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Tweetbot has Hatched!

It’s hard to believe that it has been over a year since we started working on our little Twitter client. During the time, Twitter didn’t have a native client. It was about 2 and a half months after when they decided to purchase Tweetie for the iPhone. It came as quite a shock for us and many remember us writing a blog post announcing our work on Tweetbot as well as questioning its future. Well fast forward a year and here we are launching our most anticipated app!

What Makes Tweetbot So Special?

Yes, Tweetbot has all the polish and shine you’ve come to expect from a Tapbots app, but that’s not enough to convince everyone to try it. We needed to bring something new to the table.

The most important feature in Tweetbot is its powerful gesture system. This system makes interacting with tweets much more efficient. Want to reference the source of a conversation? Just swipe the tweet to the right. Did someone ask a question on twitter and you are interested in seeing replies? Just swipe to the left. Want tweet details? Double-tap a tweet. You can also double-tap links and a user’s avatar to go straight to the link or user’s profile respectively. Want to quickly block a spammer? Hold down on the user’s avatar for quick options. The same goes for accessing link options.

The second big feature is being able to use your lists as your timeline. Many other clients provide access to lists, but they don’t seem to make them any more important than Twitter does themselves. We wanted to make lists as useful as your main timeline. Sometimes you are following too many people and want to view tweets from smaller groups of people. Tweetbot makes them very accessible.

Another problem we wanted to solve was having more than 5 items in the tab bar. Many apps waste a tab with the “more” button. We decided to keep all 5 tabs as primary navigation and allow the user to quickly select a hidden tab item from either of the last two tabs. Just hold down on one of the tabs and select a new one.

Watch the video demo and learn more about Tweetbot.

Tweetbot is Missing Feature X!

Before you instantly dismiss Tweetbot from having every single feature on the planet, keep in mind that this is version 1.0. We have a big list of features that just didn’t make the first release. Some take longer than others or are just not as important. The bottom line is, we had to ship at some point. We felt Tweetbot in its current state made a good 1.0 and we decided to ship now instead of 2-3 months later. So please be patient with us as we continue to make Tweetbot a better client. Landscape support for composing, viewing images, websites, and videos is coming. We are also looking into our options for native push notifications. We’ve got a big list.

Launch…Crash??

A small percentage of users might have been disappointed to have Tweetbot crash on launch. If you are still running an iPhone 3G or 2nd Gen iPod touch, we are very sorry for this issue. There’s a bug in Apple’s compiler and we screwed up by not testing it enough and catching it earlier. But the good news is, we already submitted a fix for this and have asked Apple to kindly expedite the approval process. We hope it comes out soon. To reiterate, this only affects the older devices.

What Next?

We’ve had many people ask if we will do an iPad or Mac OS version of the app. The answer right now is, “We don’t know.” We will wait and see how things pan out regarding Twitter and the life of [new] 3rd party apps in general.

Thanks!

We truly thank all the alpha/beta testers and our localizers for their hard work, support, and feedback. We also thank our customers for supporting us over the past 3 years. We would not be able to live our dream creating great software without you.

So what are you waiting for? Grab Tweetbot now before the sale ends!

Not convinced?

Here are a few mentions about Tweetbot from various sources:

“Go buy it, trust me. I’ve been using beta versions for the past few weeks and it quickly became my favorite Twitter client.”John Gruber, Daring Fireball

“It’s simply very well designed and great for power users — particularly those who use Twitter Lists.”MG Siegler, TechCrunch

“Tweetbot was a risk for Tapbots, but they managed to build the best Twitter client for iPhone I’ve ever had.”Federico Viticci, MacStories

“Tweetbot has more personality than any other Twitter client out there.”Shawn Blanc

“If you spend a good deal of your life on Twitter, then you couldn’t find a more pleasant client to spend it with than Tweetbot.”Matthew Panzarino, The Next Web

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  • Steve Keys said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Re: iPad version,

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  • eMxPi said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Any universal binary to come ? for my iPad and to remove twitter official App

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  • cesarerasini said:
  • April 14th, 2011

I think it’s a great 1.0. Tweetbot has my heart!

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App is awesome. As I said on the Twitter: I would rather pay for something good than have crappy software for free. Twitter for iPhone is nice, but sooner or later they will dickbar us again. Go Bots go!

