
I never expected to see Tweetbot on the App Store charts again, nor would I have considered that Echophon, TweetCaster or Twitterrific would have been left available. From a business perspective, it makes sense: only “six million App Store and Google Play users installed the top five third-party Twitter clients between January 2014 and July 2018,” according to TechCrunch. And when I say “its own,” I’m also referring to our dearest TweetDeck, which they in fact absorbed. has made clear this year that it intends to prioritize its own clients over maintaining the APIs necessary for others to receive push notifications. You should know by now whether or not Tweetbot 5 is worth it to you in purely functional terms, but I think we should all acknowledge that this release of Tweetbot is likely the last competitive third-party Twitter app for iOS. If you’ve made it this far, you’ve already seen the demos and skimmed reviews at least. It’s the same phenomena Chuck Klosterman explores best in the context of DVRing live sports to watch later. It wouldn’t be the end of the world if they came a few hundred seconds late - it’s that they’re never predictably or consistently so, which severs entirely the human perception of engaged plugged-in-ness, if you will. Tweetbot solved a lot of things, it really is daft when it comes to notifications. I must point out, though, that the bloggers and YouTubers who’ve insisted that Tweetbot or Twitterrific or any other premium app could replace the native Twitter app entirely on iPhone even before they were stripped of a most live/push functionality (which I’ll come back around to in just a moment,) are undoubtedly lying to themselves - as good as they got, they never overtook Twitter’s own app in immediacy terms, which is almost inevitably going to present fundamental deterrence on the part of the active Twitter user who intends to rid themselves of the default pedestrian avenue of administration. It was fast, yet always noticeably smoother than the native app, just as the newest release is today. If you trust Mark Watson with your life as I do, you’d better believe that Tweetbot has been “ a screamer ” since its very beginning, when it pioneered the Premium Poweruser segment, for which a demographic apparently still exists. Namely, they moved the one fucking button that’s given the app a usability premium over its mobile web-based low-rent clone.
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That said, I’m going to keep this as brief and unrevisionist as I can: Tweetbot’s latest iteration may actually justify the dedicated subreddit I’ve just discovered! (Reddit’s the last place anyone wants to talk about apps, I guess.) I’ve complained at length about Twitter’s increasingly hostile (but justified, sortof ) treatment of its once astonishingly diverse landscape of third-party clients and tools, yet I’d honestly grown significantly in accepting that the dynamic would never again see the power of the world’s most cash-stuffed companies delivered into the sweaty hands of small, kooky one and two-man teams, and it never would’ve occurred to me that Tweetbot was still around - much less getting ready to update its trusty old app with a release that would suddenly make it clearly more stable and better-looking than its last competitor: the Native Fuck, itself, which has also undergone significant cosmetic surgery, recently.
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Tweetbot 5 is Now Available With a New Dark Theme for OLED Displays, New App Icon, and More Posted by Evan Selleck on For fans of the third-party Twitter client Tweetbot, the developer behind the app has just issued a software update that adds quite a bit of new to the mix. Tweetbot 5 for iOS adds some nice modern features, including a dark theme that looks great on OLED screens. Why Does My iPhone Battery Die So Fast? An Apple Tech's 14 iPhone Battery Drain Fixes! - Duration: 15:00. Perhaps most notable among the new features is a brand new icon that looks more modern than the old one.

The release also changes the name of the app from Tweetbot 4 to Tweetbot 5. Popular third-party Twitter client Tweetbot has received a major update that brings a number of new features to the application.

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If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked 48 alternatives to Tweetbot and 16 are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement.

The most popular Windows alternative is Janetter, which is free. Tweetbot is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality.
