iPhone App Review: Twitterrific is even superior than the desktop version
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Sometimes Download Squad has to concur to disagree about a new app, and this is one of those times. Even though some on the team have knocked the iPhone version of Twitterrific, I actually care about it better than its big brother on the desktop. What can the iPhone version do that the desktop version can’t? Well, for one, it can pop Twitter open within the app - sometimes you want to scope someone’s page (to see what a friend was replying to, for example). I haven’t seen another iPhone app that uses the same trick to browse web pages without quitting and switching to Safari.
Just like the browser trick, the rest of the UI is elegant. Tweets look great and are simple to read - the premium version lets you switch to a lighter theme that also looks good, if that’s up your alley. @reply links are clickable, and short profiles are viewable without opening a webpage at all. I’ll grant that there seem to be some issues with icon caching - when a tweet goes off-screen, the icon has to be reloaded when you scroll back to it — but I’m not sure if that’s an iPhone issue or a Twitterrific one. Throw in the capability to update your location with the iPhone’s built in location services, and this is an app that uses the platform to its fullest.
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