A growing number of people involved in building user interfaces resort to customizability as a sure-fire way to empower users and give them more control over their workflows. After all, the heterogeneity of user expectations renders the challenge of designing universal interfaces unsurmountable, or so they say.

Does Tweetbot live up to the hype is has been garnering? Using a simplified quantitative approach, I tried to scrap the varnish to find out if is a worthy alternative to the official client.