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Twitter apps: Tweetie, Twitterific Premium and Twinkle
Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla- 9/24/2009 9:30:00 AM
Twitter has become a social networking phenomenon with all sorts of people broadcasting
messages, despite the limitation of 140 characters or less. Regular folks, celebrities and sports
icons, as well as many of the most popular consumer brands have used Twitter effectively to
promote themselves as well as reach out to their fans and followers.
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Backup Your Tweets The iPhone has become the ultimate mobile Twitter device because you can check
Free Backup Service feeds on the go as well as post anytime the mood strikes. We look at Tweetie,
Twitterrific and Twinkle, three outstanding Twitter clients that are gaining popularity
For Tweets, Direct
on the iPhone, each of which brings a different spin on the micro-blogging
Messages, Friends,
experience of Twitter.
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Other iPhone Twitter clients may have
more bells and whistles and look a bit
more attractive, which may appeal to
some people but for those who want something fast and reliable, Tweetie is a solid choice. They also offer a
stellar desktop version for the Mac, which has free and paid (ad-free) versions.
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Twitterrific Premium ($3.99) Connect To The People, Places &
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Created by the user interface, wallpaper and icon-creating ninjas at Iconfactory, Twitterrific Premium is the www.BlackBerry.com/Curve8520
most visually engaging and entertaining Twitter client on the iPhone.
Taking roughly 12 seconds from power-on to loading tweets,
Twitterrific announces new messages with a chirping bird sound and
lets you know how many new tweets you have received.
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The only issue is it doesn't show you the most recent tweets but
continues where you might have left off hours earlier. Some users Direct Messages, Friends, Followers
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may appreciate this, but we want to see what's new right away without
having to scroll all the way up - it's one extra step that we don't
appreciate.
What we do appreciate are some of Twitterrific Premium's unique
features like the Twitter Timeline, which gives you a quick look at just-
posted tweets from all over the world, great for getting a pulse on
what is going on as well as a fast, intuitive and surprisingly effective
Translate function that takes tweets in different languages and parses
them to English quickly.
We've managed to translate from Japanese, Korean, Spanish and
German and were quite successful. This is one feature that may be
worth the $3.99 admission price for Twitterrific Premium but you get
this even on the free version.
We like the fact that this app has been re-worked to take advantage of
the iPhone 3GS to incorporate video as well as landscape browsing
support, which are thoughtful integrations into the app. Visually,
though, Twitterrific might be too busy for some users.
Twinkle Free
Twinkle will always have a
soft spot in the hearts of
intrepid iPhone Twitter
users. It was one of the first
Twitter apps that made it cool and easy to get on the Twitter
bandwagon with the iPhone or the iPod Touch.
Twinkle is free but also offers a paid version which is devoid of
advertising. We will focus on the free variant which has a lot of things
going for it starting with the Nearby search feature that cross-
references your cellular signal with the GPS to find nearby Tweets.
This is actually a helpful feature when one is attending a nearby
concert or event because people do post updates and their current
status.
Location awareness is an integral part of Twinkle, if you are visiting a
new place and want to get insights on what is going on around you
just drill down from proximity (1 to 100 miles) to get a pulse of what is
going on around you.
Twinkle also supports Facebook so social media mavens can multi-
task and check the status of their friends and connections across both
services on one interface. Twinkle isn't the fastest iPhone Twitter
client and takes about 25 seconds to update from the time you enable
the app, being one of the older applications it might need a code tune
up for iPhone OS 3.1.
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