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Life & fun · October 1, 2015

Tweetbot 4

The Twitter app w/ personality, reimagined for iOS 9 & iPad

Tweetbot 4 launched on October 1, 2015 with 320 votes, #43 of 4,175 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

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In plain words

Tweetbot 4 was an award-winning Twitter client for iOS and iPad that offered a full-featured experience with lists, direct messages, a stats view, and night theme. Designed for users who wanted a more personalized way to access Twitter, it provided an alternative to the official app with distinctive personality and functionality. The app was shut down in January 2023 when Twitter suspended access to third-party clients.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Tweetbot also has all the features you’d expect in a full-featured Twitter client like lists and direct messages, and others you wouldn’t like the new stats view, a night theme for low-light reading, and much more.

An award-winning Twitter Client for iOS.

On January 12th, 2023, without warning, Elon Musk ordered his employees at Twitter to suspend access to 3rd party clients which instantly locked out hundreds of thousands of users from accessing Twitter from their favorite clients. We’ve invested over 10 years building Tweetbot for Twitter and it was shut down in a blink of an eye. We are very sorry to all of our customers who chose Tweetbot as their way to interact with Twitter’s service and we thank you so much for the many years of support and feedback. While it is time for us to lay it to rest, a new bot will rise in its place and be greater than Tweetbot ever was. Built on an open and free platform, we are proud to introduce Ivory for…from tapbots.com

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