Nighthawk for Twitter

A powerful and personal companion to Twitter 🐣

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Nighthawk is a new kind of Twitter app designed to pick up where the default options have let you down. We're focused on solving problems we all face on social media, like overwhelming news feeds and difficulty just hearing from the friends you care about.
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Sam Henri Gold
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Over the last few months, @nathanblawrence and I have built Nighthawk, a companion to Twitter’s own app that (right now) fixes two big pain points that Twitter either doesn’t want to or can’t fix right now. First, you can’t filter out full topics — only individual words — which we found to be pretty stupid. We’ve built a small but growing catalogue of Smart Filters that we automatically update and do way more than just muting certain words by trying to detect the actual topic being used. Right now, we’re working on writing filters for political tweets, spoilers for TV shows and movies, and memes we find godawful. Remember that "is there a doctor on board" meme? Christ that was awful. Second, your friends. Nathan follows thousands of people for some reason and I follow a little over 300, which is still way too many to find the tweet from people I actually care about. As a result, we’ve noticed a lot of people use their notifications as a second timeline — which defeats the whole purpose of the app. So we’ve moved that into its own view — just your friends and what they have to say. No retweets and no funny business. Unless you're friends with a bunch of comedians, in which case it's exclusively funny business. It's not feature-complete, but we're extremely happy with the 1.0 we're putting out in the world.
Reony T
Wireframe Components Kit
You know someone's gotta say it, but no Android? ☹️
Nathan Lawrence
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@megaroeny Not at this time! We're pretty fanatical about not spreading Twitter credentials or personal data to cloud services at this point, and that means all the processing that makes our features work has to happen on-device, which we're using a lot of native APIs like Core Data and Core ML for.
Reony T
Wireframe Components Kit
@nathanblawrence got it! Understood. As much as I love my Pixel 3, I'm probably going to switch back to iOS after this phone. The 11 Pro is killer, and I really am liking iOS and all the nice UI/UX features lately.
Christopher Carr
@megaroeny @nathanblawrence This is more PH's problem, but I wish I could absolutely not get notifications about Apple-only stuff. Y'all might, though, PROMINENTLY mention up front that this is confined to iOS, so that I can quickly ignore it -- like: "Nighthawk for Twitter (iOS only)" Or: "Nighthawk is a new kind of iOS Twitter app designed to ..." This is a frequent annoyance on PH -- that is, there is seemingly an assumption that everyone uses iStuff.
Nathan Lawrence
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Maker
I'm really excited that we finally get to open this up to everyone on the App Store. We've also got an important update — 2019.0.1 — in the App Review pipeline right now; it smooths out a lot of the rough spots and overall just makes the app that much better. Let us know if you have any thoughts or questions!
Tom Stern
The Spoke
Like the product but @nathanblawrence when i type in names to close friends only some are being recognized.
Nathan Lawrence
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@bullstern Hi, Tom! Twitter doesn’t actually give us access to a list of everyone you follow, at least not quickly enough that we can have it ready for you right away, so we do have to work around that, and it sounds like you’ve come up against it. We take data from your timeline as we fetch it, as well as trying to search out users in Twitter's API when nobody matches, but so many people are using the app for the first time right now that twitter may have temporarily restricted our ability to perform those searches. The easiest way for you to add these people will be to go back to this tab after you’ve seen one of their tweets and try again — or you can edit from the private Twitter list online, which syncs its members with Nighthawk about once every day or so (at iOS’s discretion), or when you sign in to the app for the first time. We've gotten feedback from a couple people that this can be irksome, so I'm looking into more solutions, especially ones that don't run up against some of these API limits. I‘m sorry you ran up against this issue. Thanks for bearing with us as we put these new ideas out there.
Pierrick
Why is this app only available on iOS 13? Can't use it on my old iPhone 5S. ':(
Peter Böttges
The smart filters idea sounds amazing! It would be innovative if the content aware filter, would also recognize what is shown on images someone posts. Let's say I follow someone, who regularly posts about a hobby of theirs, which I have zero connection with. With currently available Twitter clients there is no way of filtering those posts out. In addition it would be great, if the client scans who I follow and recognizes connections. Let's say I follow your personal Twitter accounts and the @NighthawkApp account. If you retweet posts from your new app's account it is pure redundancy. Tweetbot and Twitterific both require tediously set up filter rules or muffles/mutes. I would be very fine with the client occasionally asking me with a simple (Tinder style) yes/no question, if it will train the model on which the algorithm decides what to show and what to block. Another leap would be to link and also scan other (social) media platform's accounts. A lot of people sadly still mirror their Instagram posts to Twitter or promote their new blog posts or YouTube videos on Twitter. If I am subscribed to their Instagram/YouTube account and follow their RSS feed (via Feedly for example) I have no real need for those redundant tweets. Sure this is an easy task, if they have linked up the accounts so that the social media app automatically posts to Twitter so that the client the tweet originated will be YouTube, Instagram or WordPress etc., but a lot of people will post those manually to be able to edit the Tweet's content. Those will slip through the filters of Twitterific/Tweetbot. Another huge issue, which can be tackled with AI is to differentiate between automatically generated tweets (reposts of tweets for already existing content) and original content that the user both schedules using Buffer or other social media scheduling services. Sometimes it is good and relevant content that gets filtered out, if you blindly block an entire client for a user. Would love to hear your thoughts. Cheers