“Twitter and the iPhone seem, at a glance, a perfect match: bite-sized micro-content paired with the world’s best mobile web reader. But here’s the thing: there’s not yet a single good iPhone Twitter client,” John Gruber writes for Daring Fireball.
Gruber writes, “The main things I want in a Twitter interface on my iPhone, roughly in order:”
• A readable, attractive list of tweets, with the ability to page back to previous tweets so I can catch up if I haven’t looked at Twitter in a while.
• A good text input field for posting, including a live character count and responsive typing speed.
• The ability to mark tweets as favorites.
• An easy way to create @username replies.
• A way to view a list of replies directed at me.
Gruber writes, “There’s not a single available Twitter client for the iPhone that offers all of the above. And the single biggest problem is out of the hands of third-party developers: paging.”
Gruber writes, “Twitter.com is the best site for reading tweets, even though it’s not iPhone-optimized at all, simply because it allows for paging. But it’s the worst site for posting. Hahlo and PocketTweets are the best for posting, but because the Twitter API doesn’t allow for paging, no third-party client is good for reading.”
Much, much more in the full article, including screenshots, here.
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Get a life people.
What the heck is Twitter?
What is a Twitter?
It would be cool to have:
– A “To do” list. OmniOutliner would be sweet!
– Some sort of file system where you can store, like PDFs, notes and stuff
– Skype!!!
And, well…. yeah…. what’s a twitter?
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Nirvana!
Twinkle is really good and fun. Supports location based posts & you can send photo’s
You can do voip (incl skype calls) with fringle
Twinkle: http://www.iphonehacks.com/2008/04/twitter-twinkle.html
Fring: http://www.fring.com/iphone/
Sorry for the blogspam, but I couldn’t find the original one anymore….
Because there is not enough twit programmers I guess
Jeez people just use SMS for Twitter. it’s ten times faster since you don’t need a web interface at all. Read the Twitter docs for goodness sake
So I’m on Twitter now. Woot. I feel so… complete.
@Grifterus
“- A “To do” list. OmniOutliner would be sweet!”
Have you tried OmniFocus? That’s a pretty, darn good To Do List/Organizer.
isn’t there a web based program for this sort of thing? since twitter is primarily online based why have a host based client for it?
Never understood the popularity of Twitter… Do we really need to know what you’re doing this very second? Really?
Isn’t “good” and “Twitter client” an oxymoron?
Twinkle is pretty cool…. doesn’t do all of the above, but does most.
iPhone users don’t Twitter.
Don’t go to Daring Fireball. John Gruber is a jackass.
OMG!!!! I had no idea there weren’t any twitter clients for the iPhone. Well now, they just have to stop production until there is one. What is the point? Who wants any device without twitter. How did Apple over look this? Steve Jobs is an idiot for not demanding that the iPhone have Twitter clients and that those clients get the biggest Icon in the iPhone interface. The travesty!!!!!! Good thing MDN brought this to our attention. There needs to be a class action lawsuit. Yes there should. And since MDN deems this so important they should flip the bill for the lawyers.
Just my $0.02
Whats twitter?
I mean… its gay