An interview with Tweetie creator Loren Brichter | Macworld

To be clear, I’m not against the notion of grouping, I just think it’s a hack to do it client side. It’s possible (and common) for someone who is following lots of people to find gaps in the timeline of subgroups. Having said that, my initial feeling towards groups came from the perspective of a developer of a mobile application. Mobile apps by definition are run in brief spurts. This makes proper grouping next to impossible. Desktop apps are a different story - because they are running all the time, and can constantly poll your Twitter stream there is a much smaller likelihood of gaps. All I can say right now is that I’m flexible. I would like to take the time to point out (yet again) that there is a really amazingly robust solution to groups where the work is done server side and there won’t be any gaps in your stream. Plus you can use it in Tweetie for Mac and Tweetie for iPhone today in a really graceful manner. It’s called multiple accounts. The idea is to create another “read only” account where you follow some subset of people. You use that account only for reading, whenever you tweet you can always switch to a different account for posting (Tweetie on both platforms makes this ridiculously easy to do).

Agreed x 1000.