At this moment Twitter sure have a heck of a lot of 3rd party desktop and mobile apps that serve their service but not one is perfect. How could they be when everyone has his or her own way of using it? Currently I use Twitterrific on the Mac and Tweetie on my iPhone.
Why not Twitterrific on both? After all, they’re both pretty much the same, even identical. Well, there are certain needs that can be easily accommodated when you’re on a desktop or notebook that is simply not available or not convenient when accessing Twitter from the iPhone or iPod touch. To Craig Hockenberry’s credit, Twitterrific is arguably the best free twitter client for the iPhone OS.
I can easily access the web interface on the Mac without having to close Twitterrific to access direct messages and @ replies on their own respective pages. Not so on the iPhone. Tweetie lets me do that. It also lets me access Twitter search, save the results of that search, find tweets from people who are physically nearby, and lets me access multiple accounts with a couple of flicks of the finger. Twitterrific limits feeds to 200 at a time like with Twitterberry whereas Tweetie lets you go back as far as Twitter allows it to (or as much as your data plan lets you).
So to me, Tweetie is pretty much the closest thing to the best Twitter app for the iPhone OS right now but there’s still a few things that it doesn’t let me do either because it does a good job of doing a heck of a lot already, or it’s not available from Twitter API.
After that long intro, here’s what I’d like to see in a future Twitter app. Tagged with #D for desktop specific, #M for mobile app
1. Has everything from Tweetie #M
2. Shorten URL before posting the tweet
3. Sends posted link to delicious (possibly #D only)
4. Caches tweets like Twitterrific for offline reading
5. Has draft or outgoing tab for tweets that didn’t get sent due to loss of net connection
6. Option to enable/disable auto update
7. Shows how many people the person follows, not just followers #M
That’s pretty much what I can think of right now.
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