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  • Nico said:
  • April 14th, 2011

I don’t know how I feel about the missing landscape support (at least in the initial release) since it is an essenial feature, especially for a Twitter app, but I will give Tweetbot a try and buy it anyway!

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Really enjoying Tweetbot so far, the layout is clean and the configurability a bonus.

As you mention, push notifications/badges would be a great next step (I find I use DM as an SMS alternative) but I’m happy to wait!

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  • Daniel said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Ooooh! I really love this app!!! I downloaded it tday and I’ve never been so satisfied with an app. But I would like so much a version for iPad… It would be awesome

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  • Laura said:
  • April 14th, 2011

I’m not one to buy apps, especially when there are a ton of Twitter apps out there already, and the actual Twitter app is great – but I took the dive and purchased this guy and wow! It’s seriously awesome! Thanks for all the hard work – would love a desktop version of this baby. :)

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  • Zokho said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Is the bug on all iPhone 3G, or just a few ?
And please, make this app on iPad, it will be amazing !!

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  • chips said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Tweetbot is so cute thanks :)

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  • Craig Paterson said:
  • April 14th, 2011

I saw that Tweetbot was available on iTunes App Store after reading about it on Twitter last night. Absolutely awesome work as always from the Tapbots team. It is now my iPhone Twitter client of choice, and will remain so. Great UI and easy to set up and use.
Looking forward to all the additions and features planned for the future.
Keep up the great work ;)

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A Mac version would be very welcome!!
And with syncing, just like Echofon!!

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  • Jason said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Really truly love this app and all your apps, but kinda disappointed that there’s no iPad version of the app.. Hopefully soon!

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  • SkepticalPete said:
  • April 14th, 2011

As long as third parties are putting out superior Twitter clients like this, they’d be crazy to crack down more than they already have. Please, please make this a universal app; it’s a shame to have to go to a different app when I swap devices. And a Mac version? Well, I’d buy it!

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  • Kevin said:
  • April 14th, 2011

I think it is great that you are not rushing to pump out an iPad app.

Though the interface works (and looks) beautifully on the iPhone, it does not translate well for the iPad.

Hopefully we can see the same kind of well thought out and polished interface on the iPad as we are on the iPhone.

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  • march. said:
  • April 14th, 2011

congrats! what a great app! i’ve already ditched all other twitter apps i was playing around with, including ‘tweetie2′.

universal? yes, please.
landscape? yes, please.
native push? yes, please.

but more than anything else:

please consider supporting status.net [aka identi.ca] which is the free and open alternative to twitter. it has a twitter compatible API [see http://status.net/wiki/API so should be easy to implement.

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  • Jeff B said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Love it so far. Only miss Landscape typing and Instapaper/Google Mobilizer support for links. Other than that, as fantastic a 1.0 as anyone’s ever had.

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  • Kimh said:
  • April 14th, 2011

My feature request: I really, really need to see how many tweets a user has posted. It’s one of the most impt. metrics for what it means to follow them & what their twitter style is.

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  • chrjohns said:
  • April 14th, 2011

I second the request for a quick mobilizer (instapaper/google/readability) that displays the text within the app. Only thing missing for me. Beautiful app.

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  • David said:
  • April 14th, 2011

I really like Tweetbot. Elegant. Is there a way to email the full content of a tweet? I see how to email a url but not the full tweet.

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  • Kimh said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Oh, and one more: the ability to select text within the tweet.

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  • Marc said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Amazing as always guys. Can’t wait to see what’s coming next, updates or otherwise.

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  • Onlinr said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Very good app, beautiful design as always. But some features need to be included in future updates. Please add landscape mode and (Huge request!!) Readability support. ?h, and interface animation is a little sluggish, even on iPhone 4.

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  • David said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Just found it. It was right there.

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  • HLP said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Wow, nice rip off of Plume’s functionality.

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  • Toni said:
  • April 14th, 2011

I haven’t found one thing I dislike about this app. I LOVE it.

p.s quit hating @HLP

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If you do make an iPad version, we’ll immediately buy it all over again. Seriously.

Awesome work on Tweetbot on iPhone!

