Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Echofon vs Twitter app?
- Thread starter mattdo93
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
I downloaded the official Twitter app lately (version 3.3.5) and it seemed buggy to me:
- not all tweets were shown in the timeline (on internet and in Twitterrific I could see them all)
- it takes a long time before user setting were synchronized
- it crashed within a day
- it showed a white screen on some occassions
- all in all it felt a bit laggy
Is this something in this version 3.3.5? Or just a one-off? I have a complete standard iPhone 4.
I downloaded Twitterrific instead and that works perfect and fast.
- not all tweets were shown in the timeline (on internet and in Twitterrific I could see them all)
- it takes a long time before user setting were synchronized
- it crashed within a day
- it showed a white screen on some occassions
- all in all it felt a bit laggy
Is this something in this version 3.3.5? Or just a one-off? I have a complete standard iPhone 4.
I downloaded Twitterrific instead and that works perfect and fast.
I'm using the original twitter app. Don't trust these Third-Party-Apps
That IS a third party app. It used to be called Tweetie. It IS a third party app.
It WAS a third party app, but then it was purchased by Twitter and the developer was hired to maintain it. That makes it now the official Twitter app.
I used to use Echofon, but I like the official app better. It feels nicer and more refined. I am a casual twitter user, though.
Recently I tried Twitter for Iphone, Twitterrific and Echofon. IMO, Echofon is the best of the three.
But now I got Tweetlogix and this app has the best of the three apps mentioned before and more! Also has a good UI.
Tweetlogix doesn't have native push however, but I'm one of the few people who don't care much about that
But now I got Tweetlogix and this app has the best of the three apps mentioned before and more! Also has a good UI.
Tweetlogix doesn't have native push however, but I'm one of the few people who don't care much about that
The twitter app has a few quirks I don't like. The most irritating issue to me: you can't retweet and comment. You can "quote" and comment but it's not the same as a retweet w/ comment. Trust me, I want to use the twitter zoo but that one small thing bothers me.
It would be the OFFICIAL Twitter app if Twitter had made it and developed it. There's a difference.
So now that Google has bought Motorola, to use the analogy here, would Motorola now be the "official" Android handset?
So the real question is whether the developer was hired as an employee or consultant. And if so, did he redo the application? If he wrote it back from scratch while being employed under Twitter, then it's an official Twitter application regardless of Tweetie in the past. And if he reused it but still is an employee, does that make the iPhone/iPod touch version third party while the iPad portion is official Twitter?
Anyway, back to the topic, I tried both and I prefer the <insert whatever term you use for the Twitter-[insert approved, official, etc.] application you know I'm talking about>. Don't get me wrong. Both applications are great, so in the end it came down to aesthetics in terms of an icon that looks Twitter-official and how it says Twitter everywhere instead of something like Echophon or Twitterific.