I have all of tapbots apps, and find them amazing. This appears to be no different. I don't tweet much, but you can be sure I will use tweetbot from now on. Awesome. Best of all, no #dickbar.
Also, this has one of the best demo videos and presentation I have seen.
They made Touiteur (Twitter client for Android) change theirs to Plume for Twitter, which sucks. Not the new name (well, it does a bit), but the fact that they made them change a great name. Grrr.
The differences are there; superficially, all clients display tweets in a timeline, and provide the functionality that Twitter.com does. The differences abound, though. Check out http://shawnblanc.net/2011/04/tweetbot-review/ for more.
I see some minor differences, but I don't think they're good ones. It's not just the timeline, the search screen is almost identical, etc, etc. I don't think there's enough here for non-echo chamber users.
I don't know what the name of the Tapbots style is, but it's a little heavy for my tastes.
On the plus side, it definitely has more personality than the official client (which has lost personality over time -- though the iPad app is pure genius), but the UI/UX is over done, IMHO.
There's certainly some nice features, and it's a nice UI. But I much prefer Twitter clients that show more tweets on the screen at once. The large location and retweet-info bars mean I see about 30% fewer tweets in some parts of my timeline compared to other apps, even with the small font size set. Anyone find this is an immediate turn-off for a twitter app?
Beautiful UI. My first Tapbots app. Very impressed. I wish it had native push notifications and landscape support though =/ Will be using it as my primary client for a bit though, to see how it goes.
Love this. First Twitter app I've got no complaints about. Hopefully will get push notifications at some point, then I can ditch the official app entirely.
According to Twitter, it's not possible to innovate on clients any more; glad to see a company willing to prove otherwise. This is why I'm always against a platform company saying "don't build x" whether it's Twitter saying don't build clients or Apple saying don't build web browsers.
TweetBot's also been in development for a long, long time. They had to put it on hold the first time, when Twitter bought Tweetie and put it out for free.
It looks nicer than most of the Twitter apps out there, but I don't think I'm leaving Echofon yet. I love the desktop/iPhone/iPad sync, built-in push notifications and muting capabilities.
(I know there's Boxcar, but I've seen friends have trouble unsubscribing from Boxcar effectively, that's a bit worrisome to me however fringe case it may be.)
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I love the Tapbots aesthetic... it reminds me very much of Dyson products.
They basically took the official client and reskinned it.
I'm not a fan of the Tapbots style, so maybe it's not aimed at me, but I much prefer the cleaner official client.
I don't know what the name of the Tapbots style is, but it's a little heavy for my tastes.
On the plus side, it definitely has more personality than the official client (which has lost personality over time -- though the iPad app is pure genius), but the UI/UX is over done, IMHO.
Each to their own. :)
However, I've found myself swiping for conversations only to find there were none.
It's especially true of high volume tweeters like @acarvin because it splits the conversation up.
Possible Solution?: If it could pre-load ahead and save me the multiple instances of finding nothing.
Time to wait for it to appear on the App Store.
http://tapbots.com/support/tweetbot/
(I know there's Boxcar, but I've seen friends have trouble unsubscribing from Boxcar effectively, that's a bit worrisome to me however fringe case it may be.)