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In Twitter's perfect world, Tweetbot wouldn't exist.
Like Tweetdeck, Twitterific and Echofon, Tweetbot is a third-party Twitter client, giving iPhone users access to their tweets, replies, retweets and direct messages. For $2, it also happens to be really good.
Tweetbot excels at the little things, like the ability to tap a tweet for a list of drop-down options, to reply by triple-tapping, or to see an entire conversation by swiping left-to-right over a tweet. You can also view a list of retweets, a feature not available in Twitter's own app.
So far, Tweetbot has been warmly received by tech writers. While that's great for Twitter the service, it's a problem for Twitter the company.
See, Twitter doesn't like these third-party clients that closely resemble its own apps. In a message to developers last month, Ryan Sarver of Twitter's platform team said the company doesn't want anyone developing any more clients aimed at consumers. Tweetbot has been in development for about a year, so presumably it was allowed to live despite Twitter's new policy.
Sarver said the policy exists to reduce confusion for users and to enforce good privacy practices, but there may be an ulterior motive: Without control over the client, Twitter will have a harder time making money. Apps like Tweetbot are free to ignore the money-making measures that Twitter introduces, such as the infamous (and now non-existent) Quickbar.
It'd be easier to accept Twitter's stance if the company's own apps and website were flawless. But as TweetBot proves, there's always room for improvement.
As Twitter has decided to focus on simplicity, its iPhone app is now a shadow of its former self for more advanced users (and for Twitter, search and lists apparently qualify as advanced features). Thankfully, there are some very good alternatives on market and among those, Tweetbot has long been my favorite. Today, the app's developers launched version 2.0 of Tweetbot and it's a worthy upgrade to what was already – in my view – the best iPhone client for iOS.
Speed and New Features
The first thing you will likely notice when you start Tweetbot 2.0 is that it is significantly faster than previous versions. Searches, for example, now feel like they take a quarter of the time to appear on your screen.
Besides the speed, though, the app also now sports a number of new features. The updated timeline view, for example, now lets you immediately click on links and usernames. Before, you first had to select a tweet before these links became active. The timeline now also features in-line image thumbnails that let you quickly view an image with just one click.
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Another nifty new feature is support for Readability as a mobilizer service. Just like Apple's Reader feature lets you see a text-only view of a website, you can now set Tweetbot to immediately see a text-only view of any link you click on (or you can toggle back and forth between the Readability view and the regular page).
Tweetbot For Ios
Here is the full list of new features:[list]
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- Updated timeline view
- Image thumbnails in timeline
- Links now colored and single-tappable
- 'Retweeted by' bar now integrated and tappable
- Cell colors adjusted for better contrast
- New direct message view.
- Redesigned 'New Tweets' bar (Can be dismissed by tap and configured in Settings > Display)
- Timed auto-refresh (timeline, mentions, and DM's will refresh every 5 minutes)
- Readability added as mobilizer service
- Much improved tweet replies view
- Links in user's bio now tappable
- 'Huge' font size option in Settings > Display
- Improved scrolling performance[/list]