Yay! Twitter for Mac doesn’t suck anymore

by Lauren Hockenson — in Twitter

Yay! Twitter for Mac doesn’t suck anymore

Twitter is making plenty of announcements today at Flight 2015, but dropped a little nugget for Mac fans.

Soon, Twitter for Mac won’t suck anymore!

Here be gadgets

Not here exactly, but on our new hardware site Plugged.

Here

Announced by Twitter’s Senior Director of Product Jeff Seibert, the app update didn’t get an exact roll-out date (Seibert promised later this year) but finally it seems Twitter will be usable on the desktop.

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Optimized for OS X El Capitan, the new Twitter will accommodate group DMs, GIFs, and integrations with Mac’s Notification Center. Visually, the app offers in-line replies as well as a snazzy dark mode.

Maybe now the company can become the best native Mac app running Twitter? We’ll see.

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