Comments on: Twitter for Mac Review: The Bird Is Back

By: Scott Brown

Scott Brown — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:06:57 +0000

Nope this doesn’t happen for me. It says it is to long and wants to the Twitlong service.

By: Michel Sagen

Michel Sagen — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:11:58 +0000

Good review, thanks!

The automatic URL shortener drives me absolutely nuts. For some tweets it is vital that the URL remains intact, and when the shortened URL is actually longer than the original, it is just too stupid.

Real-world example – this is what I wrote into the input field:
“Excellent first impressions of http://viber.com (iphone calling service)”

This is what it looked like after the URL shortening magic:
“Excellent first impressions of http://t.co/eBcBuNI (iphone calling service)”

Come on, Twitter, you can do better than this..!

By: Chris Brandrick

Chris Brandrick — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 22:06:19 +0000

Thanks for that! Glad it’s still there.

By: Dave2

Dave2 — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:02:57 +0000

The thing I liked most about Tweetie was the ability to write block filters directly to the defaults file. This allowed me to block out all the Foursquare checkins, Miso “what I’m watching” tweets, Twitterspam contests, and the numerous hashtags for topics I don’t care to see. From what I can tell, this has now been eliminated from “Twitter” (Tweetie 2?), making it useless to me.

With all the senseless noise being directed at Twitter, you’d think developers would make it easy for users to filter out stuff they don’t want to see. I am hopeful that Twitter will have this feature added back eventually. Until then, I’m sticking with Tweetie.

By: Jacob Wyke

Jacob Wyke — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 07:42:19 +0000

I’m having the same issue with the links not working with Synergy, and everytime I start it up growl shows every @message I’ve ever received.

Switching back to Tweetie.

By: Landon Baine

Landon Baine — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:05:35 +0000

Froze on me a couple times. Back to Echofon.

By: scott

scott — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:49:41 +0000

You can still tell if someone is following you or not. You need to go to their profile, and then hover over the follow/unfollow button. You’ll see a tool tip indicating if they are following you or not.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:25:11 +0000

Apple doesn’t even follow their own HIG. For example just look at how the close, minimize, and plus buttons are laid out in the latest version of iTunes or basically the entire GarageBand interface. Add that to the fact that the HIG is due for a major rewrite anyway.

I’m actually impressed at some of the risks they took with the app and think it’s a great improvement both aesthetically and performance-wise from the last version and certainly head-and-shoulders above competing apps.

By: Chris Brandrick

Chris Brandrick — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:01:33 +0000

Yup, just paste in a URL, no matter how long, and be sure to keep your eye on the character count. The new app does it all for you.

By: Loris

Loris — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:27:18 +0000

“Despite a few questionable changes, including the removal of the option to see if a user is following you or not”

FYI, it’s still here but hidden, you just have to hover your mouse over the Follow/Unfollow button and a tooltip will tell you.