Thursday, June 18, 2009

iPhone twitter apps

There are currently 4 apps battling for page 1 on my iPhone. Twitterrific, twitterfon, twinkle, and tweetdeck.

Twitterrific, sleek interface, multiple account support, lists trends, intelligently displays tweets and starts at the oldest tweet you haven't seen since last load.

Twitterfon, boring interface but it is fast and it also lists trends (this is important to me, I like to see what the hot topics are). It seems to be more stable than twitterrific and twinkle.

Twinkles interface somewhat annoys me but I love that it can list "tapulous" people, whatever that is.. People who use twinkle I guess, my twitter page, and facebook updates. It even allows you to read comments posted on the facebook status and leave your own comment. This guarantees a spot on my iPhone until competitors incorporate these features. Also, I enjoy checking out the nearby tab once and a while (although it rarely proves to be interesting).

Tweetdeck may have the best interface, very slick and it seems to have been developed by people who aren't pretending the iPhone doesn't lag every 10 seconds. It does, develop your apps to babysit this problem.
Hopefully the 3GS can load a webpage without smoke coming out of the earphone jack. Anyway tweetdeck... I'm not sure the safari style tabs are for me but it works well. Tweetdeck is a well rounded app, I'll keep it to play around with it more, although I have a feeling I may delete it in a month or so. It may replace twitterrific for me.

Now, which app deserves page 1? And which apps deserve to exist on my phone?

-- Post From My iPhone