Tweetbot’s look and feel is closest to Twitter for Mac.
Best Twitter clients for Mac Tweetbot ($9.99) All of these apps are available in the Mac App Store. With the official Twitter for Mac app now discontinued by Twitter, here’s a recap of the best available clients on macOS. They all do the same basic thing, with some leeway for new approaches and design to set them apart. Users are already noticing that they can no longer log in and use the Twitter for Mac app, and are seeing ‘could not authenticate you’ and ‘private account’ errors.
Twitter for Mac is no longer available to download and is officially unsupported as of today, March 16. Personal preference is a big factor here, so I separated out some individual impressions too … Below is my roundup of the best Twitter client apps for Mac currently available: Tweetbot, Twitterrific and TweetDeck. The app had been abandoned for months (years?) before that, so it wasn’t exactly a huge loss, but it meant that I needed to migrate to a new app.īelieve it or not, I’ve used Twitter for Mac until the very end. Overall, if you are someone running a business or someone who plans to do a lot with their Twitter account, TweetDeck could be the best app for you.Last month, Twitter announced that it was ending support for its desktop Mac Twitter client today. It certainly helps us if we ever need to include a GIF in a tweet. Since Twitter does have this on their website, it makes sense for them to have it on TweetDeck. My last favorite feature about this app is that you can post GIFs within the app. This feature has been added to other Mac apps over the last couple of years, such as Tweetbot for Mac and Day One. TweetDeck for Mac in 2019 does have a Dark Mode to it, so you will not have to worry about getting blinded by your Mac’s screen. It truly does come in handy and is something that I use on a weekly basis. I used it for Appleosophy on the day of our coverage for the March 2019 Apple Event. Now, this probably does not apply to people like me who just post random tech-related things on Twitter, but if you run some form of business, scheduling tweets can be a godsend. It’s a great feature in TweetDeck and another reason that I like it so much.Īnother great feature in this app is that you can schedule tweets. What a streaming timeline is is that you don’t have to scroll up to refresh the timeline and that the app refreshes the timeline all by itself. This is a feature that Tweetbot and Twitterrific had, but was taken away in August 2018 after Twitter changed their API for third-party apps.
The first thing that I like about this app is that it has a streaming timeline. When I wrote for TeamApple News and balanced their Twitter account, I used Twitterrific, but then ran into some issues when it came to some features that only Twitter and TweetDeck have. I have been using the app over the last 2-3 weeks to manage Appleosophy’s own Twitter account. Twitter did get rid of their own official Twitter app last year for unknown reasons, but the TweetDeck app still existed on the Mac App Store but did not any sort of updates until this year.
Earlier this year, Twitter updated its alternative Twitter client for the Mac.