Twitterrific for iPhone is a fantastic, feature-packed iPhone twitter app for beginning and advanced users alike. First of all, their 2.0 release saw a major performance and feature overhaul compared to the original version, which was a great twitter app to begin with. This interface is amazing! It's quick and responsive, and scrolling past a hundred tweets with one flick is no problem. But it's not just looks, because there is a LOT packed under the hood:
- Standard Streams - all the standard streams, including friends, @ mentions, your recent tweets, DMs, favorites, and even the public timeline. Upon opening it alerts you to the number of tweets loaded since your last use. You can set how many tweets you want loaded, and you also have the option to auto refresh every 3, 5, or 10 minutes.
- Multiple accounts - this one took a little while to find, but if you go to the Sources screen and hit Edit in the upper right, you can add or delete accounts (and searches you've saved).
- iPhone Mandatories - GPS location update and picture uploading included (yfrog, TwitPic, Posterous, and Twitgoo). URL shortening and text shrinking are also available.
- Text Resizing - this is a feature not often seen outside the web browser on the iPhone. There are three text sizes to choose from. The smallest size does not display user avatars.
- Keyboard Minimizing - by pressing the Eye button on the compose screen, Twitterrific hides the keyboard and reveals the stream you were viewing, in case you need to glance at a tweet again without having to cancel.
- Powerful Search - Not only does Twitterrific show the current trends, but they provide a novel way to search. Instead of a plain search bar, there is a set of options labeled in plain english, allowing anyone to easily search for words, tweets from or to a user, or by distance from a specific place. Support for hashtags and stocktwits is available. You can save any search you create as well!
So Many Options
You have the option to re-tweet using the "RT @user" or "(via @user)" formats. You can set shortcut actions for a single, double, and triple tap on any tweet. You have the option to disable or enable the color coding on tweets sent to or from you, as well as DMs (brown ones are @ mentions, green are your outgoing tweets/DMs, and blue is an incoming DM.
Some truly unique and fun features are the notification chimes, which come with four different bird chirps to choose from. They offer three beautiful and thorough themes that we've come to expect out of any Iconfactory software: Raven (dark), Snowy (light), and Basic (bright).
Don't like the Ads? Get Twitterrific Premium
Every once in a while you'll see an ad fly by the free version's slick interface. In my opinion they are unobtrusive, but if they bother you, Twitterrific Premium costs $3.99 (not quite a premium) and removes these ads permanently.
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