I bought Tweebot and used it for a week. Then I switched back to official twitter app. Here is why.
Tweetbot does have some “personalized” features. It has a dark theme and fancy sound effects, but I don’t really care about these stuff. It has left/right slide gesture, but I found them not intuitive and hard to memorize. The double/triple click is not always detected, so sometimes I have to click lots of times of a tweet and feel myself silly. The customizable tab looks useful, but not for me. What I want is to use a list as a tab, like what I do with Echofon for Mac. But Tweetbot doesn’t support that.
Besides these specious features, Tweetbot has some shortcomings compared to official app. “Discover” is an important part in official app. I check it at times and find it interesting. Another crucial advantage of official app is speed! When view conversations or tweet detail, official app is obviously faster than Tweetbot.
Tweetbot does have a few delicate features that worth noting, such as the “unread counter”, and “select the last photo from library”. However after all, official app is a much better choice for now.
—–After a year——
Using Tweetbot on iPhone and iPad. Maybe just tired of the look and feel of the official app.