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The latest tweets from @aottg2. Feb 08, 2018 While definitely not as clean-looking or simple as the official Twitter app, Tweetbot for iPhone ($2.99) offers a wide array of options, which are relatively easy to manage thanks to an intuitive. Trusted Mac download Tweetbot 3 for Twitter 3.5.2. Virus-free and 100% clean download. Get Tweetbot 3 for Twitter alternative downloads.

A few days ago, Mike Beasley wrote a blog post on how the updated Twitter display guidelines were going to affect Tweetbot. Oddly enough, Tweetbot just released version 2.7.2 to 'meet Twitter's new UI requirements,' yet they changed hardly anything. In fact, only one of the Guidelines Beasley wrote about caused a change that fully met the requirement.

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First opening Tweetbot, this guideline appears to be met. Tweetbot now defaults to the style of showing both the Full name and the @username. However, if you take a peak into Tweetbot's settings, the options to display only the @username or only the full name still exist. I reset mine back to full name only.

Unfortunately, this is the one guideline which required a change that Tweetbot was forced to meet. Now there is no way to easily discern your own tweets in your timeline from the tweets of those you follow, which I find quite annoying, and I don't really see what purpose Twitter saw for this guideline.

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This option was not removed, so if you are someone who chooses to use this style for displaying dates on your timeline, you can continue to do so. However, pairing the new default style of displaying both full names and @usernames with the style of displaying dates long form creates a nasty look where the dates cut off the @usernames with a '...' because both cannot fit into the small area (On iPhone). If this doesn't bother you then you can leave everything as is, but if it does (It bothers me a lot.) then you'll have to either disable long form dates or show only @usernames or full names. Luckily, all these options are still available.

I have still not been able to find a single twitter logo inside Tweetbot anywhere, much less always visible on the main timeline.

Unless I am missing them somehow, Tweetbot has no such links anywhere.

So all in all, our beloved Tweetbot remains relatively unchanged. The loss of our own avatars being displayed on the right side instead of the left like everyone else's is annoying, but not a huge deal. The fact that all the other options remain and most of the defaults have stayed the same as well makes me wonder what the purpose of these Twitter guidelines are if apps are not required to follow them. Or perhaps Tapbots is still just trying to see how much they can get away with before Twitter cracks down on them.

I find all these Twitter guidelines senseless. If every guideline Beasley discussed, which Tweetbot did not already conform to, had been implemented, would they have done anything other than degrade our experience? Why should Twitter care whether we see the @usernames after every full name or not? Why should they care what side the avatars appear on or what actions are grouped together? Why does it matter if timestamps are clickable or not, as long as some other place in the Tweet is clickable for the same purpose? It seems like Twitter is just doing everything they can to make the lives of third party devs more difficult.

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More on that later.

Update: I forgot to mention in the original post that these are only the changes made in the latest Tweetbot update, version 2.7.2. It is definitely possible, even probable, that in the future Tweetbot will have to implement more design changes to match Twitter's expectations. For now though, the above stands true.





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