By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, May 20, 2010 | So you have an iPhone and you use Twitter, but with the plethora of Twitter applications available in the App Store (including one that just went official), which do you chose? TiPb is here to help with a Twitter app roundup! Now this is not your typical top 5 or top 10 must-have, best Twitter app list. This is about options and alternatives, and Ally, Leanna, and guest writer Alli Flowers have chosen the following 12 to review and help narrow your search: To see what we had to say, follow us after the break! Previously known as Tweetie, Twitter for iPhone [Free - iTunes link] is the official Twitter application from Twitter. It is full featured and easy to use. Swiping a tweet will get you reply options, and tapping the tweet will allow you to view attached photos or url’s. The Read More

When you think about what the best iPad-optimized app would be, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?  A word processing app? A game? A comic book reader?  What about Twitter apps?  Yes, Twitter apps!  Tweetdeck looks and works wonderfully on my MacBook’s 13.3″ screen, allowing me to be the best Twitterer I can possibly be.  Just imagine that kind of power on an even more portable device, the iPad.  But none of the major iPhone Twitter app developers have committed to the iPad quite yet, including Tweetdeck.  That is until now. In our quest to track down every potential iPad app developer, we decided to shoot an email to Gedeon Maheux of the Iconfactory in hopes of getting some juicy details regarding Twitterrific for the iPad.  Although we didn’t come away with any screenshots or specific information, we were able to confirm that they are indeed working on an Read More

Microsoft’s Suchmaschine ‘Bing’ führt das Schlagwort ‘Twitter’ an zweiter Position seiner Top 10-Liste für das Jahr 2009. Damit verliert der Kurzmitteilungsdienst nur knapp gegen Michael Jackson. Folgescherze verkneife ich mir an dieser Stelle… Die Spitzenplatzierung nimmt der Begriff ‘Twitter’ dagegen erfolgreich beim ‘Global Language Monitor‘ für 2009 ein, und verweist ‘Obama’ oder ‘H1N1′ auf hintere Positionierungen. Das ist alles auch total unwichtig, zeigt jedoch die ungebremste Popularität des Webdienstleisters, der sich auch im App Store die entsprechenden Clients zum komfortablen Absetzen der 140-Zeichen gegenübersehen. Ohne Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit duellieren sich dort Echofon (3.99 €; App Store-Link), Birdfeed (2.39 €; App Store-Link), Twitterrific (3.99 €; App Store-Link), Tweetdeck (kostenlos; App Store-Link) oder Tweetie II (2.39 €; App Store-Link). Der letzte Kandidat bekam in der letzten Nacht ein kostenfreies 2.1-Update (App Store-Link). Dabei sticht als positive Neuerungen das Anlegen, Verwalten und Editieren der Listen-Funktion heraus. Die Twitter-Eigenschaft ist erst seit dem letzten Monat Read More

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It's uncanny. When known software gets repackaged for iPhones and iPod Touches and passes through the hallowed gates of the App Store, something happens: Almost invariably, it gets cheaper. Waaay cheaper. Good right? Well, not always. The App Store is a strange new place for developers. Veterans and newcomers engage in bareknuckle combat, driving prices down to levels people wouldn't have imagined charging just a few years ago. Margins drop to razor-thin levels while customers expect apps to get cheaper and cheaper, but with ever increasing quality and depth. For developers, for other software platforms and potentially for the increasingly fickle customers themselves, it's uncharted, and treacherous, territory. But the most bizarre thing of all is—in an effort to keep people in the App Store, and to prevent competitors from getting a toehold in the mobile app business—Apple's charting a course straight into it. "The App Store is a very competitive Read More

Did you know today was Columbus Day?  I know I didn’t until I stumbled upon Boxcar‘s Columbus Day sale. Boxcar is a push-enabled Twitter, Facebook, and email app, at least in a sense.  It isn’t meant to replace any of your favorite apps, it just makes them more useful with Push Notifications.  Boxcar, when it was first released, was able to send you Push Notifications when you received mentions and direct messages via Twitter, but now it is even more powerful with the ability to send Push Notifications for Twitter trends and searches, Facebook notifications and messages, and emails. Boxcar now supports loads of different Twitter apps, including Twittelator, Tweetie, Tweetie 2, Twitterrific, Echofon, SimplyTweet, and many more.  And, of course, it supports the Facebook iPhone app, so no matter which service you choose to use, Boxcar should be able to open it. Boxcar is normally priced at $2.99, but today and Read More

