I am SO sad. I love Twitterriffic. It was the first Twitter client I used and every attempt to replace it has brought me back to it. Sure, I am admittedly addicted to the Tweeting bird sound, but that’s not all. It’s clean, fast and uncluttered. Despite missing some MAJOR features (like Retweet. Hello?!) I still use it.
Well, that’s over. At least for the iPhone version. IconFactory just released their 3.0 version, after basically going dark about it, and releasing instead, tons of icon packs. So, their customers (like myself) waited and waited. We eyed other apps. We tried out Tweetie which handled a lot of things better, but has a unique, nonstandard, and interesting (yet kindof wonky after heavy use) interface. Well, here it is, and I can tell you that they just lost me and here’s why — and I haven’t even really used it heavily:
1. They made the avatar icons smaller and increased the font size, and offer no preferences/settings to change it.
2. No geotagging support that I can find.
3. Removed multiple account support (now in paid version)
4. Removed all the convenient bottom row icons in favor of a stupid “more actions” button
5. “Nearby” seems to be gone. Maybe it’s somewhere
6. The awesome filter button is gone.
7. Settings seems to be just…gone.
At least it has Retweet.
Here are some things that had to be added or it was a total flop:
1. Lists
2. Delete Tweet
3. Search
It just appears to me that this release is a huge step backwards with seemingly less feautres. Maybe it was a complete redesign and they just couldn’t get all the features into the new codebase…not like they didn’t have a TON of time between releases. Alas, to me it seems like they just don’t care anymore. It seemed to me this was their flagship product, but maybe they see the hostile actions taken by Twitter as a sign to drop Twitter and focus on making fun eye candy instead.
I will continue to use Twitterrific on the desktop, switching to Tweetie only when I need to manage my other accounts (increasingly often). I am sad to go b/c I really wanted 3.0 to be a success. It isn’t.