Native retweets in Twittelator Neue

During the weekend, I tried out a new Twitter client (yes another one), Twittelator Neue. I really love the overall look and feel of it: the typeface, the subtly textured background, the image previews, the parallax effect, Tweet Marker support. It’s such a joy to use until you see a native retweet in the timeline. It pretty much ruins the experience for me.

The way they are displayed is very confusing. It’s almost impossible for you to know who the retweeter is. Unless you’re into memorizing all the avatars of the people you follow and can discern what their avatars look like when it’s small and almost a quarter of it covered by another avatar (that you probably can’t recognize). Disregarding the avatars and just reading the text, you might even think the author is retweeting him/herself.

Compare it to how a native retweet is displayed in two other Twitter apps on the iPhone:

Tweetbot for iPhone:

Twitter for iPhone:

On both apps, with just a quick glance you’ll be able to know it is a retweet and who retweeted that specific tweet.