Macaw for Twitter - A free iOS app with the top-liked tweets from your network

Props to Zach for a creative take on Twitter consumption in 2018. Finding that I open this app first for a quick dive through tweets as opposed to the client. It's just a refreshing and thoughtful remix on how to find interesting and niche activity.

Hi everyone! Thanks for reading / voting. Wanted to give some insight into why I built this and why you might find it useful. With 2000+ users now signed up to use Daily140 (https://www.producthunt.com/post...), one common suggestion was to build an experience that works with your existing overall Twitter network instead of individual users. Twitter now occasionally inserts activity-based tweets into your timeline (e.g. if you follow me, you’ll see “Zach liked this tweet” or “Zach followed this user”). If 5 of the people who you follow like a particular tweet, chances are good that you should read that tweet. Same with users: if a lot of the people you follow suddenly start following a user, chances are good you might want to follow them too. Twitter does this on and off today, but only if you have the algorithmic feed on. And if you want to turn that off (or hack it like https://twitter.com/waxpancake/s...), you’ll get only 1 or 2 of those suggestions each day. So I built an app where the whole premise is these suggestions. Why download it? 1. It ends up being a decent summary of Twitter at the end of the day. I don’t need to check Twitter as frequently, and I still get the best content 2. You’ll get a more diverse cross-section of tweets and users. You may not care about some of it, but you’ll definitely discover at least one tweet you wouldn’t have seen otherwise (because you don’t follow that user) or a new user you wouldn’t have known about 3. It’s free and fun and an experiment, so why not? Thanks again, and all feedback welcome! 🙌🏽😁

No one thinks of and builds cool products on top of Twitter like this duo (ie see Daily One Forty). This is no exception.

I've been using Macaw as a beta tester for a few weeks now and I must day, it's changed how I consume Twitter for different perspective outside of my normal Timeline. what's neat about Macaw is that it helps to surface likes, recent follows or new trends (remember the old "Discover" section Twitter multiple versions ago?) that I wouldn't otherwise see. if you're a power Twitter user, this should sit in your dock. also, @zmh is *crazy* responsive on bugs or feature requests.

No android love 😭

I've been using the beta for a couple months. Macaw consistently surfaces interesting things that I would have otherwise missed. Faves and follows in certain cases are more valuable than what people tweet—It feels closer to a persons thinking and intent.

"I'm moving all 3,372 of our employees onto Russian bot prevention efforts. It's not worth building an official app when you have apps like Macaw." - Did Jack Dorsey really say that?

Twitter hasn’t done a great job of surfacing a lot of the magic and signals that exist right between the surface, Macaw brings that magic to the forefront for all.

Nice, this is really useful

Cool product. Looking forward to playing around with it. Curious what the story behind the name is?

Is there anyway to exclude users from this? Pretty much all that shows up for me are replies to @pixelatedboat tweets.

Updating my review now that the service is loading for me -- very cool premise! My only critique is that any user interactions toss you into your twitter app. Potentially out of scope for Macaw, but it'd be great if this was a full twitter client.

Pros:

great idea, nice aesthetic, easy to use

Cons:

any tweet interactions throw you over to your twitter app

Great tool. Twitter timelines suck 😞

Just curious - what purpose do fake testimonials serve? I get that it's a joke, but a bit cliche at this point.

Nice work Zach, any plans for a web version? I would probably find myself using a web version for something like this.

Great stuff, the only thing I seem to be missing right now (or am I overlooking something) is a dark mode, any plans for that? :-)

I like this idea, but the app simply does not work, and the design has issues too. Why does this have so many upvotes?

The design has some issues too. No idea why this would have so many upvotes. Seems borderline suspicious really.

Pros:

Good idea

Cons:

It doesn't work

Love the (fake) testimonials

Hi - hate to be a curmudgeon, but not much is happening for me (yet) with the iOS client or with the iPadOS client. It's been close to 15 minutes and each client is only presenting a blank screen. Surely, this cannot represent the use case for onboarding.