Twitterrific for iphone update#

And a tap on the Nearby button lets you see tweets from Twinkle users near you, which is pretty cool. When you post to Twinkle, other Twinkle users can see what city you’re tweeting from. Twinkle’s best trait is its location awareness.

Twitterrific for iphone update#

(A forthcoming update will improve the program’s scrolling speed.)

The program’s scrolling also feels sluggish. Twitterrific can’t display all the messages from a given friend also, it doesn’t let you filter tweets to only see your direct messages, messages replying to your tweets, or a list of your own recent tweets. But I found the program’s large single-tweet view to be mostly a waste of time.Īlthough Twitterrific provides me with 95 percent of what I use Twitter for, there’s still plenty of room for the iPhone version to grow, especially given the tough competition of several excellent iPhone-optimized Twitter web interfaces, most notably A series of slide-out “hint” screens appear for new users, cleverly helping to teach you how the program works. The program’s interface is excellent, combining simplicity with solid functionality.

An embedded Web browser lets you tap on user names or hyperlinks and view the contents without having to switch out of the program and into Safari. The program includes integration with, so you can take a photo (or pick one from your photo library) and the program will automatically upload it and embed its URL in your tweet. Twitterrific displays tweets from your contacts and lets you send tweets.