#Tweetbot 3 update

The company had missed to update the app for the iOS 7 software that was released last month. It's harder than you think.Tapbots, the creators of the popular Tweetbot app has finally released a new version of the Tweetbot as iOS 7 update. Non-Schengen compliant border control at Buchs SG station, 1 July 2015, 0700 - 2015.

The unbearable lightness of Michael Gove - 2016.Tories breaking the law on how they replace MEPs leaving the European Parliament? - 2017.I'm running for the European Parliament - 2018.A day trip to the last outpost of the Soviet Union - Tiraspol in Transnistria - 2019.If Labour were to have a position on Brexit in the UK right now, what should it be? - 2020.Tweetbot 6 review: hello old friend, we might meet again, but not just yet - 2021.Work to overcome them and I will, once more, be your biggest supporters!ġ5 years blogging. Some of the functions are brilliant, but there are a slew of pretty major shortcomings – although probably none of them are insurmountable. So I am sorry, Tapbots, but Tweetbot 6 does not hit the mark – or at least not yet. There is only a function called Topics that’s buried deep in the app, and makes no sense for making threads. This is a quote tweet, with an image in the quoted tweet:Īlso what does and does not work with regard to images in posts is really weird in Tweetbot 6:Īnd the biggest shortcoming of all: no proper Twitter threads option! Yes, you read that right. I instead only get quote tweets that also mention me:Īlso how Tweets with images display is really weird in Tweetbot 6 I am not too bothered by Likes and Retweets, but seeing if someone has Quote Tweeted a tweet of mine is really important, and I cannot find a way to get these to display along with my mentionsīut even if I create custom filters, I cannot get Quote tweets that do not mention me to showįor example I would need a tweet like this – quote tweeting me – to appear in my Mentions, but I cannot find a way to make that work Maybe it’s just habit, but I would prefer this to be shown above a tweet.

Somewhat strangely who retweeted a tweet is shown below the tweet. There is a further problem in Lists – there is no quick way to scroll to the latest tweet in a list, in the same way there is in the regular Timeline, where a double tap on the icon takes you to the top. In the official Twitter app I can scroll sideways to access my lists, whereas in Tweetbot 6 I need to tap around a lot to get to them. Tweetbot in the past used to excel with its management of lists. Searching is still a joy in Tweetbot – very good There is a function where you can add a private note on each of your followers – handy!Ĭomposing single tweets and replies is nice, and a proper character count is better than Twitter’s strange circle thingy This is so handy to find those things I recall discussing, but were a little way down my timeline. The “Mentions” screen (note: rather than Notifications in the regular Twitter app!) has a search field. Highlighting hashtags in a different colour is actually really sensible. And the ugly Twitter stories bar from the official app is not shown.

There is no advertising anywhere in sight. It looks really nice, and the app is fast and snappy. This review was conducted on 22 June 2021, using Tweetbot 6.1.2 on an iPhone 6s running iOS 14.6 The crux of it: Tweetbot 6 puts some of the problems of previous versions right, but not enough of them to mean it’s ripe for switching from Twitter’s own iOS app just yet. Were the app to be my main Twitter app again I would be happy to pay it… There is a new subscription model too – either €0.99 a month, or €6.49 a year. I was not the only one – old nerd friend of mine Simon Wheatley was happy to see Tweetbot back as well – and this blog post is as a result of both of us running our critical eye over it. But back in 2018 Twitter’s API changes restricted what Tweetbot could do, rendering it inappropriate for my purposes.īut yesterday I was alerted to the new version of the app – Tweetbot 6 for iOS – that uses Twitter’s new API and was supposed to overcome the shortcomings dating back to 2018. Using an independent app made sense as I could configure how everything would display according to my needs, rather than Twitter chose that for the sake of its advertisers. As a very heavy Twitter user, for years I was a fan of Tweetbot on iOS, an independent Twitter app made by Tapbots.

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