This post inspired by Why I’m switching from Twitterrific to Tweetie.

I like some parts of Tweetie. The parts I don’t like far outweigh the parts I do. I don’t like that, while you can indeed use selecting a tweet to dim it (akin to marking it as read in Twitterrific), it automatically selects the top tweet when updating, marking unread tweets as read. I don’t like that the write new tweet box HAS to be in a separate window. I don’t like that you can’t hit the right arrow button and open the link in the tweet you’re viewing. I don’t like that if you mark a tweet as read, and it’s a mention, it’s not also marked as read in the mentions window. A tweet that’s read should be read universally.

I like that there’s multiple account access, even though that’s horribly broken. I like the URL shortener, even though it’s sometimes a URL lengthener.

Most of all, though, I don’t like that it has a menubar item you can’t turn on or off, and likewise cannot be reduced to ONLY a menubar item like Twitterrific can be.

I’m probably going back to Twitterrific soon, but I might keep using Tweetie for my secondary accounts.