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  • Gabriel said:
  • April 14th, 2011

I’ve been waiting so anxious for Tweetbot and I’m not disappointed. IIt’s missing some features but I believe they will come soon. But please make versions for iPad and Mac (really need/want them).
Thank you for the beauty and innovation!

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Old RT style option is a MUST HAVE…

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  • Eric said:
  • April 14th, 2011

I’ve had it on my iPhone for five minutes and it’s already my favorite client. The one thing it needs is to rotate to horizontal!

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  • David Chu said:
  • April 14th, 2011

I bought this app for my iPad cuz I couldnt wait. No regrets.

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Wow, has it really been a year of waiting? I have every Tapbot and use them all a great deal: Pastebot (& Sync) replaced the default Notes app; Calcbot replaced the default Calculator app, and guess what? Tweetbot just got me to boot Twitter’s own client. Excellent work all and thanks.

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  • maique said:
  • April 14th, 2011

already requested on twitter: bit.ly login details…

apart from that i would like to be able to edit the list order, and that’s it. perfect app. loving it.

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  • JNGold said:
  • April 14th, 2011

+1 for an iPad and/or Mac version WITH syncing. I think this is pretty important now days because many people tend to “tweet” on difference machines/devices.

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  • Sujal said:
  • April 14th, 2011

I would love Instapaper support. My existing twitter use is at least half about finding stuff to read. Tweetbot is great for the conversation use case.

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  • peter said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Ooooh, damn! Do you really require iOS4? Just switch that build flag and make it available to us poor 3.1 users! Phulease!

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  • Richard Johnson said:
  • April 14th, 2011

I agree with Sujal, Instapaper support would be a great plus. I would also love to see an iPad version. Preferably a universal version, but if it’s great enough I may just buy another version. Native push will be nice, but I like the custom sounds Boxcar provides, so if you do it, have a cool sound that’s not like a text message.

Keep up the great work! I’m recommending this to my friends.

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  • Brad M said:
  • April 14th, 2011

As other said, Great App, but I am missing iPad version. And landscape support would be nice.

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@HLP – Really? We’ve never even heard of that app before.

@Sujal – Instapaper is already supported. You just have to login first in the account specific settings.

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@jimbras – Select “Quote Tweet” … that almost works the same, except it doesn’t add RT at the beginning automatically.

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  • Jim G said:
  • April 14th, 2011

To the few people looking for instapaper support, it’s there now. Now how do I look at a single users timeline, that I can’t find?

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  • Tom said:
  • April 14th, 2011

I am so incredibly disappointed there still isn’t a version for Android, Windows Phone 7, iPad and Mac.

Just kidding. Awesome release guys. Congrats.

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  • sami said:
  • April 14th, 2011

You guys have really done a great job. Loving the app with every tap! However, was a little disappointed when I saw the email tweet composing window… Check Twitter for iPhone or Osfoora and you’ll know what I mean… Come on guys, you can do better :P

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@Jim G – There are tab buttons at the bottom of every user profile.

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  • Richard Johnson said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Just went exploring and found the Instapaper support. My bad!

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Tweetbot is awesome, it is beautiful and it is ready to replace Twitter, but Tweetbot crashed after I edit my lists, and now it opens and freezes. How can I fix this?

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TapBots apps are pretty much a no-brainer purchase! I have purchased every TapBots app and TweetBot is no exception. TweetBot is now my iPhone Twitter client. Way more streamlined than the “official” Twitter iPhone client.

Looking forward to the Landscape update and really hoping that an iPad version is developed. I would have no reservations buying a seperate iPad version (non-universal app). TweetBot is just that will put together.

Thanks guys!!!

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  • timtams said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Awesome awesome app.
I’m just waiting to use it as my new main twitter client, but the only feature i need is Instapaper Mobiliser.

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  • David Harrison said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Absolutely lovely, and well worth the $2 it cost.

One small nit: the “Add to List” command appears even for usernames that are already in a list, and does not show those users as being in the list. It’d be very helpful to be able to remove usernames from lists right from the list timeline.

Some things I’d like for the future are:

- Instapaper mobilizer support
- an iPad version :-)
- a Mac version :-) :-)

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  • Bart said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Great app, especially for 1.0. The only thing I don’t really get is the difference between the left-to-right and right-to-left swipe. I feel like even if I understood the conceptual difference, the use case of trying both is strange?

