iPhone Twitter App Comparison Chart by
John Tokash (blog.tokash.org) |
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twittelator |
tweetsville |
twitterrific |
twitterfon |
tweetie |
Price |
4.99 |
3.99 |
9.99 |
free |
2.99 |
Free Option |
yes |
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yes |
yes |
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Open Source |
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yes |
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Version |
1.6.1 |
1.2 |
1.1.1 |
1.4 |
1.2 |
Reading Functionality |
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twittelator |
tweetsville |
twitterrific |
twitterfon |
tweetie |
Friends Timeline |
yes |
yes |
combined |
yes |
yes |
Public Timeline |
yes |
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combined |
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yes |
View Replies to Me |
yes |
yes |
combined |
yes |
yes |
Mark Tweet as a Favorite |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
View Favorites |
yes |
yes |
combined |
yes |
yes |
View My Tweets |
yes |
yes |
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yes |
View Inbound Direct Messages |
no |
yes |
combined |
yes |
yes |
View Sent Direct Messages |
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yes |
combined |
yes |
yes |
Trends |
yes |
yes |
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yes |
yes |
Scroll to Unread |
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yes |
yes |
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Scroll to Last Read |
yes |
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yes |
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yes |
Auto refresh |
yes |
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yes |
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Tapping the top of the screen scrolls immediately to
the top of your tweet list |
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yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Groups - see streams of tweets from a specific
selection of users |
yes |
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Multiple Accounts |
yes |
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yes |
TwitPics images are shown inline |
yes |
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Embedded TwitPic viewer |
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yes |
Save twitpic images to photo album |
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yes |
Multiple Themes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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yes |
Multiple Font Sizes |
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yes |
Reply Navigation |
yes |
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yes |
yes |
Instapaper Integration |
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yes |
Email link to Tweet |
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yes |
Offline Reading |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Writing Functionality |
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twittelator |
tweetsville |
twitterrific |
twitterfon |
tweetie |
Write Tweet |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Write Tweet has friend chooser |
yes |
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yes |
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Insert Pic |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Location aware |
yes |
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yes |
yes |
yes |
Save Tweet as draft |
yes |
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yes |
yes |
yes |
Tweet edit has symbol selector |
yes |
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Retweet functionality |
yes |
yes |
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yes |
yes |
Reply |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Direct Message |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Delete Tweets |
yes |
yes |
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yes |
yes |
URL Handler and/or bookmarklet |
yes |
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yes |
yes |
yes |
Landscape Keyboard Option |
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yes |
Switch 'from' User in Compose Screen |
? |
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yes |
Post Link to this Tweet |
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yes |
Offline Compose |
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yes |
yes |
yes |
Searching Functionality |
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twittelator |
tweetsville |
twitterrific |
twitterfon |
tweetie |
Search |
yes |
yes |
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yes |
yes |
Show nearby tweets |
yes |
yes |
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yes |
yes |
Search nearby tweets |
yes |
yes |
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Search within all friends tweets |
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Advanced Search Constructor |
yes |
yes |
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Search History or Bookmarked Searches |
yes |
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yes |
yes |
Clicking #tags in tweets take you to a search |
yes |
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Safari |
yes |
yes |
Link Functionality |
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twittelator |
tweetsville |
twitterrific |
twitterfon |
tweetie |
Embedded Browser |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Safari |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Tweet link |
yes |
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yes |
yes |
Email link |
yes |
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yes |
yes |
Follow urls in tweets |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Handle $AAPL Style Links |
yes |
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yes |
History is maintained between tweet link clicks in
embedded browser |
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yes |
yes |
yes |
Shortened links are resolved before you have to go
to the browser |
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User Management |
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twittelator |
tweetsville |
twitterrific |
twitterfon |
tweetie |
See lists of Followers and Following per user |
yes |
yes |
Safari |
yes |
yes |
Follow and Unfollow users |
yes |
yes |
Safari |
yes |
yes |
Access user profiles |
yes |
yes |
sometimes |
yes |
yes |
Access user timelines |
yes |
yes |
Safari |
yes |
yes |
See "followers" stream for a given user |
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See "following" stream for a given user |
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Browse a list of friends to get, quickly, to
individual timelines |
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List of Recent users clicked |
yes |
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Block / Unblock users |
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yes |
Look up user |
yes (search) |
yes (search) |
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yes (search) |
yes |