What Tweetie 2 lost
Everyone’s talking about how great the new version of the popular Twitter-Client Tweetie is. And I agree with John Gruber when he says “the bar has been raised“. But there are obviously some major shortcomings in Tweetie 2 and I don’t understand why they weren’t straightened out.
1. No Themes.
I loved Tweetie 1’s dark theme because it made the whole app look more of a piece. Now we have only the white theme which combines a light background for every screen you are in with dark menu bars on top and bottom. Tweetie: I find your lack of dark theme disturbing.
This is really a nice idea. Geotags are generated in the very moment you choose to include them in you Tweet. Problem is: you get rather long Google-URLs that leave little space for what you want to say. So you have to shorten the link manually. Tweetie 1 did this automatically, so what was done in 1 go back then now has to be done in 2 steps. Unnecessary.
3. Double-Tap-to-mark-as-read
In Direct Message view, you can double-tap the icon in the bottom menubar and select “mark all as read”. Fantastic if you get many DMs or if you already read most of them from another Twitter Client on your Mac. But why doesn’t this work with mentions (which I get disproportionally more of) and your timeline ? I simply don’t get it.
Well, these are my strongest points of criticism. Atebits: Straighten it out, add Push Notifications, and you get 5 stars! Because apart from the aforementioned, Tweetie 2 is really the best Twitter App in the App Store. And another bar has been raised: Tweetie 2 has the most beautiful App-Icon I have ever seen.
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