Tweetbot 4 is Here, and it is Glorious
If you have a Twitter account and use it regularly, stop reading this article. Go to the App Store, spend the $4.99, and download Tweetbot 4. Don’t ask questions, don’t comparison shop, don’t grumble that it’s a paid update. Today’s Tweetbot 4 release is possibly the single greatest thing to ever happen to Twitter.
I’m serious. Tweetbot has long been one of my favorite apps, and its lack of an iPad version was simply criminal – I’ve been using the iPhone version of Tweetbot 3 in 2X mode for the past 2 years. If this new release was just an iPad optimized layout, it would be a bargain at twice the price.
Thankfully, it’s so, so much more. Just like Twitter’s official app, Tweetbot now has a consolidated view of all recent activity. You can see who favorited you, who retweeted you, replies, quotes, all that fun stuff. In the iPad layout, all of this information is docked to the right side of the screen, so you can keep track of what’s going on while you’re browsing your stream.
Speaking of things docked to the right of the screen, Tweetbot 4 fully supports the new iPad multitasking. Swipe in from the right, and add the equivalent of the iPhone version of Tweetbot to your Safari window!
The new Stats View pulls in an overview of recent favorites, followers and more. It works just like Twitter has been rolling out in their official app, but with a much nicer interface and live updating.
The $4.99 price tag is high for an iPhone app, but objectively low in the grand scheme of things. Your money gets you a premium app, brilliantly designed, and free of all ads and promoted tweets that Twitter insists on inserting into their stream.
Honestly, I could go on and on listing new features and gushing about implementations of old ones. But please, please take my word on this one. If you’re a regular Twitter user, this is an essential app. Tapbots outdid themselves on this one. If Twitter blocked off access to clients like Tweetbot 4, I would probably quit Twitter.