys - it's no different to real world businesses (i mean real world vs digital). If you're developing a product (say a car) using a certain material and part way into development, the price of the material you use goes up. You have several choices, you can:

- Continue development with this material, knowing full well about the price increase
- Change to an alternative design before you waste too much money
- Kill the project before you lose too much money.

I would imagine here, they went with option 1, using the iPhone apps to subsidise development of the mac app. IMO this was a bad business decision. The people (as you so eloquently put it, like me) who they are trying to put off buying his app are the same people who bought the iPad and iPhone apps. There are, however, very few people willing to drop $20 on a damn twitter client.

2. Again, they chose to continue making the app in its current form. They could have easily differentiated it to make it a "non-core-experience" app, and wouldn't have not been subject to the token restrictions. It really wouldn't take much to turn the app into something that's not a core experience. Add Facebook connectivity (publishing to Facebook?). Add an RSS news reader? These are all things which could have been quite easily done to get around the token limit.

We cannot continue blaming twitter for bad business decisions.

As I said, I have nothing against them personally, and I used to be quite impressed by them. They seem to be pouring dev time into this in an attempt to save it, whilst customers who have purchased other apps go unnoticed (tweetbot for iPad hasn't been updated since last June, and tweetbot for iPhone was one of the last apps on my phone to get 6+ compatibility).
 
Why would you hire more people when the money isn't there to do so? Right now they're in a situation where Twitter could at any moment pull the plug entirely on these apps. They thought App.net could have been the future, and made a client for that, but that never took off, and that service is on its last legs too.
 
Art0fLife said:
Twitteriffic is good for iOS but wish it had a Mac version and proper muting.
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FWIW, Twitterrific does have a Mac client. I've haven't been too active on Twitter lately, but my feeling from a while back was that Twitterrific was the better iOS client (and Universal as well), while Tweetbot was the better client on OS X.

I started out on iOS with Tweetbot, and was a fan/supporter for a long time, then when something in it broke for a while, I switched over to Twitterrific, liked it better, and never really looked back. When Tweetbot 3 came came out for the iPhone, everyone sang its praises from rooftops, so I thought, "so many well known folks are glowingly recommending Tweetbot now, surely they must be right," and I tried it again. Nope, Twitterrific was still way better, plus Tweetbot looks/feels horribly old/clunky now. And still no even-semi-modern iPad client for Tweetbot, and it's a separate purchase. Did I mention Twitterrific is Universal?
 
AlliFlowers said:
I love Tweetbot. It's the only Twitter client I use on both iOS and Mac. I don't see why people want regular updates. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. It works great and does everything I need it to do. I manage 4 Twitter accounts, and am a heavy Twitter user.
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On the Mac, the current version of Tweetbot doesn't look out-of-place. On the iPad, the old textured UI discourages me from using it. I'll usually reach for my iPhone instead. I'd rather put up with the iPhone's smaller screen than the iPad client's dated interface.

Why Tapbots prioritizes everything above their iPad client is beyond me. They've even updated Calcbot and released an App.net client (!) in the interim.
 
Well, Tweetbot on the iPad is functioning great. On the other hand I installed my previous Twitter client last night, Tweetlogix, and I must say that especially it's dark lay-out is beautiful and it has a much more modern look. It is only for the fact that I want syncing between my iPhone, iPad and iMac that I keep using Tweetbot on my iPad instead of Tweetlogix (on the iPhone, Tweetbot has a nice dark layout).
 
Gameboy70 said:
Why Tapbots prioritizes everything above their iPad client is beyond me. They've even updated Calcbot and released an App.net client (!) in the interim.
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Tweetbot and Calcbot for Mac are a separate developer from the iOS apps and Netbot was released years ago. It's not even available from the App Store anymore.
 
It's a shame that Tweetbot doesn't have updated clients for OS X and the iPad. Their iPhone client is the best Twitter client, but I stopped using it and prefer the native Twitter experience, offered by the Twitter app.
 
TweetBot 2 for Mac had better have support for Twitter Cards (I'm tired of seeing links instead of the actual image/video). It would also be nice if they offered a view/list of new followers and Retweets like the official Twitter app. Other than those two things, I can't think of anything beyond a UI refresh that TweetBot needs.
 
They need to update the friggin iPad Version First! They release a new version for the iPhone but completely ignore the iPad. We don't need an updated Mac version right now Tapbots! Give us an updated version for the iPad that's more in line with iPhone version.
 
CarlJ said:
FWIW, Twitterrific does have a Mac client. I've haven't been too active on Twitter lately, but my feeling from a while back was that Twitterrific was the better iOS client (and Universal as well), while Tweetbot was the better client on OS X.

I started out on iOS with Tweetbot, and was a fan/supporter for a long time, then when something in it broke for a while, I switched over to Twitterrific, liked it better, and never really looked back. When Tweetbot 3 came came out for the iPhone, everyone sang its praises from rooftops, so I thought, "so many well known folks are glowingly recommending Tweetbot now, surely they must be right," and I tried it again. Nope, Twitterrific was still way better, plus Tweetbot looks/feels horribly old/clunky now. And still no even-semi-modern iPad client for Tweetbot, and it's a separate purchase. Did I mention Twitterrific is Universal?
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It's still the same, Twitterrific is the best client on iOS but on Mac, TweetBot is better.

Keep in mind Twitterrific for Mac hasn't been updated in more than two years either: http://9to5mac.com/2014/11/25/twitterrific-5-twitters-war-on-developers/

The Twitterrific developers are leaning of not ever releasing a new version of the Mac app because of the token issues.

petvas said:
It's a shame that Tweetbot doesn't have updated clients for OS X and the iPad. Their iPhone client is the best Twitter client, but I stopped using it and prefer the native Twitter experience, offered by the Twitter app.
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Bingo. You just fell into Twitter's trap. Why do you think Twitter is limiting the apps from having unlimited users? They don't want these third party apps, they want everyone on Twitter's BS "native experience", so they can push their own ads onto us via their own ads platform.

They can't even sync timeline, DMs, and so on, something that third party apps have figured out many years ago.

Also since this article is talking about the Mac app, Twitter's Mac app is pathetically useless and their iPad app is even worse.
 
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