but i have to say, i think the app is dramatically *un-streamlined*. it may be more obvious, and i can see why that’s a good thing. i’m a web/ui designer, so i get it. i really do. but twitterrific was like an extension of my brain in a way i don’t think the new version can be. it all comes down to too many taps and screens. going back and forth to see timeline, filter by @replies or dm’s, etc. it’s too much, and all the taps and little delays add up to a frustrating experience that feels laborious. it’s not empirically a lot more time or effort, but it really feels like it.

a few examples of things i *loved* that are gone:

- tap on tweet to select it. i just want to select, i don’t want to go to a new screen dedicated to that tweet. i’ve never liked this behavior in any client. it takes the tweet out of context and has always seemed unnecessary. i want to *select* and then *act*. not select/slide/view options/choose option/act. it’s subtle, but it’s huge.

- filter from the menu bar. it’s basic and a lot of clients use this approach. just makes sense to me. a separate view for timeline/replies/dms etc etc is perfect for the ipad when i can see both at the same time. not good on the iphone where i have to constantly go back and forth. there are three areas i want to look at very often and very easily, and now it’s multiple taps that change screens to go between them.

- tweet/reply button. this was always one of my absolutely favorite features. it converts to a reply button when a tweet is selected, and the tabs to change what i’m doing when composing were brilliant. it always felt seamless and like there was a great flow. like things folded elegantly into other things. power without undue complexity. that is lost.

- double-tap for conversations. again, a simple, elegant solution to allow the user to access a lot of information with little effort and little mental gear-shifting.

- wonderful ui touches. just delightful little details that always made me feel like i was using an app made by *someone*. it had character.

these are just some of the reasons i loved twitterific. and not only were these things well-done, many features in the app were unique to twitterific. i always thought it had a strong sense of style and an opinion, rather than being sort of cookie-cutter, like so many of the twitter clients are.

anyway, sorry to go on. i’m looking for another client now, that will at least do some of these things in a similar fashion. i don’t hold out much hope that i’ll get closer than 75%, and there’s nothing else with the style and flair of twitterrific, as far as i know. perhaps i’m in the minority, but i’m really going to miss the old bird.

Most irritating that I no longer have that function – I used to use it to flag interesting tweets that I wanted to go back to and look at in more detail if I had time.

I don’t sync my devices, so I didn’t care that it wasn’t syncable. Perhaps if I had Twitteriffic on my home computer I’d be vaguely interested in the possibility, but I only sync with my Mac when I have new podcasts to download.

Not being able to sync between devices doesn’t matter to me so much as the ability to use the “marked tweets” feature to view articles for later reading while offline. (so I wouldn’t go so far as claiming the feature to be “useless”- I certainly found a use for it)

In my scouring the net for other clients that have this functionality, I found several people who were either looking for the same feature, excited that v2 had it or were dismayed that v3 lost it (I’d be happy to link them to you if you need further proof that this feature is sorely missed from v3).

And to the people out there that complain that the feature doesn’t sync across devices: Honestly, isn’t it better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it?

Thanks for your time, Ged!

We liked marking tweets too, although we were unsure how many users actually used that feature. We now know that there were quite a few. At any rate, if we had kept marking tweets but didn’t have a way to sync them across devices, that would have been next to useless. Tweets you marked on your iPhone wouldn’t show up as marked on your iPad. This would have led to more frustration for users and we would have been yelled at for this as well. Given that, we decided to remove marks until such time as we can get them synced across all devices. Then they’ll most likely return.

Hope this helps.

Since I shouldn’t hold my breath for this feature’s return, does anyone know of another ipod / iphone app for Twitter that will allow me to mark tweets off for later viewing?
If it returns, I’ll be back to using Twitterrific. I liked it. It was everything I wanted in a twitter app.,, Until you took this feature out.

We know its not as fast as it used to be, but the trade off in simplicity was worth it in our opinion for new users. Hang in there, thanks.