Using Ink

Earlier I mentioned that I’ll still be using TwitterFon as a primary twitterer, but it appears now that Tweetie for iPhone is the one I use at most.

Today Twitterrific 2 was released. This looks like a very interesting update. ‘Premium’ edition is $3.99, not $9.99.

There is a lot of improvement in the new Twitterrific but it still hasn’t a ‘black on white’ interface. As Gedeon Maheux kindly pointed out, one can switch to a white background and a dark text.

Last night, after I came home from the Victory Day celebration, I’ve been examining the new Twitterrific. Briefly speaking, it’s a good program (pardon me, Americans: I don’t use the words ‘great’, ‘love’, etc. often).

The Features

Firstly, Twitterrific supports multiple accounts. Today, this is a necessity; a popular Tweetie already has that feature. But Twitterrific 2.0 has it even better because  T. 2.0 allows you to use not only Twitter; Identi.ca, Present.ly are supported out of the box. And with a ‘Base URL‘ option you can use any service that supports Twitter API.

Secondly, there are ‘Searches’: the recently-added feature of Twitter which allows you to see what other people are saying on some topic. Give T. 2.0 a list of terms to watch, filter tweets by author if you wish—or by addressee; narrow your search by geo distance. Your could be looking for ‘discount, gadget, Amazon’; maybe for ‘band, club’ in the radius of one mile.

Thirdly, Twitterrific shows conversations. It lets you know what question each person is answering. Twittie shows conversations as well but not on one screen.

And a ‘Public Timeline’ is there in Twitterrific 2.0 while TwitterFon and Tweetie have none.

Not So Obvious Parts of the Interface

It’s strange, why a ‘Font Settings’ button is in the right top corner. Both TwitterFon and Tweetie have a ‘New Post’ there.

Newly loaded tweets, ‘updates’, are marked only with a different colour of their dates. Very Tufty. I didn’t see the updates were marked until I was told they were.

The updates have a different background in TwitterFon; in Tweetie you’re being scrolled to the first newly arrived tweet.

Features Currently Not There

Twitterrific 2.0 today doesn’t show you the list of followers or the ‘following’ list. This is due to be fixed.

You can’t load more than a 100 tweets in any timeline.

I didn’t find an easy way to search for Twitter users by their login.

So What?

Definitely it’s worth installing at least a free Twitterrific 2.0.

If you haven’t any paid Twitter clients for iPhone, I’d recommend buying a Premium version without thinking. It’s much cheaper now than it was, and it’ll be easier to use the client without ads. Those who have a favourable client will decide on their own after playing with a free version. I was glad to see this update even though I bought Tweetie recently.