Comments on: Hockenberry on Choices and Designing Twitteriffic

By: BG

BG — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:37:01 +0000

I've downloaded maybe 5 different Twitter apps for my iPhone and by far my favorite is Twinkle. I can locate other Twinkle users within a set radius of my current location, read their posts and make either public or private replies to those posts, including a photo if I wish. It's just a fun way of communicating with people. I visit it throughout the day and love to see what's on people's minds.

By: ZyberJoe

ZyberJoe — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:42:25 +0000

I like twinkle the best because of: 1. The UI 2. No ads 3. Free

By: Nill

Nill — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:17:17 +0000

I also use Twitterific because of the quick, clean UI but also because it's one of the few clients I know of that actually saves your "last read" location instead of simply dumping you at the newest tweet when you load it up.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:09:17 +0000

@Jason

In the article, Hockenberry talks about why they didn't add follow/un-follow, and how it was a mistake not to add it -- something they'll be addressing in an update

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:05:27 +0000

I use Twitterific as my default Twitter client, both on Mac and iPhone. But there are some feature that are frustratingly absent, such as the ability to follow/unfollow within the app, and the ability to view all tweets from a particular user without using the web interface.

I know other Twitter clients have this feature, but Twitterific's UI and look are just so phenomenal, that I've been able to put up with it's drawbacks. I'm not sure that will last forever, though. Here's hoping Twitterific can incorporate some other features found on other clients without sacrificing its svelte style. I think it can, but we'll see.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:04:57 +0000

I signed up for Twitter a month ago and haven't figured out wtf it is yet, either. I only signed up so I could send comments into CNN, but there doesn't seem to be any way of sending a message to anyone that I can see. Twitters Help section is a nightmare.

For the iPhone I chose to download TwitterFon because of the Apple UI. It doesn't matter if it lacks features because the others are an eyesore and I don't like eyesores on my beautiful iPhone. But, like I said it doesn't really matter because I have yet to use it.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:04:36 +0000

Twinkle is so much better then twitterific in my opinion twinkle is twitter and a iPhone community wrapped in one it's simply the best

By: iAirmanshirk

iAirmanshirk — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:37:16 +0000

i still dont understand wtf twitter is..