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best twitter app?

Best Twitter app? Probably Tweetie 2 for most people.

I really like Birdfeed as well. But the developer has been really tied up with Square (the credit card processing device for the iphone) and Birdfeed hasn't received updates as quickly as I'd like. Still missing landscape, takes a few too many touches to reply, etc. But overall it is the best looking Twitter app in my opinion. Just needs some fine tuning to reduce the touches required to perform tasks.

Also. Birdfeed's Geolocation feature blows Tweetie 2 out of the water in my opinion. I love that it shows nearby street names. Just seems to be a better way of doing it.

Tweetie 2 is a great app but it's starting to feel like there's way too much going on in it. Features are buried in there and it makes finding them harder. The lists feature is poorly implemented. Overall it's a nice app but it really could use some clean up in the interface.
 
bad angel said:
I have tried Twitterific (free version) and the paid versions of Tweetdeck, Tweetie 1, SimplyTweet, and Tweetsville. I've stuck with SimplyTweet because of the push notifications, its overall features list, and its stability. Tweetdeck was nice but I found it to crash a lot and I didn't like the fact that I couldn't load older tweets when I needed to catch up.

As has already been mentioned, there is a free version of SimplyTweet - I'd suggest you try this one.
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Twitteriffic's been rock solid for me, but I'll most likely switch to Tweetie 2 when themes are introduced in the next update. I haven't tries SimplyTweet, but I'll give it a whirl. Thanks
 
Echofon.

I hate Tweetie. It may be pretty, but its not functional. It doesn't have push notifications, and it doesn't highlight unread tweets. It also doesnt have many of the features that made Tweetie 1 so popular.
 
Eminemdrdre00 said:
Echofon.

I hate Tweetie. It may be pretty, but its not functional. It doesn't have push notifications, and it doesn't highlight unread tweets. It also doesnt have many of the features that made Tweetie 1 so popular.
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Push (if you want it) w/ Boxcar.

Unread tweets, it doesn't highlight them because it doesn't have to. Its incorporation of persistence (which, I think is the only Twitter app to really take advantage of it) means that no matter where you go in the app (or whether you leave the app altogether), when you return to the timeline, you are returned to exactly where you left off....so highlighting "unread" tweets is unnecessary. This is an infinitely better and more polished system than highlighting. That's kinda the story all over the app, though -- it does basically the same thing the others do except in a more functional, polished fashion (think iPhone vs. BB).

--Mav
 
IronLogik said:
The lists feature is poorly implemented. Overall it's a nice app but it really could use some clean up in the interface.
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Agreed. I expect this to be dramatically improved in the next release though. Remember, the last update wasn't even supposed to include support for Lists in light of the timing of when Lists when live and when the last update was released. The developer even basically said that he was crunched for time, but threw it in essentially as a beta at the last second.

--Mav
 
I am a Twittelator Pro fan with regards to iPhone twitter apps. I have tried each and every one of the apps mentioned above and I think this one is the best.
 
Maverickster said:
Push (if you want it) w/ Boxcar.

Unread tweets, it doesn't highlight them because it doesn't have to. Its incorporation of persistence (which, I think is the only Twitter app to really take advantage of it) means that no matter where you go in the app (or whether you leave the app altogether), when you return to the timeline, you are returned to exactly where you left off....so highlighting "unread" tweets is unnecessary. This is an infinitely better and more polished system than highlighting. That's kinda the story all over the app, though -- it does basically the same thing the others do except in a more functional, polished fashion (think iPhone vs. BB).

--Mav
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Boxcar is useless to me because I'd rather see a badge notification (on my Twitter app) than an alert notification.

I know it remembers where I left off, but what if I read through some new tweets, go back to read a link, then want to scroll back up? I might forget where I left off. I prefer hightlighting. Echofon has angered many of its users by making its highlighting of new tweets very subtle in the latest version. Even still, I'd take Echofon's new subtle approach over no highlighting at all. The only thing I like about Tweetie is the refresh method. I could sit there refreshing all day!
 
Ive used a few, but after the updates I'd say Tweetie 2 is the best app.

I used Echofon for a while...but prefer the layout of Tweetie tbh
 
I just came back to iPhone from Blackberry and am looking for a specific feature in a twitter client. I don't get mentions or DM's very much for push but with the Blackberry twitter apps I could always see how many new tweets I had with a notifications. Is there a twitter app that can display the number of new tweets via a badge on the home screen icon?
 
rmead001 said:
I just came back to iPhone from Blackberry and am looking for a specific feature in a twitter client. I don't get mentions or DM's very much for push but with the Blackberry twitter apps I could always see how many new tweets I had with a notifications. Is there a twitter app that can display the number of new tweets via a badge on the home screen icon?
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I think SimplyTweet can do this, but don't quote me on it.
 
There are many twitter apps but none of them are perfect.

I like twitbird for push and interface but i hate the fact i have to manually make it jump to 1st unread tweet everytime. It needs more themes and badge support.

Echofon is good minus the highlight issue from last update. It has push and badge display for unread tweets BUT does not have the option for twitlonger. Yes. sometimes i cant contain myself to 140. I could actually be happy with echofon if it would just support twitlonger.

I've been using tweetie2 a bit and i do like it but the loading of new tweets is not very clear. Needs to bring back theme options

Twitterriffic is ok but lacks a lot more resent options and no landscape.


I find myself bouncing bewteen a few of them .

PLease someone fix them!
 
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