Updated (4/20/10) - Added Twicca, HootSuite, Touiteur and ratings.
Updated (2/5/10) - Seesmic has been updated to v1.2 which includes search, multiple accounts and many bug fixes.
My new favorite client is Twicca. So fast and simply the best.
Three of my favorite twitter clients are
- Twidroid (4/5)
- Pros
- Smooth and Fast GUI
- multiple accounts
- Paid version supports custom colors
- Paid version supports lists
- Plug-Ins
- Twitter's native re-tweets
- Many customizable options such as 5 URL shortening and 4 Video sharing services, bitly API key, and notification settings
- Cons
- Free version cannot manage followers
- No single tweet view with additional info
- Dates are only in time ago not real time (i.e. "7 hours ago")
- Swift now HootSuite (4.5/5)
- Pros
- Nice Single Tweet View with additional information such as shortened URLs with full path.
- Real-time notifications
- Fast GUI
- Manage followers with relationship manager
- Links can be opened within application
- Multiple Steams for Home Feed, Mentions, Direct Messages, Sent, etc.
- Syncs with HootSuite web client.
- Cons
- Slow Timeline Refresh
- No native retweet support
- Limited settings
- URLs are shortened with http://ow.ly
- Seemic (4/5)
- Pros
- Clean, Fast GUI
- The best manage follower screen
- Bitly API support
- 3 URL shortening & video sharingservices
- Multiple Accounts
- ability to see large profile pics (thanks BloomyMommy)
- Cons
No search featureSlow and Buggy- Limited preferences
- No native retweet support
no multi-user support- Twicca (5/5)
- Pros
- Clean, Fast GUI
- Manage follower screen
- Manage Colors for users
- Most customizable
- Geo-tagging
- List Support
- Plugin for Twitpic to be viewed within App
- Expand URLs by long pressing a link
- bitly support
- Cons
- no multi-user support
- Touiteur (3/5)
- Pros
- Pretty GUI
- Manage follower screen
- Most customizable
- List Support
- Color support
- Cons
- no multi-user support in free version
- Soooooo slooooow
- Buggy
- The name (seriously who knows how to pronounce "twitter with a French accent")
- Official Twitter for Android (4.5/5)
- Pros
- Clean and Unique GUI w/ animated twitter bird
- Geo-tagging
- List Support
- Bitly/Twitpic support
- Syncs with your contacts (best feature) just like facebook
- Integrated Map
- Cons
- no multi-user support
- Does not remember timeline position
- No RT with comments
- Limited options
Twidroid Single Tweet View
Swift Single Tweet View HootSuite Single Tweet View
Seesmic Single Tweet View
Twicca Single Tweet View
7 comments:
Another con to twicca is no bitly shortening. Another pro is seesmic is ability to see profile pics very large.
Twicca actually does have bitly URL shortening, its just a little hard to find. When composing a new tweet click the double arrows pointing at each other. You can also expand any shortened URL by long pressing the URL and choosing "Expand this URL"
Twidroid doesn't link replies to original. No app that overlooks such a basic feature deserves that many stars.
It does link replies. Click on the replied tweet and select "Show Conversation". It should show all the tweets in the conversation.
Do we mean the same thing? When you reply with most twitter clients, the two messages share a thread that you can see on the web (and some clients). Not with twidroid. I reply and people have to ask me what I replied to.
I gotcha. I was thinking you meant Twidroid doesn't display conversations within the app. I assume you are talking about the app publishing the reply properly. I did not realize that. Thanks for the heads up.
Thanks for telling us about twicca. looks like a winner.
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