So tweetbot is dead then?

Why can't twitter make a decent app on it's own? This shouldn't be complicated...

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They don't want to make a decent app. They've bought great apps and shuttered them. They want you to use the web client.

> They want you to use the web client.

I use the web app version exclusively -- based on that I don't agree.

Both the Twitter and Facebook Android/iOS web applications constantly push you to download the native client. They even get demanding sometimes. They want to be able to send you push notifications.

They're not dead, they just can't offer push notifications, or automatically update your timeline when there's a new tweet. Nothing else in Tweetbot will have to change.

So that kills a lot of the point of the app?

It doesn't. There's no replacement for push notifications besides using the official app, but you can still manually refresh the timeline (via pull-to-refresh).

I don’t think so. Even with those limitations I’ll be way happier using it than the official one or a web page.

I mean, if they had a decent app I wouldn’t worry, but why they offer can’t be compared to Tweetbot and others.

What don't you like about the official apps? The iPhone one is good and performant.

I switched away from the official app to get away from the "algos" that keep surfacing content that's either old or I'm not following. No I didn't miss those tweets, and I don't care what someone else liked.

Stop turning Twitter into Facebook! I'm sure it increases your engagement metrics, but at some point I'll feel overengaged, realize how much time I'm wasting and quit the app completely.

Same here. Algos surfacing stuff I don't care about at all (and can't turn off!), and I've run across enough instances of the official app/page not showing me some tweets (checked exhaustively for a couple days of tweets around the ones it missed, couldn't find) that I've utterly dropped the official clients.

Talon supports the use-case I care about: reading all the tweets from people I follow because I care about them. Twitter and Facebook both make this nearly impossible, so I don't use them directly.