What happened???

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.

Parisi about Twitter