Nighthawk for Twitter
Tidy up your Twitter timeline
£3.99 FROM Team Nighthawk, tweetnighthawk.com NEEDS iOS 13 or later
Nighthawk exists to make Twitter a bit more bearable and,
well, human. There’s a tab at the bottom of the app for ‘Close Friends’. Pick a handful of your best buds and this tab will be populated with their tweets and nothing else, letting you focus on the people who matter.
Nighthawk also comes with several options to cut down on unwelcome content. Whether that’s movie spoilers, foreign politics or customer care queries, Nighthawk does an admirable job. You can even ban retweets to let you see original content only.
The app has its limitations, some of which are quite jarring. There’s no way to search for accounts, so you can’t follow anyone who you didn’t already follow when you first loaded the app, or even view their tweets. You also can’t switch accounts on the fly, making the app very restrictive if you manage more than one Twitter page.
And while you can send new tweets (and have the app check them for typos and ‘spicy’ content), you can’t add images, videos or other content – it’s strictly a text-only affair. While the developer says these features are coming soon, the app in its current state is sorely missing them.