Tweetie 2 for Mac Isn’t Dead… Despite What Twitter Says

John Brownlee (8:34 am PDT, Oct 20 2010)

Tweetie 2 for Mac Isn’t Dead… Despite What Twitter Says

Tweetie for Mac is still my go-to Twitter client on OS X… but man, is it getting long in the tooth. In fact, short of mere habit, I don’t know why I stick with it. It’s painfully behind the times when it comes to the features of more modern and well developed Twitter clients, it doesn’t handle stock Twitter functionality like retweets right… and the long promised updated, Tweetie 2, is still nowhere to be seen, despite Twitter itself acquiring Tweetie’s mobile versions. Is Tweetie for Mac vaporware?

For a little while, it certainly seemed so, as no lesser person than Twitter founder Evan Williams himself said that Twitter was not “actively investing” in Tweetie for Mac at this time.

That was pretty astonishing news… particularly to MacHeist director John Casanta, who says he’s been in contact with Tweetie dev Loren Brichter. Brichter was quick to allay fears: Tweetie 2 for Mac is still being worked upon, albeit less actively due to Twitter’s acquisition of their mobile products.

Great news… but when is Tweetie 2 coming out? I’m not really sure I can hold out much longer.

[via TUAW]

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3 comments »

  • http://luke-sha.net Luke

    i’m with you, 100%. i still use Tweetie, everyday, and i know a whole load of folks who do as well. it’s genuinely the best desktop Twitter client on any platform, hands down.

    honest to god, if Brichter merely released a 1.9 version that handled retweets properly… i would be happy and could wait for the proper 2.0 even longer, possibly even forget about it.

  • http://willj.net/ Will

    What threw me was how Evan spoke so authoritatively on the state of Tweetie. The tone of his tweet made it sound like the decision to continue with Tweetie 2 development lay with twitter when a slightly more honest answer might have been “You need to ask Loren about that, it’s nothing to do with Twitter”

    For instance if someone asked me:

    @will_j Is the iPad rotation lock switch dead?

    I could have answered in the same way. Nothing to do with me…

  • http://mandmlimo.com M. Malik

    Try Echofon for Mac. It’s far ahead of Tweetie in my books… Supports lists and retweets with handy keyboard shortcuts.

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John BrownleeJohn Brownlee is news editor here at Cult of Mac, and has also written about a lot of things for a lot of different places, including Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, AMC, Geek and the Consumerist. He lives in Cambridge with his charming inamorata and a tiny budgerigar punningly christened after Nabokov's most famous pervert. You can follow him here on Twitter.

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