It took me a while to find one that works on the left-to-right swipe too, even though a right swipe often gives me a “No Related Tweets” screen. So why the failed bounce on the left side, but false positive on the right side?

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  • John said:
  • April 14th, 2011

I dont use Twitter, but i bought tweetbot anyway to bask in you design goodness! Keep up the good work and keep the apps coming! You guys should do a notification app like notifyMe or TellMeLater! Both those apps work pretty well, but i think you guys can come up with something new that will blow them out of the game ;). Or a todo list? Or a sleeptalk recorder or something fun like that.

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  • Bart said:
  • April 14th, 2011

To add to my previous comment… if I swipe left on an @reply, I see the full conversation (the tweet I swiped, the original tweet, plus any replies to it), but if I swipe right I see only part of the conversation (the tweet I swiped + the original without any other replies to the original).

BUT, if I’m looking at an original tweet that has replies, swiping left does nothing but swiping right shows me the complete conversation. In both cases there’s no indication if there’s anything on the left or right swipes and I have to look in different places to get a complete picture of the conversation. I think these views just need to be combined…

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  • Bart said:
  • April 14th, 2011

(Sorry, when I said “swipe left”, I meant “reveal the left side”, i.e. swipe left-to-right.)

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Will be great

- Push. Badge alert per tab
- Post to Facebook
- Custom URL Shortener, i use Karmacracy. Or let bit.ly user/pass
- Tweets per page, choose a number
- Old Style RT
- some action to go to “home” quick
- I want to know if I follow somebody in the main profile screen, not tapping

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  • Bob B said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Landscape support and I’m a happy camper, great work.

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  • petter said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Big kudos guys! Awesome work. Really looking forward for things to come. Rock on.

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  • Arnoud said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Indeed the design looks great and tapbot-worthy. I bought the application even though the reviews did not convince me but wanted to support you guys.

The app itself actually disappointed me. I like the innovation in gestures, but it takes me one tap extra (and more thinking) to get to my lists/other timelines and one tap extra to open @names or urls compared to TweetList.

Therefore, even though the UI design of TweetList is not as good, the UX is faster for me so I won’t be switching to Tweetbot.. (yet?)

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  • James said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Love Tweetbot, but Landscape mode needs to get added pronto. Entering text in portrait mode is god awful in any app. Integration with other service would be nice, but I can wait a long time for those.

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VoiceOver compatibility? (You know this, but the really good devs actually test it. VIPhone mailing list can try to break the shipping version if you want to make improvements on V1.1 or whatever.)

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Amazing Job! All that is needed is an iPad version. Hope you guys make tons of money so the iPad version doesn’t take a year. ;)

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  • Dave said:
  • April 14th, 2011

I third the request for Instapaper/Google Mobilizer support for links — they removed that recently from the Twitter app, and I miss it to death.

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It is a really neat and great App, but the only thing missing for me is Posterous support for images (and video). Right now I really like it and that would make it perfect :D

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The best app I’ve bought since… since I bout Calcbot; seriously you guys seem to make up my entire app purchase list at the moment.

A great twitter client that actually makes twitter lists useful!

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Tweetbot is a very polished app. Love the user interface, and most things about it but it is not quite as good as it could be in a small number of areas. Some things take more taps to accomplish than Tweetlist. And that’s a pain.

Since I only browse with lists I love the way lists can be used in place of the main timeline. Very elegantly done. I’ve seen a few reviews that seem to believe that no other apps do this. They overlook the fact that Tweetlist does (as well as offering the full timeline), and until now I have been using it for that very reason.

I love the swipe left and right gestures to see the source of the conversation and the replies … but if there are no replies I don’t think it should go to the next screen. Waste of time and space. The tweet should just pop back as it does if there’s no source.

In theory you can double tap a link to view to the link … but it seems a bit hit and miss. Sometimes it goes to the link. Other times it goes to the tweet details. Tweetlist works much better in this respect. In Tweetlist you just tap a link and you view the link. Or tap a link and hold to get the following options:

Open
Open in Safari
Read Later
Email
Copy Link

This is a much faster, more useful and more convenient gesture, with no ambiguity in it’s function.

