Twittelator Pro – Twitter Client (Big Stone Phone $4.99)
This is NOT a universal app, but it is worth buying for both the iPhone and the iPad if you use twitter a lot. This review will be solely about the iPhone version with the iPad version being covered at a later date. The iPad version is available for $4.99 as well. If you are familiar with this app, it is not hard to see why it is worth buying for both devices. There is also a free version available, more than likely it is limited in some way although I am not sure exactly what the limitations are but it certainly will give you a chance to try out the app and decide for yourself. This app is definitely worth the purchase. Every time a new twitter app has been released for the iPhone, I have tried it out. Sometimes to see if I am missing anything by sticking to Twittelator Pro, and other times because those apps promise some great new feature. This includes of course the official Twitter app, when it was first released and since then, I have tried it out a few times. However every single time, I end up back with Twittelator Pro.
This app has had a lot of thought put into it ever since it first debuted back in 2008. It started off as a feature rich, but unpolished app (visually) and has grown into a very nice, very functional and very feature rich app. I use it quite regularly on both my iPad and iPhone. A lot of the features in this app were developed and supported even before twitter released support for them. For example geo tagging tweets, or even lists are features that this app implemented in one way or another prior to twitter doing so. I have a long list of features for this app so I’ll get right into them now.
FEATURES:
- View separate tabs for each timeline including friends, mentions, directs and any number of custom feeds.
- Customize the navigation bar to include any tabs you’d like for fast access to the most important views.
- View all of your lists and follow them easily right from within this app.
- View all tweets associated with a specific list.
- A special misc view allows you to easily follow the last search you did.
- Geo tag your tweets.
- Add images/video/audio/maps to your tweets.
- Automatically links to your favorite media service for storing media and tweeting about it. You select which service to use, I am using Posterous.
- View images inline with the tweet for select media sharing services.
- Automatically breaks a long tweet down into multiple tweets or using twit longer.
- Links directly to your bit.ly account allowing you to store links with bit.ly for viewing later as well as going back later and tracking stats on your links.
- One click link shortening using bit.ly service.
- One click tweet shortening turning specific words into shorter version( too = 2, you = U, etc.)
- Add multiple accounts and then easily switch between the accounts.
- Email tweets or links, open them in safari or send to a link saving service such as read it later and instapaper.
- Send tweets to OmniFocus if installed on the current device.
- Customize the look and feel including changing fonts, font sizes, background colors and text colors.
- Easily search for tweets based on location, name or keywords.
- View all nearby tweets on a map or in list format.
- See a list of the tweets from around your general physical location.
- Mute select tweeters, this allows you to continue to follow a tweeter without seeing his/her tweets. This is particularly useful for some who tweet jut a little too much but that you dont want to unfollow.
- Block or report users as spam.
- View stats on each tweeter including follow cost.
- Publish right to Facebook in addition to twitter.
- Save/bookmark tweets individually or in groups
- View if a tweeter is following you.
- Change your settings for SMS notifications (twitter based) on a user by user basis.
- View and save images
- Print tweets.
The only feature missing from this app is push notifications. But fortunately there are a variety of services out there that handle this for you, which makes it acceptable to not have the feature in exchange for the value I get out of this particular app.
There are of course many other features and probably a bunch I am missing here simply because I may use it differently than you. But these are definitely the features that matter most to me. AND every time I have run into an issue with this app, I have been able to get quick and easy answers from the developer on how to resolve the issue. Yet another reason this app is #1.
