Tweetbot's iOS gestures also make the leap to the Mac. Sure, you can double-click a tweet (or press the right-arrow key when the tweet is selected) to view the conversation surrounding that message, but if you're using a trackpad, you can instead use a two-finger swipe to the right, directly over the tweet, to access the same view. It feels just right.

As on the iPad, Tweetbot on the Mac uses a left-hand navigation bar to offer quick access to your mentions, direct messages, favorites, search, profile, lists, retweets, and mute settings. Similarly, if you have multiple accounts configured, a tap on your current account's avatar shows you a list of all accounts; tap one to switch to it.

You can configure all sorts of settings, including which events you'd like notifications for (complete with Notification Center integration), which read-it-later service to use, your link shortener of choice, your preferred photo- and video-upload services, and--perhaps best of all--your preferred timeline-syncing service. I've long relied on the excellent service to keep my place between Twitter apps and devices, and Tweetbot supports Tweet Marker. But now that I'm using Tweetbot on all my devices, I'm using--and enjoying--its iCloud integration instead, mainly because its iCloud syncing tracks not just my current reading position in the main timeline, but also the read/unread status of my direct messages, where I left off in my mentions timeline, and even my mute settings. It's great.

When composing a message, you can click your own avatar to choose to send the message from another of your Twitter accounts instead. Other composing niceties include the capability to attach images, to add your location, and to save unfinished posts as drafts.

There are a few ways in which Tweetbot for Mac differs from the iOS versions, and those just so happen to be the few areas where I feel the Mac version suffers: multiple windows and multiple-account management.