Twitter App Reviews

The good: allows you to post tweets (with photos and animated gifs), read your timeline, have multiple accounts, and it’s relatively compact. Seems to be under active development (for now) The bad: timetime auto-scrolling just seems to stall for no apparent reason. Would like: To filter (hide) tweets based on keywords and hashtags. As politics start heating up, this is a MUST HAVE feature. Most of this is in Tweetdeck, but Tweetdeck basically needs an entire monitor dedicated to it, so that’s out for me.

I dont know why Twitter wasted the time or effort to release this downgrade of an app. The early version was semi-acceptable, but the newest version is just horrible. 1. Polls do not work 2. Hashtag auto-completion is unusable 3. Username auto-completion is unusable 4. Uploading images often yields a confusing error message about an invalid parameter 5. Adding people to lists is majorly broken (not all my lists are shown) 6. Lists arent alphabetically sorted (impossible to find a list in the list of lists) I could pick it apart a bunch more, but its clear that they didnt invest time into user testing before releasing this, so Ill leave it at 6 items for now.

This app ihas been my Twitter standard for years, but since the ‘upgrade’ it has been a constant headache. It’s a memory hog that freezes constantly and has to be forced to quit. I mean All.The.Time. When you click on someone’s profile pic it will kick you out of their profile repeatedly. I would like the functionality it’s supposed to have, but it’s a nightmare in its current state.

Slow, lags, often crashes. Feels like a web app rather than part of the OS. Scrolling very jerky and not smooth. Very disappointed in the 4.x releases. Will look into removing this and using older version unfortunately.

Horrendus app development. I would be embarassed to be on this team. The app crashes multiple times a day, becomes extremely slow after a few hours, asks to reconnect half a dozen times a day, pictures freeze or immediately disappear after opening. The list goes on.

Twitter has been my favorite social media platform for many years. Now, with this new app I can’t enjoy it. I used to have the Twitter app open on my Macbook all the time. I would resize other apps I was working on to keep looking at the Twitter feed. Now that’s not possible, auto refresh or scroll to top, however you want to call it, doesn’t work. Even if I click on the home button, it doesn’t scroll to the top, it just does all kinds of ramdom things. And, oh, the icing on the cake: it freezes every couple of hours!!! I’m going to look around for the old version of try other clients.

I really want to like this app, but on several occasions it eats up a lot of usage and locks up, just today it got so bad I had to restart my computer as Force quit wasn’t responding. Considering it took forever to add gid and quoted tweet support, I imagine I’m just going to have to go back to the browser as it really doesn’t seem like Twitter’s development team cares about this app on this platform

The performance of this app is horrible. Adding more than 1 twitter profile to “manage” drains the performance of your computer DRASTICALLY. When I removed the app from running on my Macbook Pro, it freed up nearly 20% of my machines memory. Horrible just like the rest of Twitter’s support.

Much better than expensive $10 tweetbot.. If I have to choose to pay $10 for one of these apps, I would choose this app for sure. Glad it’s free! :)

The current version pegs the CPU, often at 100% and forces the beachball to appear. The app is often unresponsive, requiring a forced shutdown. Previous versions were fine. Needs to be fixed!

The new design is worse than the old. Futhermore, if you leave the app running in the background it will slowly consume memory. Ultimately it will consume so much memory the system will be depleted and one will need to kill the app or the system and other apps will stop working correctly. Awful.

Really… Seriously… Or rather let us go back to the previous version?

Since it’s a bit difficult to get in touch with Twitter support directly about the Mac app, I just wanted to mention that, as several other folks have noted about this current version of the app, the “auto-refresh latest tweets to the top” feature doesn’t work very well. I leave the app on all day, and it’s about 50/50 whether the app will auto-refresh and scroll to the top vs. not scroll at all. The really frustrating thing is that there doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to how/why/when it fails. I’ve tried to test it a few ways, but the failure is inconsistent. Hopefully this gets fixed soon. It’s a bit frustrating.

