Which Twitter App?Reviews and Recommendations for Twitter Apps

Osfoora friends stream. Click to enlargeOsfoora HD is a great looking, full-featured native iPad Twitter app. It's taken a little while for these iPad apps for Twitter to show up, but with Osfoora the gap is finally closing. They have taken a good iPhone app and made a fantastic iPad app.

UPDATE: Tweetie is now the Official Twitter App for iPhone, simply called Twitter

The app so nice he made it Twice! Tweetie 2 is an award-winning Twitter app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, stowing away an unbelievable number of features into a simple, easy, attractive interface. Seriously!! Every pixel of this interface is precisely designed and intuitive to use.

Tweetree is an alternative to the web interface at Twitter.com featuring expanded URLs and threaded conversations. Aside from those features, it sports a web interface whose primary difference from twitter.com is skin deep.

Tweetree handles all of the common Twitter streams & features like home, @ mentions, direct messages, and favorites. It has basic search and lets you save your common searches. It has a handy button for retweeting as well.

TwitBird Pro is a full-featured iPhone Twitter app that supports landscape view for tweets and the inline web browser. As they claim in the App Store description, landscape view is available on pretty much every screen of this iPhone app. If you are a fan of typing or web browsing with a wide screen on the iPhone, this is the twitter app for you!

Nambu is a feature-rich Twitter app for Mac OS X that supports many social networks. It offers plenty of configuration options but has simple defaults for beginners. It also has excellent integration with its sister services, tr.im and pic.im

DestroyTwitter is a full-featured yet lightweight Adobe AIR twitter app. While many other AIR apps are guilty of being on the pudgy and/or sluggish side, DestroyTwitter is refreshingly responsive. Upon load it starts at about 40MB and after using it for a bit, searching, and loading a couple other columns it only climbed to 61MB. Very good for an AIR app!

Even though the memory footprint is light, it doesn't skimp on features. The app is maintained by Jonnie Hallman, an Experience Designer at Adobe, so that may have something to do with it.

Tweetie is a gorgeous, full-featured desktop Twitter client for Macintosh. atebits is the company behind Tweetie, already known for the fantastic iPhone version of Tweetie. Notable features include:

Tweetie is a full-featured Twitter client for the iPhone with an extemely fast and responsive interface. This twitter app tailors to the power users while being easy to use for beginners. Features include:

TweetDeck is a feature-stuffed multi-column Twitter app for the iPhone. It is already a major desktop twitter client, running on Adobe AIR, with all the features anyone could ask for (including multiple accounts as of 0.26), so it seemed like they would spend all their time making a great user interface. They packed it all in there, but at the expense of usability. From their website:

TweetDeck is an Adobe AIR Twitter app for power users. Using a column layout, TweetDeck allows a user to set up many feeds at once. Some are specialized to Twitter, such as your friends, @ mentions, direct messages and so forth. But the real power lies in their numerous advanced search features, which filter the public timeline any way you desire: