Tweetbot 4 - rehabilitation of the legendary Twitter client

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

After the introduction of strict restrictions on Twitter for third-party clients and the release of iOS 7 with a rethought design concept, Tweetbot noticeably lost ground. The new cost turned out to be unjustified for many, and the iPad version, until recently, still allowed you to feel the spirit of skeuomorphism. Finally, Tapbots has released a long-awaited update - a universal application filled with colossal development efforts.

Let's start with the mobile version, although it hasn't changed much since the third iteration of Tweetbot. The interface has new animation, a redesign of the personal profile page, and a horizontal mode, in which on the iPhone 6 Plus and 6S Plus, the ribbon divides the screen with a new section of Activity.

The appearance of the latter is one of the main changes in Tweetbot 4 and the result of long efforts of the developers. The thing is that for quite a long time the data that would make it possible to create a convenient feed of all notifications, as in a standard Twitter client, were not available to third-party developers. So the Tapbots programmers had to look for alternatives that eventually made this section possible. It doesn't group retweets, favorites, and new followers like Twitter does, but it's still handy to view your account activity in this section.

Nearby is the Stats section, which was created for the same purposes, but provides information in the form of a chart of notifications for the week and the total number of new subscribers, retweets and "favorites" for the day. Tweetbot has always been known for its flexibility and convenience for those who use Twitter commercially, and in the fourth iteration, the developers confirm this again.

The fans have been waiting for the second important change for more than one year. Tweetbot 4 is a universal app, which means the iPad version is finally getting an update. The novelty has completely adopted the design and functionality of the mobile version, and if for an iPhone user this is a natural update, then for tablet owners it is a real event.

There are no ads, the feed is neatly loaded in real time, iOS 9 multitasking is supported, and you will also find Stats and Activity among the tabs. In landscape orientation, they, by analogy with the iPhone 6 Plus, share the screen with a feed of tweets.

Tweetbot 4 feels like a benchmark among Twitter clients. All its disadvantages: the lack of some preview cards for websites and media files, viewing users who added a tweet to their favorites the old fashioned way through Favstar, and a high price tag that will soon double in size - dictated by the strange policy of the social network and did not prevent the developers of Tapbots create the best Twitter reading and working app.