Why, Why WHY did you take away the unlimited-character direct messaging in this new version? The limit was lifted a while ago. The previous version of twitter supported this. Why is there a character restriction on private messages, again? The mobile client, which this version is supposed to emulate, has no such restrictions. Please fix this. I personally hate inline video in any social media application, so this is not an improvement. GIF support is not an improvement. A “dark” interface is not an improvement. Group direct messages is not an improvement. Removing the ability to send longer-than-140-character direct messages was a horrible decision, and NOT AN IMPROVEMENT. ———— After a day of use, I’ve found that the usability is close to non-existent. If you type more than about 5 words quickly, the app freezes and the rainbow just spins and spins. When this happened, I continued typing anyway. It took (I wish I was exaggerating) 10 minutes for the Twitter application to catch up with what I said. The message appeared on my iPhone, but another 2 minutes passed before I saw it in the application on my desktop. It freezes repeatedly. Moving to a browser, then back to Twitter to write a message causes the application to freeze. Typing too quickly seems to make it freeze. Using the backspace key seems to make it freeze. I would hear the notification of a message arriving on my phone, and had to wait over 3 minutes for the message to arrive in the Twitter application on my desktop. If I could give this zero stars, I would. ———————————————————— Update as of March 15, 2016 A month and a half after the latest update to the app, and it is still super buggy. After running for 15 minutes, any time you type more than about 30wpm, you get the spinning beachball of death. I use twitter for the occasional public tweet but mostly use the messaging side of the app. With one person in my twitter feed, there is still major lag. An average of 3-4 minutes lapse between the time I hit enter and the time the tweet shows up on my screen. In the meantime, it just hangs. Seriously, before version 4.x, twitter for mac was pretty sweet. Now, it is garbage. The only reason I haven’t uninstalled it is because I live with eternal hope that one day there will be an update to the app that actually works.

Worst navigation. Could have been much better. would like to see features something like in iphone twitter application.

The “new and improved” Mac version continues to be absolutely terrible. The broken (repetitive) notifications got fixed only to be replaced by Twitter now consuming 100% of my CPU, causing my fans to run at max speed and killing my battery in no time at all. You’re twitter, one of the true tech unicorns and there is no excuse for this. If you’re going to close off your API from 3rd party clients you’d better have a good client yourself. You don’t.

I used to use the previoius version of this app constantly. Now, it’s completely useless. Previously, you could scroll and look at the timeline, or any individual user’s timeline, and the app respected where you wanted to look. Now, the timeline jumps as new tweets arrive, so you can’t read any tweet. It is beyond frustrating. I turned off the “scroll to top” feature in preferences HOPING that would stop this awful behavior. But it doesn’t seem to do anything. Please fix this app. Until then, I willl no longer use it, nor any version of Twitter on my computer. Thankfully the iOS app has not been ruined… at least not yet.

It freezes up too much. I like having it open instead of being on my phone if I’m doing work, but it contanstly freezes up without me even noticing and I constantly have to force quit it. Definitely needs a lot of bug fixes.

I use the official twitter iOS app religiously… Its the only client I like (I tried tweetbot, didnt like it), and so I was extremely happy when they finally updated the app for OSX… little did I know that that update would fundamentaly break something that was working perfectly before. The OSX app for intents and purposes was functioning just fine prior to its major overhaul in Feb, but twitter wanted to bring it up to speed with its iOS cousin and introduce many features that were on the IOS version for months, like unlimited characters for DM’s, but all they did was end up making the app unuseable. What a shame. Weeks later, twitter put out an update which was supposed to fix a lot of the crashing issues and stable out the app for its users, but all it has done so far, is slow it down completely. It doesn’t crash anymore, but it still locks up, it still hangs, it still lags when you type out a tweet. The timeline does not auto update… the notficiation for retweets or replies is not real time, and sometimes DM notifications do not come through at all.. How does a company who has such a great IOS screw up so badly with the OSX version? If I were you, I’d stay away from this app for the time being until they get their ducks in a row and fix these issues.

I was hoping for an application that would replace the website and do more, including let me go fullscreen and somehow be ‘more immersed’ in Twitter, without the limitations of a web browser. Instead I got a replacement for the website, apparently with the same functionality (but see other reviews). Not bad, but it could be better.