Twitter is being transformed from a microblog and social messaging site to a platform. So what better way to get the most out of Twitter than through the most popular smartphone in the world?
There are a lot of great option if you are looking for a solid iPhone Twitter client, and you don't need to spend a lot of money for one. In fact, many of the free clients offer as many or more features than you get when you visit the Twitter website.
Here are the best free iPhone Twitter clients:
Perhaps the best free iPhone Twitter client on the market, TweetDeck is quick, has a nice and easy-to-user interface, gives you information about the number of updates right up front, and supports all of your basic Twitter functions. As an added bonus, TweetDeck also supports Twitter groups, so you can organize your tweets. Flipping between sections is easy, and the fast scroll of tweets is nice when flipping through updates.
Twinkle doesn't offer as many Twitter features as TweetDeck, but it does have the added bonus of coming with its own social network. You can also read Facebook updates from Twinkle, so it can make for a one-client-reads-all if you are mainly on Facebook and Twitter. But the main reason to use Twinkle is for the Tapalous social network, which gives you a localized Twitter-like service that lets you track messages within a certain radius of your current location.
A solid client with basic features, NatsuLion is fast and customizable. It doesn't support groups or the ability to send pictures, but it is very easy to use. You can also change the color scheme, enable and auto-refresh, tell it how many tweets to load initially and even switch to left-handed controls.
The free version of Echofon is a good, solid iPhone Twitter client. It doesn't support groups or make it easy to send pictures, but if those aren't important features for you, Echofon might be a good choice. It is faster than some of the other clients and loads up the tweets starting with where you last left off, so you can scroll up to catch up on the conversation.
While light on the Twitter features, TweetNGo lite does come with a news, sports and entertainment section. These sections will pull in tweets from their respective topics, thus allowing you to quickly find out what is going on in the world, with your favorite team, or the latest gossip in Hollywood.
This very basic Twitter client doesn't have a lot to offer and is a little clunky to use compared to some of the other clients. But it does have the ability to show nearby tweets, which is neat if you want to listen in on the conversations of those in your general area. It's just too bad that the interface makes it such a pain to use.
Intended as a quick way to fire off a message to Twitter, Twitfire doesn't let you actually read updates from your friends. However, it does support sending a photo or attaching your current location. It even has an interface for sending a website link. If you mainly just send messages, Twitfire can be a good utility, but for those that rely heavily on reading what other people have to say, Twitfire isn't the best iPhone Twitter client.
Forget what your friends have to say or sending your own thoughts out in the world. CelebTweet is all about stalking your favorite celebrities on Twitter. Not only will you get all the latest tweets from Ashton Kutcher and Perez Hilton, but you'll even be able to see who has tweeted the most that day. Unfortunately, you have to rely on CelebTweet's lists of who is a celeb and who isn't. And for some unknown reason, they left yours truly off the list.
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