I’ve been noodling away on a review of Twitter clients for the iPad, but Viticci did a great job. Read his instead.
Clark seems to like the official client. For me, I’ve stopped using the official client because I no longer trust Twitter’s design sense. I’ve been using TweetCaster Pro on the iPad for basic twitter use. I like the simple conversation and attachment view. On the iPhone I use Tweetbot.1
But when I’m researching something using Twitter, there’s no beating TweetLibrary. It’s the power user app. Unfortunately, it is a little rough around the edges. It’s slower than other apps and crashes occasionally. BUT, it handles search and collecting tweets better than any other app I’ve tried. For example, published tweet collections. Viticci is exactly right. TweetLibrary is rethinking what Twitter is for.
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I wish they would make a native iPad app. ↩
I’m not sure I’d say I like it. Most of the criticisms I fully and completely agree with. I hate how much of a pain it is to do a search. I used to use saved searches all the time and now it’s so buried that I almost never use it. I hate that. I also agree with most of the visual critiques people have made. (Why on earth they changed the margins escapes me)
What I have come to love though are a few of the new features. To such an extent that when I use other clients (such as the official OSX one) I find myself really missing them. As I said I’d kill to have the “click to see responses” feature on the OSX client.
I’m hoping that they respond to all the criticisms and come out with a new client that fixes those issues but also keep adding these new features. It’s the new features that I really do love. All the stuff put under the Me tab I hate. (Half the features there I didn’t even notice for over a month!)