I don’t much like having to tap once to get the actions drawer, which then requires another tap on the tweet to close it again … and then sometimes it closes, sometimes it goes to the tweet details and sometimes it goes to a link in the tweet. It’s too unpredictable. I prefer Tweetlist’s method. It is much faster and more reliable.

In Tweetlist if you tap on a tweet and hold (as opposed to tapping and holding a link), the following options pop up:

Reply
Direct Message
Retweet
Retweet with comment

If you double tap on a tweet the following options pop up:

Translate
Favorite
Email Tweet
Copy Text

This all makes Tweetlist faster and more useable than Tweetbot in day to day use. But it is also true that Tweetlist doesn’t have as nice an interface, and its interface is also (inexplicably) inconsistent between tweets/mentions and DM’s, which is really annoying.

Having said that the tap and hold menu in Tweetbot is good. Again very elegantly done. I would just like other options to be as fast and reliable to use as Tweetlist.

I like the hidden tabs feature very much, but would like options to see my own Tweets and access my profile from there rather than have to go back to the accounts page then tap on the account etc.

My final observations are that translations are also much better implemented in Tweetlist. Check it out to see what I mean. On the other hand there is no support in either app for translating TO other languages. I do need to do this quite regularly, and for that purpose I use Hootsuite, which handles translations in both directions very elegantly.

I am happy to use Tweetbot as my main twitter client, but for speed and streamlined workflow reasons may well revert back to Tweetlist until Tweetbot can accomplish tasks as quickly.

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Im in love with all your apps as Im sure most people are. Your new Tweetbot is by far my favourite and worth every Penny.

I have 2 Questions:

1- are there any plans to add push notification to the app? Boxcar is lame

2- Are there any plans for an iPad app? I would love to be able to use Tapbots apps for all my twitter needs.

Thanks for the awesome Apps Keep up the good work!

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  • Alvin Ng said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Great app with great look. Only one request, Inline photo preview.

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  • MILE said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Maybe I have missed it but is there a setting to select your preferred picture upload service

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So many people mention lack of support for Instapaper, both in Tweetbot and in Twitter for iPhone. They’re wrong!

Both apps support Instapaper. The app, in both cases, just have to be connected to your Instapaper account via the settings in the app.

If they didn’t have Instapaper support they’d be as good as useless to me. But that is not the case at all.

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  • Hor said:
  • April 14th, 2011

Good app but some important flaws:
-no old RT
-no Instapaper or Readability mobilizer

So I still use with Echofon.

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Amazing client who replaced my old favourite Tweetings as well as the old Twitter client.

Here are my favourite coming-next features:

- Please copy new Twitters autocomplete @user feature. Yours is too modal and takes me out of writing a tweet.
- Seeing who retweeted me is too complicated even if I’ve set the RT function as a tab and default view to My Tweets, Retweeted. I have to double tap the tweet, then scroll down to the Retweets function. Something like a tap-bar menu item would be good here.
- ditto with watching a users stream. It’s not clear that the tab bar has changed and are in context to a profile instead of being universal. (Nor should it ever if you care enough about UX)
- The swipe left/right have THE SAME ICON, when there are icons that represents those actions (as confusing as they already are) elsewhere in the app. I understand the spinning pokeball is cool, but you have really chosen form over function here. Swiping gestures are hard to discover enough as it is without having to make a guess to what the icons mean.

I care less about:
- horisontal compositing (but would like horisontal image and web preview)
- Old RT (/via is my preferred quote style)
- iPad app needs a complete rethink. Take your time.

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Please do an iPad app!!!!!

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  • Felipe said:
  • April 14th, 2011

I bought all of your apps, i love each of them.

Just need landscape mode, native push notifications, universal app and a mac version (to sync all) to make it perfect.

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  • emassare said:
  • April 15th, 2011

Never used Twitter, never had the use of it.

Because of TweetBot…I’m in now!

Thanks for the awesome work! Keep on going with your apps, they’re just fantastic!

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  • cramejs said:
  • April 15th, 2011

Please make an iPad version :]
It’ll be awesome

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Of course you guys came out with this just days after I ditched my iPhone. Any Android version in the works?

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  • Andy said:
  • April 15th, 2011

Always love your work and this is no different, I really love the Tweetbot client. Would love to see what you would be able to design for the IPad or Mac. Great start, hopefully there is more to come.

