![]() For instance, Twitterrific would have gotten my vote, except for the fact that you can’t search people, only subjects. It’s often the small, yet important features that make or break a Twitter client for me. I really get the sense that every detail has been thought of here. Where every other app has fallen short in some way, TweetBot excels. Tapbot’s TweetBot app is hands down the best Twitter client I’ve used on both the Apple iPhone and iPad. Tapbots made some refinements here too since the prior iPhone version. Here’s a look at Direct Messages in TweetBot for iPad. Tapping the camera icon gives you options to either pull in a photo from your library or let you take a new one. Either tap the tag icon, or type the hashtag symbol and just start typing. ![]() It works the same way for hashtags as well. TweetBot automatically dwindles down the possibilities so all you have to do is tap the username. Then begin typing their name or username. To mention another Twitter user, either type the symbol or tap the profile icon. In portrait mode the navigation menu appears condensed with only the icons showing to leave more room for tweets.Ĭomposing a new tweet is similar to the iPhone version. In landscape mode it appears with full text labels. While all these different timeline views are taking place on the right side of the iPad screen, the navigation menu is on the left. Don’t like the New Tweets notification bar? You can make it less persistent in Settings. TweetBot updates automatically every five minutes unless you manually refresh. Tapping on actions shows even more.Īnother great feature to the timeline is this notification of how many new tweets have come in while you’ve been browsing. If you can’t remember the gestures, tap once on a tweet to reveal a menu of options without leaving the timeline. Swiping the other direction, right to left reveals all of the replies to a tweet. Swiping from left to right on a tweet reveals the conversation view. You can choose to have the triple tap Retweet, Favorite, Translate or View in Favstar instead. You can change this behavior in settings, though. Triple tapping on a tweet, by default, gives you options to reply. If you’ve used TweetBot’s iPhone counterpart, you’re already aware of how the gestures and taps work. Double tapping a tweet will single out that tweet and show more detail and options. Turn on Readability in TweetBot using the toggle switch at the top of the page viewer. Here’s that same article with Readability turned on. Check out this photo of an article from TechCrunch someone linked to without Readability turned on. Readability removes the clutter surrounding that article you’re reading on a website a friend shared with you. You can change font size, user’s display names, the format in which dates are shown and more.Īnother added feature to TweetBot is Readability support. There are plenty of aspects to customize about the timeline, too. This replaces the timeline with the list you select. To look at a list, tap on the icon at the top left of the timeline view. This has been improved in the 2.0 update for iPhone too. I’d always end up accidentally tapping on the tweet itself instead. This is an improvement from the previous version of TweetBot for iPhone, as I’ve always found it difficult to properly tap on the link to a photo. One of the first things I noticed is that most pictures appear in the timeline. ![]() Tweetbot, on the other hand, is beautifully designed, uncluttered, is fluid to use and has all of the features you’d ever in a Twitter client. Twittelator looks unpolished and Twitterrific has no option to specifically search for users. Each had their own separate issues: The official app is frequently buggy and crashes in addition to having an odd user interface. For the past year or so, I’ve been begrudgingly bouncing from app to app for Twitter - The official Twitter app, Twittelator, and Twitterrific to name a few.
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