Twitter app because I’ve explored it a bit in the past and it just But I knew I wouldn’t permanently switch to the Times a week to view the Notifications tab, which provides much more Twitter app for this experiment was that I do actually use it a few The main reason I didn’t choose the official If there was anything that really precipitated thisĮxperiment, it was the shameful fact that I had not used Twitterifficįor many, many years. Mention, simply because I don’t use them. Just because I preferred one to the other,ĭoesn’t mean they’re bad apps – in fact all six of them are great.įinally, there are some big features of each app that I will not Liked and disliked about each of these apps, as compared to my use of Note: Just a heads up, this is not a review of Twitteriffic, Unread, and Pocket Casts. More frequently, even if I’m really happy with the app I’m currently Suffice to say I have resolved to try new apps (whatever their purpose) Really liked, but had no idea I liked, until they were missing in theĪpp I switched to (and vice versa). Perhaps the most obvious one was that I discovered certain features I So for three weeks I’ve been solely using those apps,Īnd this “experiment” has lead to a few interesting revelations to me. When it came to Twitter, RSS, and podcast apps – at all. New apps (and occasionally reviewed them), I didn’t do the same thing I had come to the awkward realisation that although I frequently tried Three weeks ago I got rid of all three, and replaced them with Twitteriffic, Unread, and Pocket Casts. My iPhone Home screen dedicated to apps for Twitter, RSS, and podcasts.įor as long as I can remember, they have been taken up by Tweetbot, Reeder and Castro. Tweetbot 4.4 is available on the App Store.For at least five years there have been three slots on
I’ve been happily using Tweetbot as my only Twitter client since version 4.0 launched – it’s still the best option by far on the iPad Pro, and it keeps getting better on each release. Between CloudKit sync, topics, and now filters, there’s even more of a contrast between the simplistic approach of Twitter’s app and Tapbots’ powerful take. Once again, Tapbots is differentiating Tweetbot from the official Twitter app in ways that make sense for power users. I’d like to see a way to add multiple-word keywords, such as quoting them or separating them by commas.
TWEETBOT MUTE WORDS FULL
Last, all keywords in filters are joined by an OR operator behind the scenes – there’s no way to filter by “iOS 10” as a full string instead of the words iOS or 10. I also would have liked to see the filter icon to be placed in the top title bar, not in the search bar with the current design, you can only activate a filter by scrolling all the way to the top first, whereas I’d like to filter my timeline as I’m catching up with it (say, after an Apple event). Considering Tweetbot’s excellent iCloud sync, this strikes me as an omission that will be rectified soon. For one, they don’t sync – you’ll have to recreate each filter from scratch on your other devices. I have some complaints about this first version of filters. I can see how filters will become a popular choice to quickly refine which tweets are shown in a timeline thanks to their easy controls. While that was possible with searches before, using filters is more intuitive and it only takes one tap to activate them and change the tweets displayed in Tweetbot. When I was in San Francisco for WWDC, I used filters extensively to filter my timeline and mentions to specific types of content that let me see what people were saying about iOS 10. Furthermore, unlike muting a keyword or a user, filters allow you to exclude or include a keyword or tweet type, so you can hide tweets that match a certain keyword or type or only view those tweets, excluding everything else. Unlike mute filters (which, once activated, are applied to the entire app), timeline filters are easier to put together thanks to a creation UI and they can be enabled for individual sections of the app.
Tweetbot’s new timeline filters can dynamically filter tweets based on keywords and the following tweet types:
After spending a week with filters, though, I can see the value they bring to the app, particularly if you use searches and profile timelines a lot, or if you’ve been looking for ways to quickly exclude or catch up on a topic in your timeline. I didn’t fully grasp the benefit of filters at first – they looked like another way to enable mute filters in any Tweetbot view.
TWEETBOT MUTE WORDS UPDATE
With an update launching today on the App Store, Tweetbot is adding the ability to filter timelines – any timeline within the app – by specific types of content.
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