Thursday, October 18, 2012

Tweetbot for Mac: born to die, but far from dead on arrival

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Just days after launching Netbot for iOS, a client for the new App.net social network, Tapbots is today launching Tweetbot for Mac for $19.99 in the Mac App Store. Tweetbot for Mac is everything we've come to expect from Tapbots: a charming, intuitive, feature-rich, and most importantly super-fast Twitter experience. It perfectly fills the hole left by Twitter for Mac, which is still operational but has grown decrepit and wonky after being abandoned by Twitter.


But there's more to the story. Tweetbot for Mac is for all intents and purposes the first major release of a Twitter app after the company made clear that it was showing third-party clients the door. Third party Twitter apps never constituted a large part of the site's traffic,...


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