Monday is here and as promised, atebits has released Tweetie for Mac. Having spent the $2.99 for the iPhone version I had high hopes for the Mac version. With a couple exceptions, it is great!
I’ve been a Twhirl user for some time, it ended up being the better of many, many twitter clients. I think I may switch, however to Tweetie for one feature alone: Conversation view. Being able to click on a conversation I have no context for and seeing what is going on makes so much sense, I’m suprised it hasn’t happened before. (It may have, I just haven’t looked)
The worst part, no opacity option. While this seems simple enough to ignore, It helped in the focus department. Set the opacity to 20% when not active and you don’t see the thousands of tweets streaming by every second.
Sacrifice! I’ll have to sacrifice opacity for a better, in my opinion, UI. Good UI makes me happy.