I was struggling to find a handy application that allowed me to tweet effectively on my sexy iPhone 3G S. After some intense research and experiments, I have come up with three of my favorite iPhone Twitter applications. This will save you hours of legwork. Send me some cookies if you insist!
This solid application has an gorgeous interface. It uses different color displays to distinguish the types of tweets. Twitteriffic, however, has far more than just good looks. It also supports multiple accounts, has auto refreshing and many more features that will make you fall straight in love with it. Currently I’m using Twitterific and it’s terrific!
TweetDeck is on iPhone! Like the TweetDeck you may already be using on your desktops, it also features column views, multiple accounts and group arrangments. Basically it’s just the mobile version of the desktop TweetDeck. The size shrinks but not its functionality.
To the best of my knowledge, Twinkle is the first Twitter client that offers geolocation (location-sensitive). Twinkle will publish your location along with your tweets and in turn you can view other places where tweets come from. So communicating with people near you becomes much easier!
All of three applications are solid. If you are still not ready to commit to one application even after reading this article, simply try them all out! While only one application can run at a time (please do not get me started, Apple), these Twitter applications happily co-exist on your iPhone. Have fun tweeting!
The table below summarizes the key criteria for the Big Three (maxiumu score is 5).
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Software |
Ease Of Use |
Functionality |
Multiple Accounts |
|
Twitterrific |
5 my favorite |
4
|
Yes |
|
TweetDeck |
4 user-friendly |
3 |
Yes |
|
Twinkle |
4 impressive for a new app |
5 Awesome for geolocation |
Yes |
Best Free Twitter Applications for Desktops
If you have been using Twitter for any amount of time, you probably have wondered whether there is a better tool to manage your tweets than the Twitter website. How about managing multiple Twitter accounts? Perhaps you find yourself constantly logging in and out of different accounts in the web browser.
There are easier ways to to manage all your tweets and accounts than using the regular Twitter website. You can easily achieve high efficiency with the help of a Twitter desktop application. Let’s examine three of the most popular Twitter desktop applications to help you determine which one would work best for you.
TweetDeck enables users to split their Twitter feed into columns, creating a clear and simple overview of tweets. With TweetDeck, users can also group their friends. Other features include multiple account management, favorites, and URL shortening. However, TweetDeck does not synch with versions on other computers, so it’s frustrating that users have to do all the settings again when they switch computers.
It does many of the same things that other client managers do, and it works very much like TweetDeck. But Seesmic makes photo sharing easier by allowing users to drag them into a small window. I currently use Seesmic as my primary Twitter application.
Users can view their archive tweets in Twhirl, a feature that TweetDeck doesn’t have. Twhirl is superior to TweetDeck in that it gives users more freedom in customizing colors and themes, which will come in handy when you have tons of tweets flooding in from different accounts.
The table below summarizes the key criteria for the Big Three (maxiumu score is 5).
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Software |
Ease Of Use |
Functionality |
Multiple Accounts |
|
TweetDeck |
3 clear and simple overview |
3 includes all Twitter features |
Yes |
|
Seesmic |
4 same with TweetDeck |
4 same with TweetDeck plus photo uploading |
Yes |
|
Twhirl |
4 same with TweetDeck |
4 customization and view archives |
Yes |
