You can fave tweets, mark as read, open URLs and lot more with keyboard shortcuts: this, combined with a 3rd party utility like BetterTouchTool, makes Echofon a winner for keyboard support and menu extensibility.īack to the timeline, tweets / mentions / messages / search are divided in different tabs like you’re probably used to, but there’s the addiction of lists here.
Speaking of keyboard shortcuts, there are plenty of them, to accomplish a huge variety of actions. Also, clicking on the aforementioned profile picture in the text field lets you send a tweet with another account. You don’t see all the accounts you’ve set up like in you-know-which-application, but you can switch between them with a simple keyboard shortcut. And this leads to me to the support for multiple accounts, which is well implemented. Sending a new tweet is completely different from Loren’s app, as instead of having a separate window to do so, there’s a bottom text field, next to your profile picture. Inline images, favorites, user profiles: it’s all there, packed in a single interface. That said, Echofon is a damn good client, which allows you to perform almost anything you could ever ask for. Seriously? At least, give us the option to choose, like Tweetie 2 for iPhone does - I personally can’t stand the RT tweets. Echofon doesn’t have all of this: if you choose “retweet with comment” from the on-tweet contextual menu (right click on a message) the new tweet field will be filled with a “RT message.
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Tweetie 2 for iPhone lets you quote tweets with the /via syntax, Tweetie for Mac supports only the (via) one, but it’s easily adjustable by just deleting two brackets and inserting a slash. By repost I mean the old style retweets, those with (via and the new /via syntax. Let me mention them straight up so we can talk about the good stuff later: first, you can’t repost (or “ quote”) tweets the way Tweetie lets you do. Playing around with the advanced settings you can also sign in with your bit.ly account (works great with bitly.pro too) and use SLL for all requests, though it might be a little slower.Īs you can see, the Preferences of Echofon are massive, but what about the Twitter experience itself?Įchofon comes with a lot of features, but there are some caveats that kept me away from using it and returning to Tweetie everytime. From the preferences you can also change font and image size, adjust the refresh interval (1 minute is just great for me), choose what position Echofon should have when new tweets arrive (auto scroll to top or mantain position? For me it’s mantain), send tweets on ⌘ + Return (again, like Tweetie) and open links in the background. From the same account screen in the prefs you can enable the sync with Echofon, which should basically keep the read tweets actually “read” between the Mac and iPhone client guess what, this is one of the most wanted features in Tweetie 2 for Mac. What about badge dock icon for DMs and Lists? You can do that as well, if you want. After a successfull login you’ll be able to customize almost everything out of the behaviour the app should have with the newly created account: wanna turn on Growl notifications for mentions? Sure you can. To set up a new account in Echofon, you’ll have to enter the Preferences (pretty much like Tweetie) and sign in with your username and password. White is the main color in the twitter stream, icons are located in the top toolbar and have a minimal approach, there are no additional elements cluttering the UI, at least in the default view.
One thing you’ll immediately notice about Echofon, is its clean interface. I never tried Echofon before, but I decided to give it a spin after all this talking about the Mac version being good, stable and faster than Tweetie.
And in most cases, the “another one” is Echofon for Mac.
But on the other hand, there are many users who got tired of waiting months and months to have a Twitter client which supported - say - native retweets and lists, so they changed their default application from Tweetie to another one. As you can guess, Tweetie 2 for Mac is one of the most anticipated apps of 2010, and the user base is literally going crazy to put their hands on Loren’s newest creation. This thing alone made the MacHeist double their sales in two days. If you followed the latest MacHeist nanoBundle 2 happenings, you should know that Loren Brichter (atebits) teamed up with the MacHeist team to a) include Tweetie for Mac in the bundle and b) offer the possibility to enter the beta of Tweetie 2 as soon as it will be out.
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