AppFlow

A few days ago Luke did his review of TweetDeck.  Tweetie is similar to TweetDeck in many a way, but is specifically for mac, although an iPhone version is now available.  If I’m honest, the reason for this review of this application being completed so close to when Luke carried out the review of his favourite Twitter client is that we have a little friendly rivalry going on.  He think TweetDeck is best, and I think Tweeteie is best.  What do you think?

By default Tweetie is ad-supported with the free download option, but for a small fee you can buy a licence to get rid of these, but as shown in the screen shot they are not overly destructive, and if I am honest they are few and far between.

Ease of use

That, is the first phrase that pop’s into mind when I think of Tweetie.  It really is easy to use.  Personally, I find other Twitter clients to be crowded and over complicated.  Tweetie on the other hand is really simple to use. On the left-hand panel you have all of your account, and under the selected account you have a list of view panes, i.e. Tweets, Reply’s, Direct Messages, and Searches.

You then get his series of four dots under each account icon.  These tell you which categories under each account have new Tweets waiting for you.  The first dots referring to your steam that you follow, the second to reply’s, the third to Direct Messages and the forth and final to Search result updates.

This is just a small amount of what you can accomplish with Tweetie.  For example you can dive into in-depth information about individual user’s, such as there followers and replies.  By simply click there icon you can find out whatever you need to know about them, without ever leaving Tweetie.

On top of this Tweetie also has a feature called conversations.  As you can see blow, by simply clicking on a Tweet in a conversation I have managed to strip all of the other tweets out of my feed.  Now all you can see is the conversation between myself and Luke.

What I don’t like

There are a few things I don’t like about Tweetie.  For example, whenever I launch it it tells me that I have 20 new Direct Messages, even though I don’t.  And 14 new reply’s.  Nope, I’m pretty sure I read these last night.

Also, I find the lack of services like @spam irritating.  In TweetDeck you can quickly report a user as a spammer in the click of a button.  This ability is lacking in Tweetie, maybe it will be here in 2.0?  Hopefully.

Other than than I don’t really have any complaint.  I just hope the guys over a AteBits keep up the good work!