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Any change to get this for android and Linux?

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All I need is:
+ Native Push
+ Mac Version
+ Sync between devices.

And this will be my client number 1 !

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First, great job on the app and the UI. It is fast and has been very stable for me. I like the approach to list support, as that is my primary means of reading tweets, not the main timeline.

A “disclaimer” that I have primarily been using Tweetlogix (for whom I have been a beta tester), though also have Tweetlist. I do not use the official Twitter app at all (never have, never will).

A list of needed enhancements (some already noted elsewhere, some I submitted) but am posting here for reference:

1. Landscape mode throughout (yeah, I know it is coming…)

2. Need an icon on tweets that are part of a convo thread, otherwise, you have to presume that a tweet that begins with a “@UserName” may be a reply, when it may just be a mention. It’s a guess…

3. When doing a gap fill on a timeline/list, need to fill above the current position or gap indicator. Right now, it fills below, which means you have to scroll down to find the beginning of the unread tweets and then scroll back up to read them. Keep the current timeline/list position and add the new tweets above it. If some folks prefer the current behavior, then make it a user definable preference (eg. fill above or fill below in Settings).

4. Need Twitlonger support, both in posting a long tweet and in auto-expanding a timeline/list tweet that was posted via Twitlonger.

5. For DM’s, it seems like only the last 100 are displayed, which may all be from a single long convo. This means that you have to go to Twitter.com (or use another app) to see other DMs with other Tweeps. Need to display/cache a larger number.

6. Inline image previews

7. An unread counter badge on the bottom toolbar that updates in real time (counts down) as you scroll and read tweets.

8. As some point, autocomplete for @UserNames in the tweet compose window.

Those are the key missing features for me at present.

Again, thanks for a very nice app and the hard work behind it.

P.S. FWW, I also have Calcbot… :-)

PPS. For those who have commented on InstaPaper and/or ReadItLater support, it is there. Just go to Settings -> Account Settings and select the Twitter account that you want to link. That will bring up a Services menu where you can adjust URL shorteners, Image/video uploads and IP/RiL support. You can then sign in to one of the services that you want to use.

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  • Mike said:
  • April 15th, 2011

If $1.99 is the sale price, what’s the non-sale price? (Just curious.)

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Thanks for a really really great app. Never looked at tapbot apps, mainly because I didn’t know how great you guys are. Noticed the hype, bought it, and 15 minutes later bought all your apps :)

One thing missing for me, global filters, to filter out things like location and listening to crap.

People moaning about native push, get a boxcar account and you’ll never look back.
People moaning about Twitlonger, it’s Twitter ffs. 140 chars is 140 chars. There’s a reason it’s called micro blogging. People in my TL use it == unfollow. Want more then 140? Get a blog and link it.

Thanks Tapbots!!

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Just a quick note on my point #5 above on DMs. There may be an issue with Twitter itself, as when I go to Twitter.com, my older DMs are gone as well. Thus, this appears to not be an issue with Tweetbot.

My other apps are presumably still showing them because of local caching of tweets.

I don’t see an indication anywhere on Twitter.com that only the last 100 DM’s are available, but if somebody can point to a reference on this, I would appreciate it.

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Love the UI work you guys do. Inspiring!

I immediately switched Tweetbot to replace the default Twitter app. Was very intuitive from the get go and visually pleasing.

The only thing I found jarring was double clicking to view links/pics/etc. I’m used to it now but it wasn’t immediately intuitive without watching your demo video.

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  • binarysmurf said:
  • April 15th, 2011

All I would like to see are push notifications and landscape mode. Excellent app!

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  • mazilema said:
  • April 15th, 2011

Great app! Keep up the good work and please bring us native push, landscape mode, Bit.ly login/pass and most impotantly, the iPad Version soon :)

@Mark Jardine thanks for the hint to see a single users timeline.

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  • perpetu8 said:
  • April 16th, 2011

There is no Apple compiler bug, you didn’t compile for armv6 and that’s why it doesn’t work for iPhone 3G and 2nd Gen iPod Touch. Please don’t blame others for your own mistakes. People can take and respect honesty.

