Speaking about missing features, let’s talk this straight, Twitterrific doesn’t open iTunes links, doesn’t support img.ly pictures and doesn’t allow you to quote tweets. I found quite annoying that you can’t disable this sound thing though, together with the lack of settings of any sort. ![]() Once you’ve sent a new tweet a (sexy) notification bar will pop up at the top of the screen, and if you decide to refresh the whole timeline Twiterrific will play the usual “bird” sound notification. This first release doesn’t allow you to upload pictures. Tweeting itself is simple: you just haven to hit the compose button and a modal window will appear on screen (over the timeline) allowing you enter text, links and shorten links indeed. To refresh the timeline, tweet, view your personal profile and stop refreshing, there are some buttons in the top right corner. Tweets in the timeline are assigned a different color depending on their “nature”: your own tweets are green, mentions are red, normal tweets are black-ish and direct messages are blue. I would have liked the possibility to collapse every tab in the sidebar but by now you can only expand and collapse the Trends tab. From the sidebar, you can also search and access saved searches, your lists and trends. You can change from the all tweets view (the timeline) to mentions, messages and favorites tweets in the top section of the sidebar. The actual tweets aren’t located in “bubbles” (like in many iPhone apps), but it’s a simple list made of these “cells”, pretty large cells actually, that include the tweet, the user picture and some buttons. You can’t hide the split view’s sidebar, instead. Of course, with the portrait mode you’ll have more space for tweets, as the popover can be hidden. But anyway, the interface principles don’t change: there’s a left sidebar that contains all the navigation options to let you use Twitter, and whether you’re using it inside a popover (portrait) or split view (landscape) it’s just the same sidebar. Personally, I’m finding myself using the landscape mode more than the vertical orientation, so it’s split view for me. Once you’ve entered your account credentials, you have to decide if you want to use the application in landscape or portrait mode. The free version of Twitterrific allows you to enter only one Twitter account and it’s ad supported, while the Pro one enables multiple accounts and removes advertisement from the timeline. Let’s take a look at the app anyway, and see how it ultimately works and whether it might work for you just as good as it works for me. More importantly, Twitterrific feels good - and that’s the great achievement in my opinion. The Iconfactory designers really made a great job, considering that they didn’t even have an iPad to test the app on. ![]() It’s dark, in the timeline, clear in the sidebar, dark again in the popovers. Twitterrific for the iPad looks good, and I think the UI design is the first thing you’ll notice. It definitely provides more and new interactions we should consider, thus forgetting about the old methods we’ve gotten used to for iPhone software. The “ bigger screen” is indeed what makes iPad apps really stand out from their counterparts (when available) and serves as a way to really provide more options and functions. As I started looking for decent Twitter apps to install and review, the most obvious choice was to give a try to Twitterrific from the Iconfactory already out in the App Store in its free version with the possibility to upgrade in-app to the premium version.Īfter 24 hours of intensive usage of the app, here are my thoughts about it.įirst of all, I have to admit that reviewing an iPad app is much more difficult than talk about an app for the iPhone. Of course I searched for RSS apps, word processors, PDF readers but most of all, Twitter clients. When I was waiting for my iPad to arrive in Italy, I spent a good amount of time browsing the iPad App Store looking for some great apps to install and try.
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