Comparison of Free Twitter Apps in iPhone


I have iPhone 3G which is running on iOS 4.2.1. Since it has a slow processor and low memory, some apps crash all the time. Official Twitter app, “Twitter for iPhone” drove me crazy last weekend. So I decided to switch to a new app.

I tested some of popular apps in App Store with my own criteria. I also re-installed official app and tested it too.

Please note: The tests are not finished yet. Since I do not have an iPhone anymore, I will not be able to finish these tests.

Twitter Echofon for Twitter Seesmic for iPhone TweetDeck for iPhone Twitterrific for Twitter TwitBird free for Twitter HootSuite for Twitter
Twitter Echofon for Twitter Seesmic TweetDeck for iPhone Twitterrific for iPhone TwitBird free for Twitter HootSuite for Twitter
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Performance (out of 5) 3 5 4 5 4 3 4
Ease of use (out of 5) 5 5 4 6 4 4 4
Notifications
Mentions ?
Direct messages ? ?
RT’d tweets of me ?
Faved tweets of me ?
Supported features
Geolocation ?
URL shortening – bit.ly ?
Image upload – TwitPic ?
ReadItLater ?
Multiple accounts ?

“Performance” and “ease of use” was scored by my own observations.