Do you have to Use the brand new Twitter.com or a Twitter App? [Twitter]

Web apps! They’re increasingly more like real apps. Take the new Twitter .com. It’s pretty damned amazing. Is it so good you may ditch desktop Twitter apps forever?

The new Twitter feels a good deal like an application, slapped on top of Twitter.com. That’s partly because it’s built like an application. It uses an identical Twitter API that any third-party app does. The two-pane split view recalls the iPad Twitter app , and the design intent is essentially a similar: to keep you on Twitter.com whenever you’re consuming the content the folk you follow are tweeting. The correct pane is like an activity panel. It expands out to point out conversations between users, photos, videos, profile info, location and more. And the entirety flows insanely smoothly and dynamically, like an app. There’s infinite scrolling, so tweets keep coming as you scroll down. After you click the arrow to expand a tweet into the fitting panel, it shoots out like a card. There’s even keyboard shortcuts and autocomplete like a real app (or Gmail, another exemplary web app).

My default desktop app is Tweetie. It’s simple, it’s native, and it’s mostly everything I would like in a Twitter app. I will switch accounts, run active searches, view conversations and try photos inside the app. The recent Twitter does the vast majority of that just in addition as Tweetie-except account switching-and it has features the deprecated Tweetie doesn’t, like native-style retweets and geolocation. The most recent Twitter hasn’t replaced Tweetie, because Tweetie’s always right there on my desktop, but for the first time, it appears like a legit alternative. I don’t feel limited after I go to Twitter.com anymore.

The those that will feel limited? Power users who run apps like TweetDeck that soak up a whole second monitor, with a gaggle of accounts and searches running across ten columns of knowledge constantly flowing down their screen like code from the Matrix. Or crazy rich those who use an iPad as a second monitor just for Twitter. New Twitter just doesn’t provide that type of firepower, because it’s not meant to.

But for most traditional people, possible probably stop in search of the easiest Twitter app, while you’ve been searching for something relatively simple but powerful. It’s at Twitter.com.

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