Comments on: Nambu Solves Twitter Clutter

By: appleblog roundup

appleblog roundup — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:14:17 +0000

[...] Nambu Review: A quick review of the native OS X twitter client Nambu. I like Nambu a lot and it’s got a lot of power built into it. If they ever manage to include FriendFeed support I’d be sold but at the moment I have to admit I’m stuck on Tweetie. [...]

By: bob

bob — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:49:16 +0000

Nambu’s been my favorite so far (modest usage), but frustrated by immaturity (not mine, nambu’s). In any case, trying tweetie for a bit.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:59:51 +0000

Nambu was my client of choice before switching to Tweetie.

I do still like Nambu, but prefer the clean, minimal look of Tweetie. If you learn the keyboard shortcuts as well, it’s even more of a joy to use. So intuitive.

So for me, Tweetie (Mac) + Tweetie (iPhone) + ‘Post with Tweetie’ bookmarklet is the perfect solution.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:45:52 +0000

You can emulate groups in Tweetie by creating and saving a search such as:

from:user1 OR from:user2

By: Bryan Schuetz

Bryan Schuetz — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:37:45 +0000

I agree with everyones comments about Tweetie, as far as fit and finish of design goes I think it’s ahead of the pack when it comes to twitter clients. To be fair to the Nambu folks though their product is still in Beta so hopefully they will tighten those nuts bolts before release.

My big hope for Nambu is really the FriendFeed integration as Twitter and FF are really my two favorite networks.

@Joey I’ll try to do a better job of including requirements on future posts.

By: James Dempsey

James Dempsey — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:37:25 +0000

You should definitely ask the folks over at TUAW to do that then. If you want to see them here at THE APPLE BLOG, you could post a suggestion in the forums ;)

By: Joey Sichol

Joey Sichol — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:32:37 +0000

I really wish TUAW would have a tag showing minimum requirements for the these apps, i.e. this is 10.5.

By: Hieronymus

Hieronymus — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:13:03 +0000

While I like Nambu a lot, I had to stop using it and go back to TweetDeck. In Nambu link detection completely fails in my grouped columns. Links are live in the ‘friends’ direct feed – but when sorted into columned groups are no longer live, rendering the whole thing useless (especially since cut’n'paste doesn’t really work either). Yes, I mentioned it on their forums.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:04:51 +0000

Am back to tweetie as well, nambu doesnt get it really

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:53:13 +0000

There’s an Adobe AIR application called Skimmer that lets you view updates from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr. It works pretty well.

By: idaho beef

idaho beef — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:47:54 +0000

nambu is better in theory, but doesn’t cut it in reality.

By: ncus

ncus — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:41:13 +0000

I have tried Nambu, and back to tweetie. Nambu is super unstable. I got beach ball of death all the time. They need to fix the stability before adding more features.

By: Champs

Champs — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:52:09 +0000

I lied. Adium is more anemic than I thought, or at least I can’t figure out how to reply or ReTweet…

By: James Dempsey

James Dempsey — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:59:58 +0000

TweetDeck is an utter disaster of an application. I hate it. Nambu looks much nicer, offering much the same functionality, but I feel like it still fails as a beautiful and fun app to use. Tweetie is clearly the best looking app on the Mac. That being said, it doesn't offer Groups - a near deal-breaker for most Twitter users following a lot of Tweeple. You might also consider looking into EventBox by The Cosmic Machine. It offers Facebook, Twitter, Digg, RSS, GoogleReader, Flickr, Reddit, Identi.ca, and InstaPaper integration. The Twitter module has Groups in the form of SmartFolders. It offers a single column interface like Twitteriffic, and a two column one with folders on the left similar to Nambu.

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By: Champs

Champs — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:34:28 +0000

Nambu seemed stable enough and quite good when I used it, but If you only care about your own, basic use, and don’t think Twitter is The Single Most Important Thing in the World ™, the Adium 1.4 beta is just fine.