I will stick with the official Twitter client in the Mac App Store because it is free.
I’m not saying it’s a bad app, I use tweetbot every day, but mainly to just check up on tech news, I rarely post. I appreciate it’s a small sub amount, its just without some major improvements or future deprecation, for me anyway there is no reason now to give them my money.
Same here.
But I do enjoy using Tweetbot for that (for me Twitter = Tweetbot), so I subscribe.
The price is very affordable for consumers; I hope it’s good enough for the producers as well…
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I’ve tried to use Tweetbot 5 (paid for it) but find myself going back to the Twitter native app. Probably because Tweetbot 5 does not have the capability of displaying who liked my Tweets. That’s Twitter’s way of making you use their app.
I guess the new subscription model puts Tweetbot 6 on par with Twitter’s app, but here’s the catch: Twitter’s design is pretty good, and the app is free, and I dont find the “promoted” tweets that intrusive. So it’s a tough sell.
Edit: clarification of Tweetbot 5’s limitation.
I’d like to try Tweetbot 6 for a month, but in another Apple Store shenanigan it seems that I would lose my Tweetbot 5 binary!!! If I were Tapbots I would probably be releasing another app altogether.
I completely agree, but I limit the number of other accounts I follow. Other people prefer to follow thousands of accounts, so probably won’t ready every tweet.
If you keep both on your phone, you shouldn’t lose one. Also you should still be able to download 5 from your purchased apps.
Obviously not everyone will think the way I do nor use the product the way I do — several posts above have me ready to yell into my keyboard, but I won’t – but it’s one thing to say “It’s not worth it to me” and another to say “That’s not enough features to be asking for money.”
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other way to follow hundreds (I doubt thousands 
) of accounts but still can handle the ‘firehose’ content is by using Twitter’s Lists feature.
Other helpful Twitter feature that quite ‘hidden’ is Collections, built-in Twitter bookmarking with tags. Currently only Charm for iOS that use this feature.
I might subscribe to Tweetbot 6 if they implement Collections
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Not a bad subscription price. I just prefer Twitterific.
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I presume that was aimed at me. Well for me there are not enough things in the new version to make it worth instantly upgrading (although I probably will anyway at some point). Yes we are all different and my usage of twitter is just to keep up to date with the apps so features like polls, likes etc are things that leaves me cold, in fact I never really got the whole “social media is really important” thing.
I am not knocking tapbots nor am I against subscriptions, and lets be honest $6 a year is negligible, just at the moment I see no compelling need or feature for me to upgrade. We are all different, and that’s worth shouting about and celebrating.
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It’s 50% off compared to paying monthly; it does not imply that the price will increase.
That’s what I think because of the prices I see:
- €0,99/month
- €6,49/year
The yearly option was advertised as 45% off in my case.
(I subscribed so I can no longer post a screenshot with that info)
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Sadly, it wouldn’t let me restore my purchase of v. 2 in 2011. 
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Absolutely not. I was referencing the way people use Twitter which I realise is as much about me as anyone else. To me, there are some behaviours on Twitter that make no sense to me, but I’m not living anyone else’s life, hence my statement “not everyone will think the way I do”.
I’m not sure what was the last version of Tweetbot I bought but I’m not a heavy Twitter user.
Didn’t feel like there was much of a need to pay for an app. I ended up using Tweetdeck on my Mac but falling into the trap of going to Twitter.com to view the cesspool.
Due to this thread, I ended up downloading the latest version of Tweetbot and I realized very quickly why it’s just such a better experience. No ads but more importantly, no trending icon staring me in my self-control-less self.
I avoid subs where I can but this seems very reasonable although I must say I thought having to pay for the Mac app after subscribing to iOS was a little off-putting and a curious move. I don’t yet have a need to buy the Mac app so I will hold off as only looking at Twitter on my iPad will limit my time on Twitter.
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I subscribed - on the strength that they’re now using API V2 - which is apparently a big advance.
Is it now possible to set up more precise mute filters, such as
mute tweets of @userA that are retweets of @userB
or
mute tweets in list Z that contain links to www.websiteY.com
or
mute tweets of @userC that contain links to www.websiteX.com
In Tweetbot 5 the mute filters were very basic.
Their website is practically useless at this point and the app’s description in the AppStore to shallow.
Thanks a lot!
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Has Tweetbot introduced an easy way to view threads? I’m not talking about a tweet and replies to the tweet, but a thread where one user posts a series of related tweets, in one “thread.” I LOVED Tweetbot for many years, but switched to Twitterrific because either this feature wasn’t in Tweetbot, or I was too dense to find it. If it had it, I’d probably switch back.
