New Twitter throwing you for a loop? Here are some clients that can help!
A few days ago, Twitter introduced its new desktop design that's supposed to be faster, easier to navigate, and more personalized. Among its goals were creating a more efficient platform and ensuring mobile users have access to the same breadth of features as desktop users. Tablet users, for example, will be able to use the same keyboard shortcuts as desktop users. But — although many people might like this new mobile-like interface for desktop — others might hate it. That's why we're presenting you some great https://alternativeto.net/software/twitter/ clients for mobile and desktop that you might like more.
Like this appTweetDeck makes it easier for publishers, marketers, and power users to track the real-time conversations they care about. It brings more flexibility and insight to power users through a customizable layout that lets you keep up with the people and topics that matter most to you. Among its many functionalities, TweetDeck allows you to have multiple timelines, to manage several accounts, to follow hashtags, to only see tweets from a certain location… If you want to customize TweetDeck even more, you can also use the
Better TweetDeck browser extension or use another app based on TweetDeck like 
TweetDuck, 
Tweetdeckr, or 
Tweeten.- Twitter Client
- Paid • Proprietary
- Online
- Google Chrome
Like this appTweetbot is a Twitter client for
macOS and 
iOS. Thanks to it, you can follow several threads at the same time, consult a timeline created from your lists, interact easily with your subscribers and subscriptions, or create tweets with photos or your geographical position.
Its simple and intuitive interface does not take regular features away with an almost identical operating mode and, as always, the possibility to rank your favorites, search for content, and consult the top tweets of your country.- Twitter Client
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
- Apple Watch
Like this appTwidere is a free and open-source Twitter client that offers many customization options. Background color, tweets layout, card size, tab management, notifications… Nearly everything can be adjusted, up to and including the cache size and the number of tweets loaded at each refresh. You can also manage multiple accounts, use a night mode, enable powerful mute filters, send direct messages, and much more.
- Twitter Client
- Free • Open Source
- Android
- Android Tablet
- F-Droid
Like this appTwitterrific is an extremely complete Twitter client, offering many options associated with keyboard shortcuts. It was one of the first Twitter clients for
macOS, but it has successfully been able to keep up against more recent Twitter apps in terms of features. Twitterrific allows you to post tweets, reply directly to messages, add photos or locations to your tweets, open links in a small integrated web browser, and more. An iOS version of the application is also available.- Twitter Client
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
- Apple Watch
Like this appPlume, formerly Touiteur, is a beautiful and completely customizable Twitter app. It allows you to manage multiple accounts, mute users, words, or applications, share Tweets on Facebook, preview pictures in your timeline, answer to direct messages, and much more. The app also has an internal web browser to view links easily. Plume is only available for
Android, so if you're an Apple user, you might want to use Tweetbot or Twitterrific instead.- Twitter Client
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Android
- Android Tablet
Like this appIf you're looking for a Twitter desktop application for your Linux operating system, especially a lightweight and simple program you can just leave running with very little drain on system resources, Birdie may be for you. While it may be very light and simple, it is also beautiful and designed very much to look and behave like elementary applications that you would see in
elementary OS or arguably even like the latest Gnome applications.- Twitter Client
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- elementary OS
Like this appEchofon is an easy to use, super-fast Twitter app for
iOS and Android.
It's easy to do common Twitter tasks such as viewing your timeline, messages, replies, lists and favorites. Echofon has a powerful tweet-authoring tool where you can write tweets, take photos, record video, and update your current location. The Echofon interface was carefully designed to be comfortably left open all day. It stays out of the way when necessary and expands to support all the advanced features you need when you need them.- Twitter Client
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Like this appChoqok (which means “sparrow” in ancient Persian) is a free and open-source Twitter client designed for
KDE Plasma that provides a wide range of features that will appeal to the most experienced users. It allows you to quickly publish a status message, update your profile, manage your favorites, send and receive private messages, manage your followers, and more.- Social Network
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- Flathub
- KDE
Like this appRainbow Stream is a free, open source, smart terminal based Twitter client released under the MIT License. It provides a real time tweet stream and allows you to compose, search, favorite, and much more directly from your Linux terminal. It is written in
Python and built on top of the Twitter API and Python Twitter Tool. To run this application in your console, you must have installed Python and pip version 2.7.x or 3.x.- Twitter Client
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Linux
Of course, this list is non-exhaustive and there are many other Twitter clients like https://alternativeto.net/software/talon-for-twitter/, https://alternativeto.net/software/fenix-for-twitter/, https://alternativeto.net/software/tweetcaster/, https://alternativeto.net/software/surfbird/, https://alternativeto.net/software/bridgeport/, etc. Feel free to comment if you've tried one of these Twitter clients or if you think an app is missing from this article. 🙂
why even use Twitter. It's no longer a platform and obviously biased and have no care about free speech. Another option to this dilemma is ditch Twitter for Parler, Minds, Gab, MeWe.
Many of the apps mentioned are exclusive to MacOs or Mobile. [Edited by artexjay, November 17]
If you don't want to use Twitter, you can also take a look at
Mastodon.
Reply written Jul 19, 2019