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Add to SafariWhen comparing Feedbin vs Twitter (Official), the Slant community recommends Feedbin for most people. In the question“What are the best news readers?” Feedbin is ranked 5th while Twitter (Official) is ranked 40th. The most important reason people chose Feedbin is:
Uncluttered and intuitive to use.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Clean UI
Uncluttered and intuitive to use.
Pro Free and open source
Licensed under MIT. Code available on GitHub.
Pro Full API
Feedbin has a fully-featured, free, REST-style API.
Pro Supports JSON Feed
JSON Feed is a new syndication format that uses JSON instead of XML to store its data. JSON is generally considered easier to read and write than XML, making for less error-prone data structuring and broken feeds.
Pro Classy interface
The web interface is nice, and the apps give a great native experience regardless of what platform you're on.
Pro Paid
This won't disappear in a year or two if ad revenue falls off.
Pro Privacy, hides user details from pulled content
Pro Integrates Twitter posts
Pro Gets the latest API updates
Twitter is slightly infamous for making changes to the API. At least with the official client, you stay ahead of this.
Pro Clean & Functional UI design
Pro Officially sponsored
So you know it will always be supported and won't be randomly shut down.
Pro App experience similar to web experience
If you're switching from using the web client, this app will be quickly understandable to you.
Pro Inline photos
Pro Multiple account support
Allows easy switching of accounts withing the app.
Pro Supports login verification
The official Twitter app is perhaps the only app to support two factor authentication or login verification, thus providing a necessary additional layer of security to your Twitter accounts
Pro Photo editing tools
The app has filters, automatic level balancing and ability to crop built in the app.
Cons
Con No Team Integration
No ability to share information with others within the native app.
Con There is no free plan
One of the few news readers that does not offer a free plan. They have a 14 day trial, after that a subscription is $3/month.
Con Forced inside Twitter's annoying ecosystem
Con "In case you missed" feature, showing tweets other users liked in your timeline
Features (can't be turned off) that disrupt chronological timeline and/or show sames tweets repeatedly.
Con Promoted tweets
AKA ads.
Con Too many permissions
Asking a lot more permissions than most third party apps.
Con No widget
Recently took away the widget for whatever reason and that's not cool.
Con Pretty heavy
If you're on a "available-space" budget, the official twitter app is pretty bulky and you'll be better-off with a more lightweight alternative.
Con Lack of ability to view tweets in a proper timeline
Con Terrible cellular data management
If you have a limited data plan for your phone, don't be surprised if you find a whopping 800 MB consumption at the end of the month. The app really, really wants to download absolutely everything, even if you don't want to see or play anything.
