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TwitterFon - Main Page

For ever so long I was using the Twitterific app, but, as you’d be able to tell by viewing my history, I never really used it that much.

Honestly, it was a pretty shit app, doing anything was always a hassle, and the user experience never made me want to come back. I’d only login for an update out of guilt from not logging in for an update.

Well last night I was playing around in the app store (as you do when you’re in bed at like 11:30 with a wireless network. Go wireless network! I love you even though you’re as secure as a paper mâché safe) and I stumbled across an app called TwitterFon.

(Sorry, I’d link up these things but I haven’t figured out how to browse through the app store via Firefox yet)

TwitterFon - Tweeter Information

Anyway, TwitterFon is much better than Twitterific, and still free (the ultimate measure of whether I install it or not), providing features that actually make me want to go back and use it, and not just from the guilt of not updating.

It’s got things like the ability to view Tweets by type, like Reply and Messages (of the Direct kind). You can select a tweet and get more options, such as “Reply”, “Send a DM” and “Retweet”. Not sure about the last one though, maybe it requires some more investigation. You can also view that users timeline and their profile.

TwitterFon - Search

As a (cool) aside, if you’ve got an iphone it shows the geographic co-ordinates of your iPhone.

If you view the Tweeter’s profile you’re presented with some more handy options, you can view who they’re following, who’s following them, their updates and their favourites. You’re also provided a handy link to Follow that user.

There’s also a search, which has the ability to search for Tweets near you, as well as the normal search function (finding irrelevant things not near you), to access the location search you just press on the little target icon, same as the iPhone maps.

Anyway, I’m running out of steam now.

tl;dr

TwitterFon = awesome. Twitterific = poo. Give TwitterFon a try today, made me bother to update again.

Justin