A click on media opens it up in our lightning fast new media viewer. Columns persist even when hidden.Īutomatically play videos and GIFs in your timeline with a quick mouseover. Just drag the column circle to the right to add columns and back to the left to hide them. Tweetbot’s new optional expanded sidebar provides one-click access to all of your subsections like lists, direct message conversations, and saved searches.Ĭolumns have been redesigned from the ground up to be faster and easier to use. It also has powerful mute filters, multiple column views, and much more. This full-featured client has fantastic support for multiple accounts and lists. Also, you can follow other people’s Twitter feeds via Nuzzel as well.Īnd Nuzzel also offers a section called ‘News From Friends of Friends’ which for me does a better job than Twitter itself does of giving me interesting news/tweets from people I don’t follow.Tweetbot is an award-winning, native Twitter client for the Mac. I use Twitter via Nuzzel more than I use Twitter or Tweetbot, and it works amazingly nicely once one creates lists. It lets me see which of my friends shared the story, what their tweet was, and if there’s a story I want to read later I can with a single click send it to my preferred read-later service. Not only does this let me target trending news, but in conjunction with (and it’s iOS app) I can quickly see the most commonly shared news stories in each of those curated sections, sorted by # of friends who posted or by time, and also sortable within the last 1/2/4/8/24 hours or even on the last several days. I’ve assiduously curated news, website and personal Twitter accounts and put each one into at least one list (eg Mac, Photo, Eat/Drink, Local, Music, News, Consumer/Deals, Op-Ed, Health, etc). I’d gladly pay them money for an ad-free version, but modern companies are allergic to honest transactions so we do what we can. The algorithmic timeline does what I consider to be a great job surfacing the actually-worthy tweets from my followers, so really all I’m doing is seeing ads or suggested content instead of uninteresting tweets from my followers.ĭespite not being very active, I consider Twitter to be an enjoyable and important platform, and unfortunately ads are how they stay in business…so I don’t mind doing my part to support them.

But that assumes all your followers’ content is worth seeing and all ads are not, and that’s an assumption I’ve unlearned over the years. I think the reason ads seem frustrating is that they’re noise to the signal of your followers’ content. Somehow, it doesn’t bother me very much I suspect we’ve all gotten pretty good at ignoring them. The closest thing to a problem that I have with native Twitter is that I have to see the ads. I’m firmly in the latter camp on both fronts. It’s like with task managers…some people want the tremendous granularity and control of Omnifocus, while others prefer a more streamlined option like Things. The current design is clean and easy to parse. Just because there’s room to stuff more information into an interface, doesn’t mean that’s what I want. Even the much-maligned single column is actually very much a benefit to me. I’m just not one of them, so for me the native app provides a consistent and enjoyable window into the network on iPhone and iPad. That said, I recognize that some folks who are “power users” really benefit from multiple timelines, filtering, and all those good things. If I want to see things chronologically I can (I’m pretty sure that’s still a thing you can toggle) but I honestly haven’t done it since they made the algorithmic timeline an option.

I see good tweets from people I follow, I see new stuff from outside my bubble that makes me think, smile, or wonder (discovery is just way better on the native app), and I can interact with all the various features of the platform as intended. I used to be a timeline completionist and now I can’t imagine spending that much time on Twitter (or any other network). And the reason is that, after my initial resistance when it was released, I found that Twitter’s algorithmic timeline made the network way more satisfying and way less of a time sink to browse.

I know it’s desperately uncool for a tech geek to admit this, but I’ve been using the native app exclusively for I guess nearly two years now and don’t miss third party options at all-having previously been a loyal Tweetbot and Twitterific user.įor me the question has ended up reversed: what do the third-party options offer that I would find appealing? The answer for me, as it turns out, is nothing.

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