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After raising upwards of $100,000 via a Kickstarter campaign<\/a> earlier this year, the team at Iconfactory has brought back one of the more popular third-party Twitter clients, Twitterrific for Mac<\/a>. Effectively abandoned years ago when Iconfactory shifted its focus to mobile, the Kickstarter was meant to establish demand for a Mac app ahead of devoting developer resources to building it.<\/p>\n Today, Twitterrific 5 for Mac<\/a> has gone live, and includes a number of features like a dark mode, themes, support for multiple timelines and accounts, syncing with its iOS counterpart, customizable fonts and type sizes, and more.<\/p>\n The client has also been built with macOS integrations in mind, including support for Notification Center, Retina displays, built-in sharing, full screen mode, and other features.<\/p>\n Longtime Twitter users will remember there was once a time when the landscape was rife with third-party Twitter clients, including\u00a0Twitterrific, Tweetbot, and many more. But shortly after Twitter snapped up Tweetie in 2010<\/a>\u00a0to form the basis of its own mobile app, it overhauled its API Terms of Service in 2011<\/a>, effectively telling developers to stop building their own third-party Twitter apps.<\/p>\n Twitter then picked up TweetDeck for $40 million<\/a>\u00a0to save it from being acquired by UberMedia. But the app hasn\u2019t received as much attention in recent months,<\/a>\u00a0as Twitter is focused more on mobile and web than it is on desktop.<\/p>\n The Twitterrific Mac app was first released a decade ago, but stopped being updated in 2013 as the team followed the money to mobile.<\/p>\n There\u2019s still a small, but devoted crowd interested in a Twitterrific Mac app, however, as the Kickstarter proved.<\/p>\n But at double the price of a rival third-party client for Mac, Tweetbot, Iconfactory has priced its software to appeal to a niche audience whose fondness for\u00a0Twitterrific hadn\u2019t faded over the years. (Its new app is $19.99 compared with just $9.99 for Tweetbot.)<\/p>\n It also makes it easier to follow chained tweets and \u201ctweet storms,\u201d while adding in-demand features Twitter itself doesn\u2019t have, like the ability to edit your tweets, for example. (To be clear, Twitter doesn\u2019t allow for tweet editing natively, so\u00a0Twitterrific\u2019s implementation is a workaround \u2013 it deletes the tweet you need to correct with the new one you\u2019ve edited. Still, it\u2019s handy.)<\/p>\n Different types of tweets are color-coded in\u00a0Twitterrific as well, allowing you to quickly differentiate regular tweets from replies, DMs and your own updates.\u00a0 And the app is quite customizable, too, with support for things like light and dark themes, the ability to control font type and size, which windows you want to see, and what content you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n
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That said, the app delivers a good handful of features Mac users will like, beyond standard items like support for multiple panes, and access to Twitter\u2019s main features like mentions, DMs, favorites, retweets, quote tweets, trending topics, saved searches, lists, and more.<\/p>\n