PAUSE! This is a break from you regularly scheduled programming of online privacy. While my following post about Twitter apps may relate, I am not specifically referring to privacy below.
Twitter applications are usually considered in terms of mobile phones. However, there are apps for the computer and for the browsers on these
computers. The following will include a discussion of apps for iPhones, Android phones and other devices. Also, each of these apps require users to have a twitter account or to create one to use the app.
iPhone Apps (to be downloaded from the iTunes store):
Tweetie 2 (shown on right) is an application only available for iPod touches or iPhones. It allows one to explore all online features of Twitter, but from a phone. It shortens URLs and allows one to preview the URL when posting links to followers. It allows for the integration of multiple accounts and can filter the timeline. The app also incorporates twitLonger, providing a tool to post tweets of longer than 140 characters, hashtag definitions, for those who may be new to Twitter or those who may not know what a hashtag means, and offline mode. This application won an Apple design award in 2009.
Twittelator is solely for Apple devices. This app has a Pro and a Lite version. The Pro version comes with the feature to copy pictures to other tweets, use Song.ly to embed MP3 links, and much more. With this app, you can receive stock tweets by searching for a specific stock symbol. From these searches, users can build portfolios to keep track of recent mentions.
Birdhouse is an app for Apple devices whose sole purpose is to give users more control over writing for Twitter. It’s more of a tweet drafing app allowing someone to save tweet drafts which is beneficial for capturing ideas offline, even in airplane mode. Users can integrate and publish these drafts from multiple twitter accounts. If an error occurs, this app allows the user to back everything up by e-mail.
Android apps (to be downloaded from the Android market):
Touiter is an Android app which has a free and premium version. The premium version allows users to integrate multiple accounts and filtering. It also provides 3 different widgets to be used on the home screen. I personally have used this app and with that the free version came with at least one home widget. The premium version also shortens URLs and in the feature will include TwitLonger, the same feature in the Tweetie 2 app above.
Twicca is an Android-specific app where you can receive notifications an post statuses like the other Twitter apps. Similar to the others, geotagging, widgets, image previews, and URL shortening are also included. The difference is that you can download plug-ins with this app to upload bookmarks to twitter and configure with twitpic.
Twidroyd, (shown on right) of course by its name, is an Android-only app which includes custom
alert ringtones (“tweet tweet”), gelocation support, different widgets, auto-completion of hashtags and usernames and a live preview of media. In addition, it suggests a list of other interesting people to follow, similar to the user suggestions feature on the actual twitter website. The only difference, stated on the website, betweetn the $3.99 premium app and the free app is that the free app doesn’t have a dark pro application icon. If this is the only difference, I’d gladly take the free version anyday!Other apps:
Lastly, there are other apps such as UnTweeps which is a web app that can be accessed by any device that has the internet. It uses twitter’s login system (API) to authenticate users and allows people to unfollow people who haven’t updated their profiles in a certain number of days. There is also a whitelist feature where you can still follow people who don’t tweet often but don’t list them on your followers list. Untweep Pro is a paid version of Untweep and it’s for people who may want to use the app more than 3 times a month or unfollow people who haven’t tweeted within the last frequent days. The user could buy an account for $1.37 for 3 days or pay a subscription of $5 per month.
Mixero is another application that is compatible with the iPhone, and several computer operating systems (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux). Mixero provides support for Facebook and Twitter.
Regarding Twitter, users can filter groups and autogenerate usernames. It allows one to preview images or watch YouTube videos within their timeline. On all versions, there is an avatars mode which lets you see your friends photos and how many of their tweets you have not read.
Seesmic (shown above) is another app that incorporates multiple platforms – Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows phones, macs, and PCs. What makes this app intriguing is that it can be used within different internet browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. Each of these has its own specific features but they all allow you to simultaneously update statuses on multiple sites – Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google Buzz.
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