Tweetie for Mac is certainly one of the best Twitter applications available, however it is lacking in one area: hiding the dock icon. Tweetie uses a Dock and menubar icon which is abnormal for many applications, usually they just use one or the other. Fear not, hiding the Dock icon and keeping the menubar icon is just a few quick steps away.

  1. Quit Tweetie if you have it running
  2. Go to your Applications folder using Finder
  3. Right click on the Tweetie application and select “Show Package Contents”
  4. Double click the Contents folder to go into it
  5. Double click on the Info.plist file to open it in TextEdit
  6. Under the <dict> tag add the following lines:
    <key>LSUIElement</key>
    <string>1</string>
  7. Save, quit TextEdit, launch Tweetie again, and enjoy!

Here is a sample of what the top of your Info.plist file should look like with the edited lines:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>LSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>
<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
<string>English</string>

Some common issues:

Q: Oh no, I can’t authenticate and my tweets aren’t showing up anymore?!
A: Fear not, open tweetie up, Press “Command + ,” to open preferences, navigate to Accounts, remove your user account and add it again. Problem solved. Strange bug, I know.

Q: Um… the Menubar icon is gone as well as the dock icon!
A: Try replacing LSUIElement with NSUIElement in your info.plist file.

Q: But something else went wrong…
A: Hit me up on twitter then @uberamd and I will help you.