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Tweetie for Mac out

Meh. I'll stick with Nambu until I read that Tweetie consumes less memory.

Me wonders how many Twitter clients we actually need... ?
 
Melrose said:
Meh. I'll stick with Nambu until I read that Tweetie consumes less memory.

Me wonders how many Twitter clients we actually need... ?
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For me TwitterFox does what I need. I just wish it updated so that when I got home I didn't have 20 unread tweets (I know; not that many) since I had gotten them all during the day at work.

With TF I can post, reply, and retweet w/o ever leaving the browser, and it's pretty nice.
 
As much as i don't really wanna pay $15 i will probably do so since i hate ad-supported apps and don't like air apps on mac cos of the lack of font smoothing
 
Giving this a try now. Looks nice, but I have a question. What's with the completely pointless icon in the menubar? All that it does it take me to the app and then hide it after clicking it a second time. There's no way to disable the icon and no drop-down menu when you click it...

Unless I'm missing something.
 
glasserp said:
Giving this a try now. Looks nice, but I have a question. What's with the completely pointless icon in the menubar? All that it does it take me to the app and then hide it after clicking it a second time. There's no way to disable the icon and no drop-down menu when you click it...

Unless I'm missing something.
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Not much but it also turns blue if there are new tweets. :eek:
 
I don't see the big deal of Tweetie on both iPhone/iPod touch and Mac.

Iconfactory's Twitterrific works way better and it doesn't take a lot of screen real estate.

IMHO, the Tweetie icon is out of place.
 
I have gone back to Bluebird, which I went to over the Payed Version of Twitteriffic...

Saying this... the original version (Now Updated) didn't send passwords via HTTPS :O So you password isn't sent in the clear :eek:

That is a reason why I changed back so quickly... I will probhably check it out in a month or so...

Anyhows... Smoking Apples Blog posted this review
Smoking Apple Blog Tweetie Review
 
MAC-PRO-DEMON said:
I have gone back to Bluebird, which I went to over the Payed Version of Twitteriffic...

Saying this... the original version (Now Updated) didn't send passwords via HTTPS :O So you password isn't sent in the clear :eek:

That is a reason why I changed back so quickly... I will probhably check it out in a month or so...

Anyhows... Smoking Apples Blog posted this review
Smoking Apple Blog Tweetie Review
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Version 1.0.1 seems to add SSL authentication.
 
minik said:
I don't see the big deal of Tweetie on both iPhone/iPod touch and Mac.

Iconfactory's Twitterrific works way better and it doesn't take a lot of screen real estate.

IMHO, the Tweetie icon is out of place.
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Twitterific is slow, clumsy and honestly a bit crappy compared to this. Dedicated tweet window (with a global shortcut!) alone makes this miles better. Automatic url shortening, image adding. In-app image viewing. It also looks nicer and runs faster.

Tweetie on the iPhone and now the Mac are fast, lean and fully featured. They're also made in such a way as to make tweeting easier and faster. Of course they're also beautiful. Thank you Loren for great apps, you can happily have my $20 for both.

Melrose said:
Meh. I'll stick with Nambu until I read that Tweetie consumes less memory.

Me wonders how many Twitter clients we actually need... ?
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Well Tweetie definitely starts faster than Nambu...
 
Manic Mouse said:
Twitterific is slow, clumsy and honestly a bit crappy compared to this. Dedicated tweet window (with a global shortcut!) alone makes this miles better. Automatic url shortening, image adding. In-app image viewing. It also looks nicer and runs faster.

Tweetie on the iPhone and now the Mac are fast, lean and fully featured. They're also made in such a way as to make tweeting easier and faster. Of course they're also beautiful. Thank you Loren for great apps, you can happily have my $20 for both.



Well Tweetie definitely starts faster than Nambu...
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Twitterific 3.2 did a fine job for me. I really like the small footprint, no icon on the Dock, transparent UI. If you look at that particular app, shortcut is unnecessary. Personally, I started to dislike any shorten URL service on the web. It discourages me to click on it unless there is an expand button. Imaging add-in is a nice feature, but I rarely use it on a desktop situation.

Just now, I begin to use Bluebird app.

In the past, I kept going back to Twitterific after the frustration with TweetDeck.

On the iPhone, I use TwitterFon.
 
minik said:
I don't see the big deal of Tweetie on both iPhone/iPod touch and Mac.

Iconfactory's Twitterrific works way better and it doesn't take a lot of screen real estate.

IMHO, the Tweetie icon is out of place.
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You are quite possibly the only person that I know of that thinks tweetie on the iPhone is not a big deal. Tweetie came out at a time when there were no less than 5 apps out there both free and paid, and it utterly crushed all of them due to it being FAST and ELEGANT. And it looks like tweetie for the mac will be doing the same.
 
Compile 'em all said:
You are quite possibly the only person that I know of that thinks tweetie on the iPhone is not a big deal. Tweetie came out at a time when there were no less than 5 apps out there both free and paid, and it utterly crushed all of them due to it being FAST and ELEGANT. And it looks like tweetie for the mac will be doing the same.
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okay, okay. I think I use Twitter a different way. I didn't know Tweetie until I read about it from people who I followed. From time to time, I stick with texting and Hahlo.com.

I will read more about Tweetie on both iPhone and desktop Mac and re-evaluate them. :)
 
MacAndy74 said:
Disappointing. And I'm supposed to pay for it? :(

TweetDeck does what I want, for free.
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You don't have to pay for it. You just have to deal with some very sporadic and unobtrusive ads if you don't. Plus TweetDeck's Adobe Air framework makes it a HUGE resource hog. Tweetie is native Cocoa so it uses much less computing power to accomplish the same task.
 
MacAndy74 said:
Disappointing. And I'm supposed to pay for it? :(

TweetDeck does what I want, for free.
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No one is saying you HAVE to use it ... thats why there are many different apps with differing levels of functionality and price...

I prefer the sleek and polished feel of tweetie mac and don't generally like Air apps for their lack of smooth appearance but if you like tweetdeck then good
 
synagence said:
No one is saying you HAVE to use it ... thats why there are many different apps with differing levels of functionality and price...

I prefer the sleek and polished feel of tweetie mac and don't generally like Air apps for their lack of smooth appearance but if you like tweetdeck then good
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You're right Tweet Deck is quite unattractive. Tweetie is growing on me. :)

Edit: Just purchased a license. (-:
 
minik said:
Personally, I started to dislike any shorten URL service on the web. It discourages me to click on it unless there is an expand button.
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Tweetie gives you the option to view an expanded version of the shortened URL before navigating to that page.
 
It's a small touch but I like that you can close the window then click on the menubar icon when it turns blue to see updates.

Only quibble is that I wish it would sync with the iPhone version.
 
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