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score 193 · Answer 1

Birdie

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No longer maintained

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Simple

The app has just 5 tabs - home, replies, direct messages, profile and search. That's it. See More

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Limited configuration options

The tradeoff to Birdie's simplicity is that if you don't like something about how it presents the information, you most likely won't be able to change it. See More

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Good looking interface

Birdie has paid attention to details - cohesive icons, functional typography, color scheme that's easy on the eyes, layout and letter spacing that makes reading the feed comfortable, etc. See More

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Elementary OS focussed, might not work properly on other distros

The dev has decided to continue development based on Elementary OS APIs, entirely dropping support for other ditros. https://www.birdieapp.eu/building-our-future-on-elementary-os/ See More

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No built-in spell checker

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Lacks a built-in URL shortener

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score 14 · Answer 2

oysttyer

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automation

since it is a command-line tool, it can be used for automation. This is great! See More

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No GUI

oysttyer is a command-line only tool. See More

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Filters promoted tweets

Promoted tweets are not included in the feed. See More

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Doesn't support Unicode

Tweets in scripts other than Latin appear encoded; unreadable. See More

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Out of date

More than two years since the last code commit, this app will fail when Twitter changes their API. See More

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score 10 · Answer 3

Polly

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Out of date

More than two years since the last code commit, this app will fail when Twitter changes their API. See More

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Notifications include details

Most clients use notifications only to inform you of the fact that there's a new item that needs your attention, but Polly also includes the item in the notification, allowing you to decide with a glance at the notification if you wish to take action. See More

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Can't view full-sized images in within the app

While the app can show previews inline, to show full images, they are opened in a browser instead of being opened within the application. See More

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score 39 · Answer 4

corebird

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Unpleasant UI

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Best UI of all Twitter clients

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No live update

No live updates anymore. You have to close and reopen the program to see new tweets. See More

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Plays movies and shows images in-line with the tweet(s)

Even movie types that chrome-based browsers on Linux do not play are shown. Images of retweeted or liked tweets are shown in-line too. See More

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Borderline outdated

According to the installation: Warning: runtime/org.baedert.corebird.Locale/x86_64/stable is end-of-life, with reason: Vital Twitter API endpoints have been retired and as a consequence, Corebird is unmaintained and will not work in the future. See More

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No ability to change the tiny font that it uses

Absolutely no ability to customize UI. Completely unusable on high DPI displays. See More

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Not for infinite scrolling

After showing a limited number of posts, the infinite scrolling no longer works with an "too many requests" error. See More

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score 12 · Answer 5

Turpial

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Out of date

More than two years since the last code commit, this app will fail when Twitter changes their API. See More

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Highly configurable

Turpial offers a plethora of confugration options. Within settings you can customize notifications, services, what happens on startup, how filters behave, the integration with the web browser, how to set up an API proxy, etc. And all of those categories of options go into great detail. For example, you can set the refreshrate on a per-column basis. See More

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Can't display inline images

Images are embedded. See More

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