Twitterific 2.0 steals the spotlight from Tweetie on iPhone

Cleve Nettles
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May 09, 2009
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The two big names in Macintosh and iPhone Twitterring are Tweetie and Twitterrific.  The latter got a significant update in the iPhone space yesterday with the release of Twitterrific 2.0 ($3.99 iTunes link). 

It is a terrific update all around (an it has been redone, top to bottom), adding many up until now desktop only functions.  In fact, while we are sticking with Tweetie on the Mac platform, the new Twitterrific is our new iPhone destination.  The interface has been redone and a whole bunch of great new features has been added:

• New themes & timeline layouts
• Support for multiple accounts
• Extended author information
• Support for Twitter searches
• Support for Twitter trends
• Timeline filtering
• Conversation threads
• Support for retweeting
• Improved posting interface
• Advanced setting options

...to the already impressive feature list:

• Manage multiple accounts, searches & trends
• Unified timeline displays replies, direct messages, favorites & more
• Filter timeline for different tweet types instantly
• Easily view conversation threads between users
• Customizable visual themes & layout styles
• Powerful tweet actions such as RT, URL shortening, email, text compression & others
• Wide range of advanced settings

The one downer is that iPhone 3.0 testers aren't yet be able to follow links - which is a biggie.  Twitterrific has a call into Apple regarding the problem.

BTW, if you want to follow 9to5mac on Twitter, head here.

 

Comments (13)

KB (not verified) | May 09, 2009 - 10:08am

I've been using Tweetie and, having given Twitterific a try, I've got two suggestions for the folks at Icon Factory:

- Linked photos should display by themselves, without loading the whole twit.pic page...

- One should be able to access the 'follower' & 'following' lists for any user.

While Twitterific is definitely more feature-packed than Tweetie, I use both of these features a great deal and would love to see them added. For now, I'll probably stick with Tweetie.

Ken

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 09, 2009 - 10:27am

I agree with the above poster about the twitpic photos. I really like how Tweetie displays them without the additional comment window and everything else that Twitpic brings along. Pictures are sized correctly automatically.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 09, 2009 - 12:02pm

Really like v2.0. Although the screenshots have been somewhat saturated manually, in the iPhone the colors are not as vibrant as they appear here.

Gazoobee (not verified) | May 09, 2009 - 12:21pm

It's really good that competition has made Twitterific turn itself from lame also-ran to contender, but it still doesn't make it up to the standard that Tweetie has set IMO.

Twiterific still has some major "ugly UI" problems and while it's added a bunch of new features, those features are not actually the ones I want or the ones that make Tweetie so good.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 09, 2009 - 1:49pm

...will take back the crown. And it's not that far away.
It will supposedly be launched alongside iPhone OS 3.0.
I use Tweetie and I can safely say that it's the best mobile Twitter client.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 09, 2009 - 3:05pm

While the 2.0 revision is certainly a nice upgrade, this software still can't touch Tweetie. Just look at the screenshot you've posted, 3 tweets on a screen? Tweetie's interface is cleaner and more efficient in almost every way.

The best new feature of Twitterrific 2.0 is the conversation thread view; it's a great idea. I expect Tweetie will have the same feature in its 2.0 upgrade.

I think Twitterrific 2.0 is nice; but Tweetie is great.

ericdano (not verified) | May 09, 2009 - 7:02pm

I'm sticking with Tweetie. I'm not that impressed with Twitterrific.......

Sandra (not verified) | May 09, 2009 - 7:06pm

I do like twitterific 2.0 a lot but it's missing too many important features other twitter apps have like being able to see how many people you (or other people) follow and people following you. I'm pretty sure twitterfic will add more features in the future but they can just leave their 10 dollar paying customer in the dust for months and months and hope they come back while other competing apps update on a regular basis.

There's too many iphone apps out there that plan to be a full feature app through updates and I would rather not wait for them and just use what works now. I'm currently using twittelator pro and tweetie but I think tweetie is the better of the 2 because of the elegant, simplistic, modest approach it has to make twitter easy to use while containing the important features and not overwhelm the user like twittelator.

Twitterfic 2.0 is definitely a great app to use and play with but tweetie still takes the crown and I'm pretty sure they won't let twitterfic eat their lunch for long :)

Jerad Hill (not verified) | May 09, 2009 - 9:14pm

I just shot and uploaded a review of Twitterrific 2.0. You can view it at Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-GTCYHIMfo

Or at: http://theapppodcast.com/twitterrific-2

tof (not verified) | May 10, 2009 - 4:35am

Hello,

for me the best twitter app for iPhone is twitterfon, best UI, best fonctionality, better stability...
Twitterrific have some good think, but it is more like a beta than a final release...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 10, 2009 - 9:23am

I'll stick wither twitterFON. It does all I need without a bunch of features I don't.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 10, 2009 - 2:49pm

People should not complain if it doesn't work with 3.0. 3.0 is not available. 3.0 is in beta. Yeesh

LS (not verified) | May 11, 2009 - 10:08am

Sticking with TwitterFon too. I don't need the 'extra' features in Twitterific 2.0 and having to take an extra press for DM.