Ever since the AppStore was released for the iPhone/iTouch I have been on what seems a constant mission to find the best Twitter app.

I started off with Twitterrific, which I found a bit poor to be honest. I soon moved on to Twittelator, and was surprised how much better it was. Twittelator stayed o.n my iTouch for a while before I liked it enough to buy an upgrade to Twittelator Pro.

The pro version offered a few new features including one that allowed you to view a longer history on your timeline. Something I found important after catching up with all my amsrician followers first thing in the morning.

Twittelator Pro stayed my top Twitter client on my iTouch until the day I got an iPhone. I installed Twittelator Pro on my iPhone and continued to use it, however it started to annoy me.

Over the month it has been updated many times, each occurance adding more and more features, making it not only more powerful, but sadley more complicated and unstable.

One bug that seems to always occur in Twittelator pro I the failure of media uploads. Photo/video uploads to twitpic, twitvid, YouTube seem to fail 9/10. Something that eventually made me give up on the app.

Te next app I tried was TweetDeck. TweetDeck is simple gorgeous to look at and has a really simple and intuative interface. Unfortunatly it does have much in the way of features.

One feature it does have which I liked the idea of is custom groups, in which you can organise and group followers into to seperate them. For example you coul have a “News” category or “Celebrities”. As great as this feature sounds, it was sadly let down by the fact some peoples tweets never seemed to show up. Tweets would simple not be shown in the app. This caused me to move on yet again.

So now I am using SimplyTweet, which seems pretty stable and does most of the things I want. It also has groups, bu is a little flakey at times. Features could be improved, but so far it’s one o the best apps I have used.

*Update: 13/10/2009*
So a few people have told me to try Tweetie, and more specifically Tweetie2. Truth is, I tried Tweetie a long time ago and didn’t like it so much that it only stayed installed on my iPhone for about 10minutes. Last night I thought I would give Tweetie2 a go, and am still not impressed.

Yes things have been improved, and it’s not a bad Twitter app, but it’s not a great Twitter app. There a few things that stand out as annoying. Firstly, even if you only have one Twitter account it makes you select one before your timeline is loaded.

Next when the timeline is loaded, lovely little blue lights under the icons for Timeline/Replies/Messages show up to show new entries but there is no indicate as to how many there are to read. The little red dot with the number in is pretty standard these days for a iPhone twitter app, so its weird no having it.

A few other things available in other apps that are sadly missing from Twittie2 include things such as Push Notifications and Groups which is a shame. So overall, it’s a pretty average app that I would say is worth the download cost.

So any suggestions as to other twitter apps fo the iPhone I should to try?

Tags: AppStore, iPhone, twitter

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