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Twitter 360

Saleh Alzaid — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:15:47 +0000

Twitter 360 is a cool iPhone 3GS app that visualizes your Twitter friends tweets located in your nearby environment. It uses the Augmented Reality functionality using the iPhone camera.

You can tweet with the application and view nearby tweets of your friends using the iPhone camera. For further tweets you can view them in Google Maps. More details in the video and the screen shots.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Brilliant idea
Very simple interface
Provides different views for different distances (using iPhone cam for nearby tweets, or Google Maps for further tweets)

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IM+

Saleh Alzaid — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:36:29 +0000

IM+ is a mobile chat app supports Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, AIM, Jabber, ICQ, and Skype! All in one app! And supports huge range of mobile phones devices like iPhone, Nokia, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Android, Samsung, LG, Motorola, SonyEricsson, and any Java phone!

IM+ is free to use for 7 days only, or you can buy it here. It’s similar to Fring but supports more chat agent and social networks (like MySpace) and more mobile phone platforms.

See this review

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very pretty interface	sometimes crashes
Supports wide range of IM/chat clients
Supports wide range of mobile platforms
All your chat friends/social networks in one app!

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Dabr

Saleh Alzaid — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:55:42 +0000

Dabr is Twitter web client for mobiles and can work with any mobile connects to internet. Its interface is very simple to use and has lots of features.

At the top, you have different pages of your friends tweets, replies, direct messages, Twitter search, trends, friends profiles, and favorites. There’s also a page for uploading pictures to TwitPic.

One cool feature of Dabr is the ability to change the interface to best fit your phone screen. In the settings page, there’s an interface for iPhone (touch phones), normal phones, text only, PC/Labtop, and work safe interface (which is a very simple minimal not colored interface to make sure work in all mobiles).

For each tweet, there are options to reply, retweet, DM or to favorite the tweet.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Has OAuth as option for Twitter login
Has many interfaces supporting different types of mobile phones screens
Ability to load pics to TwitPic easily
Good alternative for Twitter web version.

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Swift

Saleh Alzaid — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:11:23 +0000

Swift is a simple Twitter app for Android phones. Swift is free and has number of features like photo and video uploading. Swift is still under development and new features are added in every release. You keep updated with latest features via the Swift Goolge Group.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Simple easy to use interface	Still doesn’t have that much of sophisticated features (e.g. trends)
Totally free!
Small in size and fast

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Twibble Mobile

Saleh Alzaid — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:25:34 +0000

Twibble Mobile is a Java mobile Twitter app supporting wide range of mobile devices (Nokia, BlackBerry or any Java enabled mobile).

Twibble mobile has many features like uploading pics with TwitPic or any media (pic, text, audio and video!) with Mobypicture service. Also it supports identi.ca/laconi.ca instances. View all features of Twibble Mobile here. Not all these features come with the free version of Twibble Mobile. The full version is for 4.9 Euros.

Twibble was featured on many major websites like TechCrunch, Mashable, and BBC online.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Support wide range of mobile phones	The free version shows only 10 tweets
Has many features (including uploading pics, audios, texts, and videos!)	Not easy to use interface
identi.ca/laconi.ca integration

Related Twitter Apps

Echofon (Formerly TwitterFon)

Saleh Alzaid — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:30:13 +0000

Echofon (formerly TwitterFon) is a simple and easy to use iPhone Twitter app with many features.

There’s a free version comes with TwitPic integration, video uploading, shortened URLs previewing and other features.

The pro version (for $4.99) comes with much extra features like supporting multiple Twitter account, push notifications , sync Echofon iPhone with Echofon Firefox plugin (TwitterFox), ad free, bit.ly and Flickr integration, and others. Check all features of both versions here.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very simple interface	Doesn’t support accepting follow requests to private Twitter account (has to be done from the Twitter web)
Sync with Echofon Firefox plugin (TwitterFox) – Pro version
Supports push notifications – Pro version

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Twikini

Saleh Alzaid — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:29:17 +0000

Twikini is a powerful Twitter client for Windows Mobile phones.

Twikini is written in native C++ programming language which makes it a fast app. It supports uploading pictures using TwitPic and different URL shortening services. One cool feature is integration with Windows Media Player by tweeting the song you are listening to plus the artist name.

Bad that Twikini is free for 14 days only as tria, or you can buy it for $4.95 only.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very pretty interface	Free for 14 days trial
Windows Media Player integration
Fast application
Can update Twitter location (requires GPS device)

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TinyTwitter

Saleh Alzaid — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:03:51 +0000

TinyTwitter is a simple Twitter client for any Java enabled phones (like Nokia, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile phones, Pocket PCs, SmartPhones, Motorola, LG, and others). Tiny Twitter doesn’t have much features like other mobile Twitter client. It’s minimal client and free as well. Check all features here.

Review on a Windows Mobile phone:

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very simple interface	Doesn’t support Unicode characters (only English)
Free Twitter app	Doesn’t support multiple accounts
Supports wide range of mobile phones
Supports sending a direct message to multiple people

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App Notifications

Saleh Alzaid — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:02:51 +0000

App Notifications is an iPhone app that provide real-time notifications for Twitter, GMail, Google Voice, RSS feeds, and many other services. Just register an account with appnotifications.com, download the app from the App Store ($1.99), and start being updated instantly!

It’s very similar to Boxcar app, however Boxcar supports Twitter notifications only and through specific Twitter iPhone clients (covered in the Boxcar post).

App Notifications provides an API for the developers to apply instant notifications to custom services!

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Support many services: Twitter, GMail, RSS feeds, and others
Provides an API for developers
Great idea for wide support of push notifications to iPhones

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Pocketwit

Saleh Alzaid — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:01:47 +0000

Pocketwit is a free open-source Twitter client for Windows Mobile devices (PocketPCs and SmartPhones.) with number of functions. The application is open-source under MIT license and built with .NET 2.0 compact platform.

The application has number of notable features like updating your location (requires GPS), grouping your friends, multiple accounts supporting, sharing images using different photo sharing services (TwitPix, Yfrog…), taking and uploading a photo from your mobile camera, and long tweeting using shorttext.com. It supports identi.ca accounts as well.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Has many features	Bad looking user interface
Free and open-source