I did, or at least am trying to. You have to get over some weird bugs (like seemingly random per-user notifications), but afterwards you may come to like it.
@gruber I love it. I use just two views: Home Timeline and Notifications (which is the best). Love multiple photos. Love twitter cards. HELP
— Cabel Sasser (@cabel) June 9, 2014
— Ged Maheux (@gedeon) June 9, 2014
@gedeon @sdw @gruber I can't say I'm proud and I can't say it's fair (as the two features I love most Twitter is keeping to themselves) :(
— Cabel Sasser (@cabel) June 9, 2014
I’ve been a Twitterrific user for years on Mac and iOS, but the writing is on the wall. All the newest features like multiple photos, cards, photo tagging, archive search, and per-user notifications are all only on Twitter’s apps.
You know exactly what’s going on: they want to shut down all traditional apps that aren’t their own. Rather than reeling them in they’re going to restrict new features on their own apps until everybody switches.
And frankly, I feel like using Twitter’s own apps reveals the true Twitter, whatever that is. It’s like surfing the web without ad-blocker. It’s the true web, even if it is ad-ridden (although, I haven’t found the ads to be that bad).
There are only a couple of features I miss from Twitterrific: dark/night mode and timeline syncing between devices. Third party apps don’t give you animated gifs (which are actually video files on twitter’s servers), they don’t give you activities…they can’t. There’s no public API for it. But once new features outweigh what you like in your current client, you may never open a third-party client again.
Further reading: Twitter California Knife