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  • supertomaat said:
  • April 16th, 2011

Like all other bots, this one is already my favorite in its category. Still, the app lacks some functionality:

1) Post to Facebook (with a button that stays “on” or “off” for all new tweets for as long as you don’t change it; this button should always be available on the new tweet screen)

2) Moreover, for new tweets:
- hashtag manager for adding # easily
- button that goes to list of people I follow, for adding @ easily
- now playing button: tweet the music you’re listening to

These are basically all the things I like in Twitbird when it comes to creating a new tweet. If these features were added to Tweetbot, there would be no more reason to use anything else.

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  • supertomaat said:
  • April 16th, 2011

I forgot to ask: please add share video via YouTube and Vimeo and photos via Facebook.

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I hope that Tweetbot is made universal and available for the iPad. Now that I’ve used Tweetbot for iPhone, I hate having to use Twitter for iPad.

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  • pppz said:
  • April 16th, 2011

this tweetbot app is really useful, but it would be great if they did an ipad version too

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@perpetu8 if it wasn’t compiled for armv6 it wouldn’t even install on those devices, let alone launch.

You can read about the bug here https://devforums.apple.com/thread/92279

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  • perpetu8 said:
  • April 16th, 2011

@Paul Haddad: thanks for the link, my bad.

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Great app guys!
but i’m starting to miss Landscape (yes, i know is coming) and Instapaper. I think these are the features that will make Tweetbot perfect.
Anyway, you’re already on my iphone’s dock.

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  • Celso said:
  • April 16th, 2011

Hi could someone explain,wy I can not login into my acount, repeat over and over the same thing, you password is incorrect plese try again, everything was fine until this afternoon,any idea???

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Ok, my bad: Instapaper and Read It Later are both supported: you just have to go to specific settings where you can define services.
But I miss Landscape mode.

Now, Tweetbot is almost perfect.

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Add me to the list of those wanting an iPad version. I like this app so much, I use it on the iPad as it is. Nicely thought out and implemented. Eager to see future iterations.

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  • JT said:
  • April 16th, 2011

After downloading the latest iPhone update 4.3.2, I downloaded Tweetbot. It keeps failing my login info (which I

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  • Don said:
  • April 17th, 2011

This just just became my #1 app for Twitter and replaced a long time adherence to the Twitter for iPhone app. I’ve tried Twitter clients, liked some a lot but kept returning to the main Twitter for iPhone out of ease and simplicity. But always was looking for something more. YOU GUYS ARE IT! I can already see how this feels different than any other Twitter app I’ve used. And has everything I need. (love the view retweets and lists options) Hope you decide to do an iPad version as well! Thanks!

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  • Edgar said:
  • April 17th, 2011

Best twitter-app when u add these features:

- Universal iPad/iPhone app
- Landscape
- Ability to see how many tweets you have.

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Awesome. I pretty much buy any of your apps based on design alone, but this already feels super useful.

Noticed:

Would be nice if adding to lists happened in the background (like posting tweets does) because going through several people and adding them to lists gets really tedious waiting for the data to transfer.

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After using many Twitter clients on iPhone, I am using Tweetbot for a couple of days and I have to admit that it’s the best I ever used. It’s powerful, polished and fun !

I am now waiting for a MacOS X version because I would like to use it on my Mac too. The key function would be the ability to open several accounts in distinct windows ;-)

Francois

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  • Fernando dos Santos said:
  • April 18th, 2011

Please show some love to third-party browsers, like iCab and Atomic. Please in-line text selection, not just copy the whole tweet.

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tweetbot is the truly awesome app for my iPhone4 twitter client. Other than that,not interested. Gud job dude!

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  • Seiji said:
  • April 19th, 2011

Loved Tweetbot, push notifications it’s the only feature I really miss here. But it’s really amazing that I can buy an app with such high quality for just $2, including future fixes and updates. I would pay for push notifications, but I guess some people may want more features included.

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  • Louis said:
  • May 3rd, 2011

Having the same problem as @JT. After upgrading to 4.3.2 I can no longer login on Tweetbot. I have double checked my password on other tweet clients and there is no problem

Extremely frustrating after paying for a service to find it not working.

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It should be nice if after tapping a link inside a tweet we can have an option to go directly through this link, not just Open in Safari.
Thanks in any case, nice app