Nighthawk for Twitter

Hawks can’t fly at night.

$5.99 | N/A

Twitter is important, but not very good, and is at least partly responsible for the terrible shape of the world. Nighthawk poses an important question – what if Twitter was, for some reason, worse?

Nighthawk’s big thing is that it allows you to filter out certain topics, but, weirdly, the list of filters is extremely short and specific right now. Is it worth paying $5.99 for a version of Twitter that does not let you track threads or add images to your tweets if, in exchange, you can disable all mentions of US politics, Star Wars spoilers, and, uh, jokes about doctors being on planes? Is it comforting knowing that you can cut out all retweets from your feed, but also won’t be able to access your DMs? Nighthawk for Twitter is an extremely limited app, one that charges you $6 for a less convenient experience. You can also add a ‘Close Friends’ feed, which is theoretically a nice idea – but then,that’s what Twitter’s in-built “list” function is for. There’s no benefit to using Nighthawk for your tweeting.