Jeff Rock

60 Second Review: Twitterrific for Mac

Composer. Great layout and clear UI. Love the fact that the composer isn’t separate from the main window.
Unified timeline. You don’t have to dig through tabs see inline messages or replies but you can still see them grouped if you want to in the sidebar. Tweets are color coded to keep things clear.
Multiple account windows. Comes in handy when you need to see everything at once.
Non-auto-shrunken URLs. No forced t.co here. You can still use URLs without having them auto-molested.
Cloudapp support. The ability to maintain control over and keep a record of the photos I upload and the URLs I shrink? Yes, please.
Collapsible toolbar and sidebar. When you just want the timeline it’s only a few clicks away.

You can’t disable the tray icon or dock icon. Seriously, we don’t need both. Why can’t I turn one off?
No drag and drop photos. The dock icon, the composer area, the tray icon, I’ll take anything.
Scrolling doesn’t kill the tweet count. If the window isn’t the one in focus scrolling to the top of the timeline doesn’t zero out the dock count or bright blue highlight on the tray icon.
Opaque functions. For whatever reason you have to click and hold on a link to get the Instapaper option. That’s terrible, non-obvious UI/UX. Why not put it under the ‘more’ gear? There’s already eight options there anyway.

Realtime updates. Polling for updates is so 2010.
Position sync between clients. I know this falls outside the borders of the Mac review but Twitteriffic is everywhere. It’s one of only a few Twitter apps on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Don’t fear the web service, Cocoa nerds!

Popovers and push/pop navigation. You got some of your iOS in my OS X. What’s the obsession with forcing touch paradigms on the Mac?
Dark theme. Sometimes you just have to let go.
Retweet options under the reply icon. I know it cleans up the UI but one of these things is not like the others. Making an app usable shouldn’t come second.