A bit overdue, yes, but here it is, the second part in my series of iPhone Twitter client reviews! This time we're going to take a look at Twitterrific by The Iconfactory.
Twitterrific, together with last month's entry, Twittelator, represent(probably) the two most popular clients for the iPhone, and there's a reason for that. Both are highly polished and easy to use, and both provide a saavy Twitter addict all the bling and phat &%#@! they'll ever need(Does anybody even use 'phat' anymore?). Let's talk features.
Just like Twittelator, Twitterrific comes in a free, ad-supported version, and a paid premium flavor. But the folks at The Iconfactory distinguish their product from all the others—as far as I can tell—in that the only difference between the ad-supported free download and the premium flavor is, you guessed it, the ads! The free Twitterrific download from the App Store is a full featured client with a totally unobtrusive ad thrown in at the top of your timeline. Most of the time you probably wouldn't even notice it. Note the screenshot below; that's the ad right there at the top of the timeline! I bet you wouldn't even have seen had I not been on top of things and pointed it out to you!
Twitterrific's interface is smooth and polished, very well put together. I can't really put my finger on it, but it's just a joy to navigate around in this app; I'd definately call Twitterrific a luxury model Twitter app for the iPhone! After you get your Twitter account setup, your launch point will be Twitterrific's Sources screen.
From here you can launch a search, view what's up on the public timeline, see who's tweeting near you, or simply catch up with your own followers. Also, just below the handy search links, Twitterrific lists the top trending topics on Twitter, which on some other Twitter clients is inconveniently buried under a few menus. This is a very nice feature in my opinion as when you fire up Twitterrific you can immediately see what's being talked about in the Twittersphere! I like it, yes, yes I do.
When you're viewing your followers' and friends' tweets everything you need is accessed along the bottom with just a few menu buttons, shown below.
Refresh, start a new tweet, an interesting and useful Action button(the asterisk), and a filter to access other Twitter goodness. Although the filter button looks suspiciously like a funnel to me, which I found to be a bit confusing, it will indeed give you access to your @replies, direct messages, your favorited and marked tweets, and a convenient listing of your very own, and no doubt highly relevant and influential contributions to the Twittersphere. As I mentioned above there was some confusion for me upon first opening Twitterrific, as it just didn't seem to be intuitively obvious what I should be doing and when(I often have this problem in my general life, so don't be surprised), but thankfullly there is an excellent set of video 'tweetorials' on twitterrific.com explaining how to use virtually every aspect of Twitterrific that, additionally, serve as a respectable introduction to basic Twitter concepts. What more can you ask for? I really wish I could close with some pithy statement about the sheer beauty and elegance of Twitterrific which would subliminally compel people to download it immediately, but I would probably just muck it up and readers would end up with a craving for...I don't know what, but it would be something not Twitterrific I'm sure(I really lost it there. Don't quite know what I was going for, I just know it wasn't that). What I can say, that I haven't already said, is that Twitterrific is probably one of smoothest and best looking Twitter clients for the iphone; if you want to treat yourself check it out on the app store.
Refresh, start a new tweet, an interesting and useful Action button(the asterisk), and a filter to access other Twitter goodness. Although the filter button looks suspiciously like a funnel to me, which I found to be a bit confusing, it will indeed give you access to your @replies, direct messages, your favorited and marked tweets, and a convenient listing of your very own, and no doubt highly relevant and influential contributions to the Twittersphere. As I mentioned above there was some confusion for me upon first opening Twitterrific, as it just didn't seem to be intuitively obvious what I should be doing and when(I often have this problem in my general life, so don't be surprised), but thankfullly there is an excellent set of video 'tweetorials' on twitterrific.com explaining how to use virtually every aspect of Twitterrific that, additionally, serve as a respectable introduction to basic Twitter concepts. What more can you ask for? I really wish I could close with some pithy statement about the sheer beauty and elegance of Twitterrific which would subliminally compel people to download it immediately, but I would probably just muck it up and readers would end up with a craving for...I don't know what, but it would be something not Twitterrific I'm sure(I really lost it there. Don't quite know what I was going for, I just know it wasn't that). What I can say, that I haven't already said, is that Twitterrific is probably one of smoothest and best looking Twitter clients for the iphone; if you want to treat yourself check it out on the app store.
[Screenshots via Softonic]
