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Tweetbot for Mac Updated With Support for macOS Sierra and Extended Tweets

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tweetbotFollowing the release of macOS Sierra moments ago, Tweetbot for Mac has been updated with support for the latest operating system. The update also includes support for extended tweets, uploading videos up to 140 seconds long to Twitter, and better media previews for search results.

In terms of extended tweets, Twitter no longer counts photos, videos, GIFs, polls, and quote tweets towards its 140-character limit. Previously, media content took up approximately 24 of the 140 available characters, and older versions of Tweetbot still enforce the 140 character limit accordingly.

Tweetbot for Mac version 2.4.2 is available now as a free update [Direct Link] for existing users on the Mac App Store. The app initially costs $9.99.

Tags: Tweetbot, Tweetbot for Mac
Related Forum: macOS Sierra

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S.B.G Avatar
S.B.G
130 months ago
Huh. The update to Sierra and Tweetbot sure made Tweetbot crash several times upon launch and then the icons are all messed up...

[doublepost=1474408004][/doublepost]If anyone gets the above issues I posted, run this in Terminal, as told to me ('https://twitter.com/tweetbot/status/778348608861110272') by Tweetbot. It seems to have cleared up my problems so far.
rm -rf ~/Library/Containers/com.tapbots.TweetbotMac/Data/Library/Caches

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hsouris
130 months ago
I still get the white space in tweets even after this update. Anyone else? Fix?
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
DavidNelsonNM Avatar
DavidNelsonNM
130 months ago
Huh. The update to Sierra and Tweetbot sure made Tweetbot crash several times upon launch and then the icons are all messed up...

[doublepost=1474408004][/doublepost]If anyone gets the above issues I posted, run this in Terminal, as told to me ('https://twitter.com/tweetbot/status/778348608861110272') by Tweetbot. It seems to have cleared up my problems so far.
rm -rf ~/Library/Containers/com.tapbots.TweetbotMac/Data/Library/Caches
Tweetbot was crashing on me within 5 seconds of running it, this command fixed it. Thanks!
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
lingaoyi Avatar
lingaoyi
130 months ago
Huh. The update to Sierra and Tweetbot sure made Tweetbot crash several times upon launch and then the icons are all messed up...

[doublepost=1474408004][/doublepost]If anyone gets the above issues I posted, run this in Terminal, as told to me ('https://twitter.com/tweetbot/status/778348608861110272') by Tweetbot. It seems to have cleared up my problems so far.
rm -rf ~/Library/Containers/com.tapbots.TweetbotMac/Data/Library/Caches
thx..........
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
4rtemidis Avatar
4rtemidis
130 months ago
Huh. The update to Sierra and Tweetbot sure made Tweetbot crash several times upon launch and then the icons are all messed up...

[doublepost=1474408004][/doublepost]If anyone gets the above issues I posted, run this in Terminal, as told to me ('https://twitter.com/tweetbot/status/778348608861110272') by Tweetbot. It seems to have cleared up my problems so far.
rm -rf ~/Library/Containers/com.tapbots.TweetbotMac/Data/Library/Caches
Had the same issue, the terminal command fixed it! Thanks!
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
zorinlynx Avatar
zorinlynx
130 months ago
It's nice of Twitter to immediately provide an API for the longer tweets for third-party clients.

They've sorta been jerks towards third-party client authors, denying them APIs for things like finding out who favorited tweets, polls, certain notifications, images in direct messages, and so on.

Thanks for at least this, Twitter. :P
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