A Betterer Twitter App(er)

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