From this top-level screen you can access powerful new settings, several different timelines, see what people are talking about, and find what you’re looking for. Accounts and searchesįrom the user screen you can view information about a user, see their timeline, and follow or block them.A raft of new Twitterrific features lurk in the new Sources screen, accessible from the timeline by tapping the back button in the top-left corner of the toolbar. If you tap on someone’s name, a hashtag, or even a URL, it will automatically be added to the tweet screen. Even better, you can use the peek feature to quickly add items to the tweet you’re composing. But the Iconfactory has compensated for the loss of reply context by creating a new “peek” button that slides the screen away, letting you view the original tweet. That’s gone now, replaced by a very nice new tweet-posting screen, with separate tabs for direct messages, replies, and standalone tweets. It used to be that when you replied to a tweet, you’d actually see the content of that tweet while you were writing a reply. Sadly, one of my favorite features of Twitterrific 1.0-one that turned out to be unique among Twitter apps-has vanished in this version. When you tap on a #hashtag, you’ll see the latest posts featuring that hashtag on Twitter in a native Twitterrific interface, not via Twitter’s web version, as in previous versions. You can also follow, unfollow, or block a user from that screen.
If someone references a user’s when you tap on that name Twitterrific will display a screen with access to that user’s information, timeline, and even your favorites for that user. You can also act directly on items within tweets.
Touch the new action menu (it’s an asterisk icon), and instead you’re provided with options to make a new tweet with a link to the tweet you’ve selected, “retweet” the content of the tweet in a new message (with two configurable options for the format you use to retweet), view the author’s timeline, view the author’s user information, view the entire conversation of which the tweet is a part, delete the tweet, e-mail the tweet to a friend, mark it for later use, or set it as a favorite. The big change is on the bottom: Tap on the new filter menu (the icon looks like a funnel when it’s inactive), and you can filter your timeline, focusing on just replies, direct messages, favorites, messages you’ve sent, and messages you’ve marked for later use.
The filter button lets you limit your timeline to mentions, direct messages, and other message types.The app’s tweet-reading view looks pretty much the same as in the previous version, with the exception of a new toolbar on top (which allows you to toggle between large, medium, and brand-new teensy type display modes, as well as open the new Sources screen). That philosophy still underlies this version, but layered on top are a zillion and one new features that exploit the growth of Twitter and the increasing power of the system app developers use to connect with Twitter. The first version of Twitterrific was obsessively focused on streamlining the reading experience.