Download TweetBot apk 1.0 for Android. Tweetbots helps you generate and post Tweets! Tweetbot 6 is the latest update for one of the most prized Twitter apps out there, now with support for new APIs and a subscription-based pricing model.
The popular third-party Twitter client Tweetbot has received a notable update today with a handful of new features and a change in its business model. Tapbots says that Tweetbot 6 is free to download, with an in-app subscription available to unlock the core functionality of the app. The promise is that subscription pricing will ensure regular updates in the future.
The folks at MacStories were first to cover the release of Tweetbot 6 this afternoon. The release is an entirely new application, so if you had previously purchased Tweetbot, you’ll need to re-download the app from the App Store and sign up for the in-app subscription.
The subscription pricing is reasonable at $0.99 per month or $5.99 annually, and the subscription is required to access core functionality, including the ability actually send tweets. Without the in-app subscription, Tweetbot is essentially a read-only Twitter client.
Other than the switch to subscription pricing, Tweetbot 6 includes a handful of new features. There are some interface tweaks to the timeline, as well as support for the latest version of the Twitter API. The new Twitter API includes support for polls as well as cards.
Other changes and improvements in Tweetbot 6 include three new app icons, new light and dark themes from which to choose, dark mode enhancements, and Chrome and Firefox support for opening URLs. As MacStories notes, the update also drops support using other services for URL shortening, image uploads, and video.
As is the case when any app makes the jump to subscriptions, the promise is that the stability of the regular income provided by a subscription can help support long-term development. It’s up to the folks at Tapbots to prove this worth, so only time will tell. Ideally, Twitter will also continue to make improvements to its API in the meantime.
Tweetbot 6 is available on the App Store as a free download, but again, the in-app subscription is required to access core functionality of the social network. There is a one-week free trial. As of right now, that subscription does not extend to the Mac version of the app.
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Our Verdict
To say I use Twitter begrudgingly isn’t quite right. When I first joined the microblogging service in February 2007, I wasn’t impressed and didn’t stick around. I came back to the service in earnest a couple years later, and it’s become a daily go-to place for me. I use it professionally and personally, and so do many of the folks I follow. It’s full of quips and silliness, but also great information and insight. So it’s fair to say that I’ve come to love Twitter, the service.
But I feel far less warmly towards Twitter, the company, which has started making life much more difficult for the third-party developers whose apps work with the service. That’s a shame, because I’ve repeatedly been impressed by the innovation and design that characterize the best Twitter clients, and the company’s actions put the development of such apps in jeopardy.
Of course, this is a review of the excellent new Tweetbot for Mac (Mac App Store link), not a review of Twitter’s business practices. But I bring up the latter here because one of the effects of Twitter’s new developer restrictions—specifically, the finite limit on how many users a given Twitter client can support—is that developer Tapbots is charging more for the new app than originally planned. Specifically, Tweetbot for Mac will cost you $20, at a time when many similar apps can be found for $10 or less. Which means that for many readers, the question isn’t just whether Tweetbot is good, but whether it’s worth the price.
My answer: Yes.
The key question, of course, is how well Tweetbot’s iOS-inspired actions and interface map to the Mac. The app mostly makes that leap in smart ways. A good example is that the tap-and-hold action in iOS becomes right-click (or Control+click) on the Mac: Right-click on a user’s name or avatar to get options to mute, follow/unfollow, send a private message, manage list membership, or report for spam. Right-click on a tweet to copy a link to it, copy its text, email it, translate it, view it in Favstar, and more. Right-click on a link within a tweet to compose a post about the link, send it to the read-later service of your choice, open it in your default browser, and so on.
Tweetbot’s iOS gestures also make the leap to the Mac. Sure, you can double-click a tweet (or press the right-arrow key when the tweet is selected) to view the conversation surrounding that message, but if you’re using a trackpad, you can instead use a two-finger swipe to the right, directly over the tweet, to access the same view. It feels just right.
As on the iPad, Tweetbot on the Mac uses a left-hand navigation bar to offer quick access to your mentions, direct messages, favorites, search, profile, lists, retweets, and mute settings. Similarly, if you have multiple accounts configured, a tap on your current account’s avatar shows you a list of all accounts; tap one to switch to it.
You can configure all sorts of settings, including which events you’d like notifications for (complete with Notification Center integration), which read-it-later service to use, your link shortener of choice, your preferred photo- and video-upload services, and—perhaps best of all—your preferred timeline-syncing service. I’ve long relied on the excellent Tweet Marker service to keep my place between Twitter apps and devices, and Tweetbot supports Tweet Marker. But now that I’m using Tweetbot on all my devices, I’m using—and enjoying—its iCloud integration instead, mainly because its iCloud syncing tracks not just my current reading position in the main timeline, but also the read/unread status of my direct messages, where I left off in my mentions timeline, and even my mute settings. It’s great.
When composing a message, you can click your own avatar to choose to send the message from another of your Twitter accounts instead. Other composing niceties include the capability to attach images, to add your location, and to save unfinished posts as drafts.
There are a few ways in which Tweetbot for Mac differs from the iOS versions, and those just so happen to be the few areas where I feel the Mac version suffers: multiple windows and multiple-account management.
Obviously, multiple windows isn’t a feature the iOS versions need to contend with—or could even support—but on the Mac, Tweetbot lets you create columns, which are separate timelines attached to your main timeline window, or standalone windows containing separate timelines. The implementation of this approach is a bit clunky: For example, if I want a separate window with replies to @Macworld, I need to first navigate from my own account to @Macworld’s, then click the mentions button, and then click the gear icon and choose the command to spawn a new window. But now I have two windows showing the same thing; I then need to switch the original window back to my own account. (Alternatively, I can navigate to the Macworld account and then right-click the mentions button and choose Open In New Window. This at least keeps the original window on the main Macworld timeline.)
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Having to manually switch the original window back to where it was is a bit of a hassle, but the big issue for me here is that the newly created column or window lacks navigation elements—you can’t switch to mentions or direct messages or anything else. To change the view in the secondary window or column, I need to close it and then recreate it with the desired view. This might make sense if you’re viewing two timelines for the same account, but for viewing timelines from multiple accounts, I’d rather be able to view two side-by-side standard windows, each with its own navigation controls. Tweetbot can’t quite do that yet.
There’s also more work to be done when it comes to keyboard shortcuts. Tweetbot has many, but it lacks a few necessities. For example, I’d love a quicker way to switch between accounts, especially given the limitation I just outlined with multiple windows and columns. A global keyboard shortcut to launch the app, or to toggle its visibility, would be nice, too. (Some of my Macworld colleagues also wish the app could run without a Dock icon, but—though I find the freakish robot/duck mildly disturbing—I like it there.)
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I’m thrilled that Tweetbot has made the leap to the Mac; despite a couple complaints, I think it’s just a terrific app. All of my Twitter consumption now goes through Tweetbot clients, and that suits me just fine. Tweetbot is the Twitter app I’ve long wanted on my Mac, and it doesn’t disappoint.