Tapbots has updated Tweetbot app for iOS and Mac ahead of Twitter’s new 1.1 API guidelines for third party applications to go in effect from March 5. The updated version for Mac adds in thumbnail support for Vine and Flickr, inclusion of .mp4 videos attachments to new tweets, and new menubar icon options along with option to manage visibility of tweet notifications. Users will require to update to the new version before the new API rules become effective.
The new version will allow users to control the reception of notifications of tweets from a specific user. So one can simply disable or enable the notifications on any new tweet by specific users. This will also enable the user to reorder accounts as per account preferences. The users will now be able to add thumbnail for Flickr and Vine from the feed. There also is support for adding .mp4 video to tweets, which can also be dragged into the app icon to create a new tweet. There are improvements and fixes done to several other issues to improve the user experience.
These tweaks go as follows:
- Fixed the issue where ‘goto user’ would fail if there was a space before or after the username.
- Fixed the issue where a twitter search url didn’t work as expected in some cases.
- Fixed the issue where if someone faved your tweet it looked like you faved it.
- Can now open profiles or tweets on twitter.com
- Clicking on the date label in the status detail will open in your browser.
- If the username/hashtag completion popover appears and you press up arrow when there’s no selection or the top item selected, the popover now goes away. Same when at the bottom.
- ‘View in Favstar’ now respects open links in background preference
- Fixed the issue where when creating new tweet, typing something, hitting escape and then clicking somewhere would dismiss the tweet.
- Fixed the issue with changing muted keyword durations
Users will have to update the app to this new version in order to use it post March 5.