The Iconfactory really takes their time developing iPhone and iPod touch apps to ensure that your time spent with them is as enjoyable as possible. If that wasn’t apparent before with their other two available iPhone apps, Twitterrific and Frenzic, then their new game Ramp Champ should certainly drive this concept home. Ramp Champ is a highly polished iPhone and iPod touch version of skee ball.  This isn’t just any old skee ball game however, The Iconfactory has really put their own unique touch on Ramp Champ. Ramp Champ features touch and flick gameplay that is simple to learn but difficult enough to keep you coming back for more.  To launch a ball, simply flick your finger form the bottom of the screen towards the top.  Your finger’s speed and direction will determine how fast and in what direction your ball will go.  The game contains four built-in ramps, tons of goals, trophies, Read More

The Iconfactory was launched back in 1996 as a repository for icon packs as well as software for creating and using icons. Since then, they've been responsible for the creation of two great iPhone apps, Frenzic [$2.99], a fast-paced puzzle game and Twitteriffic [$3.99 / Free], one of the original premium Twitter clients available on the App Store. Their latest game, Ramp Champ [App Store] takes the arcade game of skee ball, shrinks it down to the iPhone screen, and applies the same thick layer of highly stylized graphical work seen in all the other Iconfactory products. Included in the initial release of Ramp Champ are four different virtual skee ball machines. Clown Town has a carnival theme, Breakwater Bay is underwater, Space Swarm tips its hat at Space Invaders, and The Icon Garden pays homage to Iconfactory's roots in icon design. Controls are simple and shares the same strangely compelling Read More

I’m fickle, always switching allegiances to Twitter apps. I’ve been jumping between Tweetie and SimplyTweet for months. Between them, they meet all my tweeting needs. But, long before they existed, there was Twitterrific. It’s been installed on every one of my iPhones, but rarely used. That’s about to change. Made by Mac stalwart Iconfactory, Twitterrific is the grandfather of iPhone Twitter apps, launched in January 2007 when Twitter was still young, and winning plaudits for its beautiful UI. The latest update, version 2.1, is as gorgeous as ever. Preserving its beauty while squeezing in more features must’ve been painfully challenging, but somehow the dev team at Iconfactory managed to do it. 2.1 brings the usual stability and bug fixes you’d expect. To choose just one notable fix: the significant speed improvement in typing and deleting – on its own – makes this feel like an all-new application. But read on, there’s Read More

Version 2.1 of the popular Twitter client Twitterrific is in the AppStore — both the free and premium versions, that is. The updated app packs tons of improvements, including: In addition to the features mentioned above, Twitterrific 2.1 also fixes several known bugs and is overall much faster now. Price remains the same and it’s 4 bucks ($3.99), and a free, lite version is also available. Here’s the AppStore link. Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your Read More

We here at App Advice are constantly trying to keep you informed and up to date about the latest and greatest iPhone apps and that includes their updates. Below you will find today’s most popular app updates. Enjoy! Ember – UI fixes. [$9.99 - iTunes Link] Sync in a Blink – Updated Google API. Birthday syncing. Bug fixes. [$4.99 - iTunes Link] Twitterrific – Way too many cool new features added. Click the link for all the details! [$Free - iTunes Link] Twitterrific Premium – Way too many cool new features added. Click the link for all the details! [$3.99 - iTunes Link] Wikipanion Plus – Way too many cool new features added. Click the link for all the details! [$4.99 - iTunes Link] Read More

Many of you may have noticed that your Tweeties, Twittelators, and Twitterrifics just weren’t working properly this morning.  Well, it wasn’t just you.  Twitter has confirmed via their blog that they have been hit by a denial-of-service attack, rendering the site unavailable for a couple of hours. Denial-of-service attacks come in many shapes and sizes, but the general idea is to prevent a high-profile sites or services from working properly, and in this case that site is Twitter.  Twitter is back up and running as we speak, and the company has stated that they intend to continue to defend against the attacks and later investigate the cause. According to CNN, this attack is not related to the recent incident where a hacker stole internal documents from the site. Keep watching the Twitter blogfor more updates and details.  Hang in their tweeps! Read More