Jan Zdarsa I liked the social network Twitter and I like to read posts every day from different people or periodicals that I follow. I often learn something interesting like this. For some sites, I prefer to use Twitter rather than a classic RSS reader. But there are so many Twitter clients for iPhone on the Appstore, so which one to choose?
Twitterrific
My favorite until recently. Twitterrific looks perfect and it handles great. It won me over thanks to its clean user-friendly environment. But his more limited functionality she was starting to bother me. Sometimes, however, assigning the avatar to the right user went crazy and I found it slow. In addition, this client cannot send direct messages. Its free version comes with ads and the ad-free version is damn expensive ($9.99).
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Twinkle
I liked this client at first glance, but when I started using it, it was a no-win. First, you need to create an account in their Tapulous network. Second, the display of the closest users does not take place via Twitter, but displays the closest users of Twinkle, so it will not offer you many of them. And thirdly, with this client, scrolling is perhaps the slowest of the four. Although Twinkle looks good at first glance, it does not compare to the others tested.
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Twitterphone
Choosing a Twitter client for the iPhone that is free, this time I would go for Twitterfon. This client it offers everything the average user needs. It displays all messages since the last refresh, it can especially display @reply messages, send direct messages and can even search Twitter, display nearby users and also tell you current trends in Twitter (the most frequently occurring words). It's hard to believe that you get all this for free and without ads. Moreover, this client is i perfectly fast unlike, for example, Twitterrific.
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Tweetie
The only paid client in this article, but I quickly grew to like it. It's as feature-packed as Twitterfon, for example, but I find this app to be a little more nimble than the free downloadable Twitterfon. The creator focused on functions and speed, which is great. In addition to the functions that Twitterfon also includes, it also offers other perfect functions such as saving searches or a built-in twitpic photo viewer. Although a few things bother me about this client (for example, I don't like the appearance of tweets or not displaying tweets since the last read), but the author is hard at work on new versions, in which it promises a lot of new features and improvements. I can certainly recommend it warmly despite the price of $2.99.
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Competition question - COMPETITION CLOSED
I tried to mention at least four with which I have the most experience. However, there are a lot of Twitter clients on the Appstore and it is not in my power to test them all properly.
That's why I would ask you to leaving a comment under the article, if you use a Twitter client, or why or what bothers you. If you don't use one, it doesn't matter, just write here that you want to compete and that's it.
And what can you win?
Tweetie – in my opinion the best Twitter client today
Airsharing – thanks to this program, you will be able to save files to your iPhone via Wi-Fi.
Cronk – help save Cronk's village from destruction. A game based on a similar concept to the very popular Zuma game.
The contest ended on Friday, January 2, 1 at 2009:23 p.m
I'm currently using Twitterrific (with ads), the only thing bothering me is the absence of direct messages, I read this article with joy and interest, because I was already wondering if I might change the client by chance. I also use Twitterrific (also with ads) on my computer, but I think it's probably the best solution in this case. I think I'll try Twitterfon soon, and if it's not to my liking, then Tweetie.
And where is the best Twitter app? TweetsVille -> I don't know better, I've tried them all and tweetsville is the fastest and most convenient. :)
After twinkl and twitterific, I settled on twitterphone. But I'll take a look at the paid ones mentioned in the reviews.
twitterfon only > beautiful background, great functionality, the only thing that bothers me is the inability to download more than I think 100 posts and after 1 viewing most of them disappear and are not even stored.
Which reminds me that I should write some reports to the developers.
I don't really care about Airsharing, because I already have it for free.
I don't use Twitter much on the iPhone, but when I do I use Twitterrific - the first app that caught my eye after typing the word twitter into the iTunes Store.
Well, I admit that I only found out about something like twitter here. At least I'll broaden my horizons. In fact - I've never used RSS feeds either. I feel a bit behind now.
I have used Twitterrific for a long time. What I liked about it was that it automatically set itself to the last twit read on startup. But after trying Twitterphone, I preferred the speed.
So I have to admit that I'm hearing about Twitter for the first time, but I'm going to fix it. I will immediately try to install one of the applications described here and see what it actually is. Yes, yes, one should always learn...
Twitterrific is decent and can click two links in a post. But it's slow and doesn't have a single person feed list.
Twitterfon is fast, it can display one person's stream, but it can't open two links in a post.
Unfortunately, I don't know Tweetie. If he could click more links, I'd buy it.