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((I get that some people don’t like the look of the Twitter app and that is valid, but there are still better free options than this.)) I have been harsh on this app, more so than I normally would be, but I have been harsh because Iconfactory should be cranking out better apps than this.

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The biggest problem with Twitterrific 4 is that there is no compelling reason to use it over Twitter for Mac when you factor in the $9.99 price tag for the non-ad, mutli-user version. Making sure CMD+W closes picture previews and that dragging in pictures to a compose window attaches the image, is basic stuff for a 4th version product. Most of the problems can be easily fixed with updates, but for a version 4 product these issues should have never shipped. I can’t help but feel a lot was left out to get the app out.

The ads in the free version are from The Deck, so they look good, but they are still ads.

The icon: I don’t hate it, but I don’t love it.

This way I can compose many tweets at the same time. I like that the window is hidden and not static in the app, but I typically prefer a new window that pops up.

The compose window slides in from the top.

The pop-up window is much less confusing than sliding in a new ‘sheet’ like Twitter for Mac does. I have no clue why this isn’t standard on Mac Twitter apps, like it is iOS.

No drag and drop support for posting pictures - I mean I guess sending the file path for the picture could be useful at times.

((In the past I hated the live stream, but now it has really grown on me.))

No live streaming of the Twitter feed, which at this point is basic and mandatory.

So I can’t view the entire conversation thread, I just see messages in a confusing and un-helpful way.

This is my biggest gripe: the direct messages show up as a random hodgepodge based on the time sent.

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You can’t close image windows (Twitpic and the like) with the keyboard.There is a badge on the dock icon with a new tweet count, I never have been a fan of badge counts (exception on Mail.app).If you want two accounts you need to pay $9.99 - which is silly given that Twitter for Mac is free.

Light mode’s colors are not so good - particularly the mention color.

Not to mention that you can only resize the window to a certain point before you are forced to collapse the sidebar to continue to make the app a useable size. You also can’t collapse saved searches or global trends (though you can remove the trends). Twitter clients should always feel like small-apps and not like full-blown apps ((Who likes the way TweetDeck looks?)) - Twitterrific fails at this. Even with all icons removed it is still just too thick.

The title bar with all the icons is very imposing and throws off the balance of the entire app.

You could get used to this, but you shouldn’t have to get used to non-sense like this. Your new tweet, that was at the top of where you had read, is now mixed in with a jumble of other tweets.

Then when Twitterrific does update, the new tweets jump into position where they should be in the timeline. After you post a tweet your Twitter stream is not updated, so you see your new tweet at the top of the old tweets.I know a lot of people have been waiting for this app, but frankly it is just not a great app. Most of the values below this point are RGB color values, from 0 (0 percent) to 255 (100 percent).As most Mac Twitter users are aware, Twitterrific 4 was released. These are the color settings for a selected tweet in your timeline. The first set of stats, for example, is the key selected inside the key normalTweet.

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Open theme_ist and you’ll see a series of labels (set in key tags) that tell you what those settings are for. These files are all XML files, but they’re fairly readable. In there are the key files you need to edit, using TextEdit or any other text editor around: theme_ist and theme_ist are the files that define the two color schemes theme_ist, theme_desktop_ist, and theme_desktop_ist are the files that determine font sizes at the Smaller, Normal, and Larger settings. Inside the package.Inside the Twitterrific app package, there’s a Contents folder, and inside there is a Resources folder. But if you’re curious about taking Twitterrific and modifying it, here’s how. Don’t do it if you’re not comfortable with cracking open a package and editing XML files. Let me be clear: What follows is crazy stuff.

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I cracked open the Twitterrific’s application package itself (by control-clicking the app in the Finder and choosing Show Package Contents) and began editing the text files inside that determine how Twitterrific looks.

But irregular users like me can do crazy things, things that the developers of Twitterrific would never approve of.