Buy Geek: 9 Twitter iPhone Apps Summarized

Posted by 5x5 on July 1, 2009 under Geek Talk | Read the First Comment

Many of you already have an iPhone app that is near and dear to your heart. Here is what’s out there that you might be missing.

Twiltr

Twiltr

Written by Brent Coursey (@coursey) of Kurzee Design.
It offers:

• simple, clean interface
• reply or retweet with a single tap
• friend filtering
• word filtering
• single account
• trends

I did find the font size is a bit small for my old eyes. For those of you that use filtering, it is on the main page right at your finger tips.

Already have an iPhone Twitter app you like? Brent and his buds have created a number of other products you might be interested in. iGrenade is exactly what you think it is, PastorTalk supplies you with handy one-liners and for the Aggie fans tired of screaming and yelling, Aggie Whoop will do it all for you with a shake of the wrist.

Twitterina

Twitterena

The Twitterena iPhone app was written by Andrew Weekes, a 25 year old music and computer programmer living in Birmingham, United Kingdom. You can follow him on Twitter at @aweekes.

Twitterena offers:

• various theme options
• text size settings
• left handed control option
• sound options, depending on when you want to hear the singing bird
• one click gets you tweet and ability to reply, dm, rt or view user’s recent tweets and profile

My only complaints about this application were the tweeting bird lost its cuteness fast and the theme made it visually difficult to read tweets. Since both of these have customizable settings, I was able to fix everything fast.

Andrew has a number of different iPhone applications. If you see something you like, download it through the App Store.

TwitterBox

TwitterBox

The only thing I could find on these guys is a Twitter account @twitt3rbox by Matt Maher.

It offers:

• top and bottom menus allowing you to access everything from the main screen in one click.
• ability to shrink your tweet
• text size settings
• retweet style settings
• pull mentions setting to find out what people are saying about you
• multiple users
• search and trending build in

This app has locked up my iPhone 3G a number of times when trying to use the boxes utility. Big frowny face. According to their blog, they have a number of fixes in the works. Hopefully, this is among them.

SimplyTweet

SimplyTweet

SimplyTweet is an app written by Hwee-Boon of Motion Obj in Singapore.

SimplyTweet offers:

• tweetshrink
• instapaper support
• multiple photo options (Posterous, TwitPic, yfrog)
• photo search by keywords
• built in tweet search
• trends
• save drafts
• multiple accounts
• notes
• saved views
• click icon to get user information and follow or unfollow
• single click tweet brings up page allowing you to click another icon and reply, RT, post link to the tweet or email link to tweet

You can check out their other iPhone apps, Big Deuce card game, Shake It Out decision maker and Quick Finger game in the iTunes store and follow them on twitter at @simplytweet and @hboon.

Twitterrific

Twitterrific

Twitterrific is one of the fine products created by iconfactory, located in Greensboro, NC. They have a ton of freeware and software geared for iPhones and Mac OSX. Please check them out yourself, since including them all would add an additional ten pages to the blog post.

Twitterrific offers:

• public timeline
• multiple accounts
• ability to quick search or search nearby
• trends
• mark tweets
• view tweets you sent
• Shrink tweets
• single click icon to get full information on user, follow, unfollow, block or make notes on user
• double click urls to load browser view of link
• double click tweet to see complete conversation, reply or dm.
• font size customization

It took me a little time to get use to the unique icons applied to a few features, but other than that, this application rocks.

Tweetie

Tweetie

Tweetie is an Mac OSX and iPhone application. You may have heard of Bigbird, the current OSX version’s code name. It is designed by AteBits located in Berkeley, CA.

Tweetie for the iPhone offers:

• multiple accounts
• theme options
• font size options
• Instapaper integration
• Choice of image service (yFrog, TwitPic, Mobypicture)
• trends
• search
• nearby
• single click tweet to get options to RT, post link to tweet, mail link, repost link, Instapaper, reply
• single click icon from tweet page to get follow, unfollow or block information and details on the user.
• slide finger left to right on any stream item to reply, see user information or favorite

You can follow them on Twitter at @atebits and @tweetie

TwitterFon

TwitterFon

Twitterfon was created by naan studio in Mountain View, CA.

TwitterFon offers:

• customizable font size
• single account
• auto scroll setting
• search
• history
• trends
• bookmarklet
• single click tweet to get basic user information and ability to reply, dm or RT
• single click icon in feed lets you instantly reply
• ability to follow, unfollow or block users

naan studio also writes TwitterFox, a Twitter extension for FireFox. You can follow them on Twitter as @TwitterFon or @TwitterFox.

Nambu

Nambu

I could not find out much about the folks at nambu, but they write a pretty sweet app for both the OSX desktop and iPhone. According to their whois information, they appear to be out of Vancouver, BC and run on @slicehost, another bunch of rocking geeks.

Nambu for the iPhone offers:

• one account each for Twitter, FriendFeed, Laconica, Identi.ca, Ping.fm, pic.im
• view your tr.im url stats
• single click to get individual tweet and ability to reply, dm, translate, retweet, favorite or flag
• follow or unfollow control by clicking on icon on individual tweet page

I would like to see the icon in the main stream click to user information, like the one on the individual tweet page. I am a big fan of consistency.

You can follow them on twitter under @nambucom and make application suggestions in their forum.

Twitkitteh

Twitkitteh

If none of the above applications thrill you, you might be interested in a LOL Cat style twitter application that allows you to select a topic (food, play, sleep, ruling the world or random) and generated tweets. It even has mice running around the screen and squeeks when you hit a button.

Twitkitteh is written by James Thomson of Glasgow, Scotland. James left working for “the man” to start his own company, TLA Systems.  If Twitkitteh does not interest you, and I suspect if it does, it will only be a pacing fancy, check out James’s DragThing utility and keep your Macintosh desktop clean.

You can show support for any of these geeks by buying their applications and sending them feedback for improvements.

I realize I may have missed some of your favorite features in these applications or even an application or two. Post your faves and anything I missed here!