When searching for a person, either by real name or user name, the results are displayed as avatars. Perhaps Twitterrific 5’s coolest feature is its people search. As a shortcut, tapping and holding on your avatar lets you quickly switch accounts. It slides into view underneath your avatar and is dismissed quickly when you tap your avatar or the done button. The slate panel, which can be pinned in the landscape orientation on the iPad, is convenient to access and feels nifty. Tapping on your avatar reveals a panel with saved searches, your Twitter lists, additional accounts, themes, and settings. As far as locations go, they aren’t shown directly on the timeline - they’re hidden behind a small navigation icon (which I think is another great feature and something that Twitter should do themselves). Alternately, tapping on the conversation icon brings up a view where you can see what someone replied to and the replies that follow. Two new gestures added to Twitterrific let you swipe right to reply to a tweet, and swipe left to see replies. Tapping and holding on tweets let you copy a tweet or a link to it, while doing the same for links brings up actions such as sending the URL to Pocket. Tapping on tweets reveals actions for replying, retweeting, or favoriting, while ellipses hide actions such as translating tweets or retweeting with a comment. Tapping and holding on the camera icon, as a convenient shortcut, attaches the last photo taken.Īll of the usual action sheets you’d expect to appear when tapping on tweets still exist. As the app completed usernames, it sometimes would hang as I backspaced. This is the only spot in Twitterrific where I noticed some performance hitches. A tweet sheet slides into view, letting you attach photos and your location information, and auto completing usernames as you type. While initiating messages isn’t obvious, replying to messages is much easier.Ĭomposing tweets should be familiar to previous Twitterrific users. Although, you still have to clumsily tweet with the d syntax to send someone a message (or you can visit their profile and tap the message icon). Individuals you message are appropriately separated and organized. The Messages view in particular no longer unifies sent and received messages in a single stream. For more visual simplicity, pulling the Twitter feed up and down with two fingers will hide and unhide the status bar.įor me, the vastly improved Message view alone is worth the upgrade. Largely, it’s made possible as pull-to-refresh replaces a refresh button. As an additional benefit, tweets are no longer squished between a compose bar and a title bar, increasing the number of tweets and the amount of text that can be displayed on your iPhone. Reintroducing these controls above the timeline on the iPhone (Twitterrific 2 had a tab bar) makes sense once you realize that the unified timeline can be turned off, and that visual simplicity is maintained in the landscape orientation on the iPad. On the iPhone, Favorites are tucked underneath your avatar, whereas Favorites are added to the row of buttons on the iPad. No longer buried behind a back button on the iPhone, All Tweets, Mentions, and Messages have been grouped above your Twitter feed in a simple row.
In contrast to colored entries and standard rectangular iOS elements, it is typography, floating buttons, and rounded corners that are pervasive in the new Twitterrific. It’s both instantly recognizable and obviously different. Twitterrific 5 presents itself dressed in black with Helvetica accents and familiar shades of orange and blue for mentions and messages. No text hangs off the screen - no “ CTURES” as Federico and I will joke. Thankfully, Twitterrific 5 is as much of an iOS app as it ever was. And it’s one I’ve seen echoed on Twitter as I watched the tweets scroll by. Like Track 8.” It’s an absolutely fair assessment.
#Twitterrific pull to refresh windows 8#
Sharing the first pic of Twitterrific 5 with my coworkers resulted in an immediate, “Wow.” After a few more screenshots, “That looks like a Windows 8 app. The Iconfactory’s latest iteration of their famed Twitter client is shockingly different isn’t it? The same gut reactions I watched unfold on Twitter could not better describe the same gut reactions I had when I first saw just how striking the new interface is. Alas, it was bound to leak, unsurprisingly by Apple’s Japanese App Store. It’s been fun to watch Twitter’s reaction to an app that I, and other writers, wanted to surprise the world with.
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