The Mac is finally getting some seriously awesome, native clients. Say what you want about TweetDeck or Seesmic Desktop – these are all based on Adobe’s AIR platform, which is notorious for eating up memory and CPU cycles, along with weird window placement quirks. Earlier this month Nambu got a huge upgrade, and has quickly become my Twitter client of choice. But that might change next Monday, when Tweetie – easily one of the best Twitter clients on the iPhone – comes to the Mac desktop.
Less than an hour ago atebits, the one-man company behind Tweetie, posted a demo video of their new Twitter client, which we’ve embedded below. We’ve also managed to get our hands on an early build of the product, and it doesn’t fail to impress. We’ll reserve our full review for Monday, but here are some of my initial impressions:
- The app deals with photos from sites like TwitPic perfectly – images pop up quickly in lightweight windows, without having to open a browser
- Sending images is also perfectly executed. Just drag and drop the image from your desktop to Tweetie’s new message field, and it does the rest.
- While there isn’t currently a way to get a Column view similar to TweetDeck’s, you can break out as many search panes as you’d like, each of which is treated as its own window (this is great for when you only need to keep track of a search term temporarily).
- As with Tweetie on the iPhone, it just feels so Mac. The icons do what you think they should, and there aren’t any extraneous text fields or buttons
- Global Hotkeys. Awesome.
Tweetie will offer a free version that will be ad supported, as well as a paid ad-free version app for $14.95. Stay tuned.
Main window, with popup TinyPic image at left
New message window in the foreground (activated with a global hotkey). Search and main windows in the background
Such an incredible looking app. And the ads from http://fusionads.net will be awesome.
By the way, no one has announced a price for it yet. I guess you guys made that decision for them. Poor show.
Noice….
Finally, Mac users get some love!
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This is the 5th Twitter story today on TechCrunch. That in itself is fascinating.
The app looks amazing. Their iphone client has already set the bar for all apps to follow… needless to say they know what makes a killer app and I can’t wait to try it out.
Looks amazing, hopefully this will force Twitterrific to step up their game a little bit. Twitterrific is currently my desktop Twitter client of choice but end up missing many of the features I have with Tweetie, now I will have them all.
An app I would love to use. The layout is awesome…Mac people are gonna just love it
LOCK IN! LETS GO!
I literally can not wait! It’ll be awesome!
Literally?
Welcome to the “Twit” generation.
I am very excited for Tweetie to come out on monday. My favorite mac desktop currently is DestroyTwitter. We will see if Tweetie can persuade me to switch clients. I am glad there is a paid version and a free version so I can try it out before I pay for it. Smart move by the developer. : )
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Yeah, that’s how Twitter was meant to be used!
Will it let you organize people into different columns and groups like Tweetdeck? When you follow alot of people this is helpful. And will it work on 10.4.11??
My current client is Nambu. I used to use TweetDeck but the memory leak issues are just a killer.
I hope that this client will be as good as their iPhone client. It looks promising based on this little preview.
Will it let you have groups in columns? Will it work on 10.4.11?
wow. I can’t wait – tweetie is awesome on the iphone. Having tried: Tweetdeck, Eventbox, and Nambu … I have been wishing for the clean smart UX of tweetie for OSX to replace all of the aforementioned. Ask and you shall receive I guess… huge opportunity for tweetie here. I would add that this might be an example of apps that start on the iPhone, gain traction and then move to the web or desktop – smart move. I wonder if taskpaper can get their act together on an integrated iPhone app… ?
Looks great. It’s a pitty that I look to windows.
This is Awesome!
@lorenb is genius. have you seen the @borange iphone app interface? he does most of that, too.
What I would really like to see soon is some kind of IMAP version of twitter. So when I see tweets on my iphone they get automatically mark as read on desktop app. That would be awesome
I’ll give it a whirl, but hopefully the ads aren’t too annoying, because I just can’t see myself paying for a Twitter client. Too many free ones without ads out there.
Was hoping for it … and it’s almost there. Thanks a lot for your wonderful products. Tweetie is the best iPhone twitter app so far
Tweetie for Mac looks incredible!! Sure Mac lovers will fall for it.
nice post!
FInally an app? what about the ZILLION AIR apps out there?
Did you read what he said? He said “finally… some seriously awesome, native clients.”
Air apps are not native.
excited to test this out. Tweetie is the best iPhone twitter client period….
So looking forward to this client on the MAC. Use Tweetdeck on the the PC.
Are there any Twitter apps that show the messages with older first? I hate having to start up any Twitter client, scroll to the bottom, and then work my way to the top.
This is going to be a killer app. Not sure if I’ll use but pretty sure I’ll try it.
Twitter client war reminds of email client war 10 years ago. Look how many are still around. 2 or 3 on a billion user market.
Talking about risky business…
Love Tweetie on my iPhone, looking forward to running it on my Mac as well!
Did they get permission to use the song for the demo video? Sometimes it’s baffling how companies use non royalty free stuff for their product promotion and then are surprised to get a letter with a big invoice attached. Or did the licensing rules change without me noticing?
Looks like a great app. Look forward to get in on my desktop.
Yeah, we did.
Would like to know the artist and song in the demo, bad ass sound…
This app looks really cool. Can’t wait to install.
I prefer Twitterfon on the iphone but I will checkout Tweetie for the Mac when it is released. Wonder how Nambu will respond to this.
Any chance this will also be able to grab your Facebook feed as well, as Event box currently does?
“these are all based on Adobe’s AIR platform, which is notorious for eating up memory and CPU cycles, along with weird window placement quirks”
Blame the developer, not the platform. It’s not AIR’s fault that most Flash developers don’t know jack shit about real application development. It’s just as easy to make a native application that hogs CPU, RAM and has “window placement quirks” whatever that means.
There are plenty of people making great AIR apps that are not CPU hogs, keep a very small memory footprint and know how to manage windows properly.