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Many of us have become consumed with Twitter. This has led to purchasing or downloading multiple Twitter apps to our iPhones. Which one is the best? Which has the features you want?

We took a look at some of the most popular Twitter clients for iPhone, and came up with the conclusion that none is perfect yet. One that offers the most features for you, may lack a feature I desire.

Take a look at our comparison chart, and read our thoughts:

Allyson Kazmucha – @iMuggle has this to say:

Out of all the clients we have checked out and listed, there are pros and cons of each. As with most things, it’s really going to come down to preference.

For me, I’ll start off with the 3 I found the hardest to choose from. The top 3 for me would be Twittelator Pro, tweetie, and Twitterena.
Twitterific came in a close 4th but with recent developments, I think Twitterena may slide in 4th for me now, and Twitterific wins 3rd by default. My reasoning, you ask?

Recently the developer of Twitterena, Andrew Weekes, announced that he would be releasing Twitterena Pro soon. Now that’s great and all and he has every intention of keeping the original Twitterena on the app store for .99 while Pro will weigh in at 3.99, but here’s the catch, the current version of Twitterena will not be updated anymore unless it’s a bug fix. To me, this was misleading to a lot of people. As of a month ago, users of Twitterena were told the major updates would be given to current users for free for being loyal to the app.  Now that doesn’t seem to be the case. If you want updates, shell out another 4 bucks on top of the .99 you already paid. There will, however, be a light version for free, but we won’t even talk about that here as anyone taking time to read this review wouldn’t bother with a skimmed down light version of the app anyways.

My opinion, for $2.99 you can get a very decent twitter client with Tweetie. There are a few things that irk me about Tweetie but I still consider it a second place. No multiple @replies is a big downer for me (and if there IS a way to do them, someone please inform me). Trying to do follow Fridays from tweetie is a nightmare.

My number one pick would be Twittelator Pro. Sure, 4.99 may be a little steep for a Twitter client, but it’s worth every penny if you’re a heavy user.  The layout is just so common sense, and underneath are some very powerful features that every heavy user not only wants, but demands. So, if you’re in the market for an excellent Twitter client, and don’t mind shelling out more than the average, this is your winner. Twittelator Pro is also the only client so far that supports video for the 3GS.

Say you don’t want to spend money, or you’re not a heavy user, my top free pick would have to be twitterific. This app has a paid and a free version, and as far as I can see, the only difference is an ad at the top and occasional pop ups. But for free, you can’t beat it. The only issue I had was that the layout was a little too busy for my liking and not nearly as user friendly as say Tweetie or Twittelator Pro. Tweetie is clean and simple while Twittelator pro is very user customizable. In Twittelator pro, if you check DMs frequently, drag it to your bar, if you check your own timeline a lot, drag that to the bottom from settings. Its lets you choose what you want to see when you open the app.
As for the others, Tweetdeck has a very slick interface, but a long way to go in terms of functionality. I couldn’t even find my sent DMs and that right there was an automatic bump to the very last page of my iPhone homescreen, and it’s been there collecting dust ever since. When an update comes along, I’ll try it out again. It was disappointing as I was really excited for Tweetdeck. It’s great on the computer and I love having separate docks. I kept getting API errors as well, which was pretty annoying. So for now, Tweetdeck is retired.

That’s my view, if anyone else knows anything I missed or has an awesome client you would like to recommend, please feel free to share.

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Alli Flowers – @alli_flowers has this to say:

If you are reading this, you probably know how important Twitter is to me. Yet I am conflicted with the many mobile versions. I only use TweetDeck on my pc. It does everything I want/need and then some. I naturally put it in first position on my iPhone as soon as the mobile version was available. Being able to limit my active stream is the most important thing for me. If I’m mobile, I don’t want to spend hours reading every tweet sent by the almost 1,000 people I’m following. It’s a far more select group that I want to keep tabs on, and that also cuts down on the time I spend reading my tweets when I’m out, about, and supposed to be doing other things.

I finally bit the bullet and purchased Twittelator Pro. It will allow me that one most important thing – to create a separate group so that I don’t have to follow everyone when I’m mobile. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to allow me to do the task I require quite frequently, and that is to check the profile and follow someone who was @ mentioned in the tweet of someone I follow. <sigh>

The truth is, I got Twittelator Pro partly because it can take advantage of the 3GS’ video. But I have this feeling that I will still wind up taking video outside of the app, and then emailing it to Mobypicture, where it will post to my Facebook and Flickr accounts as well as Twitter. I will probably wind up doing the same for voice. And I’m lazy…for a quick tweet, I will still go straight to a text message, rather than opening any client, no matter how quickly it opens.

So to paraphrase Allyson…to each his own. Determine which features are important to you, and get the client that best fits your unique needs. Oh, and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter!

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July 17th, 2009 | Category: Editorials, Reviews | Subscribe to comments | Both comments and pings are currently closed