7 Underhyped Web And Mobile Twitter Apps
Nov 12 2009 
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When I started using Twitter 2 years ago, outside of the site itself, Twhirl and Twitterrific were two of the top Twitter clients available. Twhirl even went as far as incorporating other platforms like FriendFeed and Seesmic Video, making it one of the most popular desktop clients for managing the latest social networks.
Fast forward to 2009 and we have leaders like TweetDeck, Twitterific, Hootsuite, Cotweet, and Seesmic dominating desktops, while their mobile counterparts, Tweetie 2, UberTwitter, and Twidroid dominate mobile devices. I have no doubts that they’ll maintain strong holds on their markets, but there are new Twitter clients that have the potential to make waves in 2010.
7 Twitter Clients of 2010
- Brizzly
Brizzly has been making waves for its innovative UI and recent Facebook support. It’s bubbling to the top and I wouldn’t be surprised to see it usurp one of the top 10 spots. - SimplyTweet
With built-in push notifications and amazing functionality, SimplyTweet is becoming a popular recommendation for iPhone Twitter clients. Right now, it’s giving Tweetie 2 and TweetDeck serious competition in the iPhone app market. - Gravity
The best symbian Twitter client I’ve ever experienced. Gravity has the potential to rank high on the list of mobile twitter clients for 2010 amongst Nokia mobile owners. - PeopleBrowsr
PeopleBrowsr has become so much more than just a Twitter client. It’s fast becoming the recommended client for monitoring social media. - TweetGenuis
I’m starting to see TweetGenius make quite the splash amongst BlackBerry users. With such a refreshing UI and no ads BlackBerry users have many reasons to be excited about this mobile twitter client. - TwitterBerry
Another Blackberry Twitter client making a splash is TwitterBerry. Though it has one of the most user friendly formats, it’s plagued with a lot of problems such as draining mobile battery life. Improvement on such issues could help increase the popularity of this mobile client. - PockeTwit
Future Windows Mobile owners will love PockeTwit for its simple design and excellent functionality. With kinetic scrolling and side menus, PockeTwit brings some impressive features to the thable.
The Future Of Twitter Clients
I also notice a shift in usage on Twitter to other web services that allow you to simply push information to your twitter stream or monitor Twitter streams for valuable information. PeopleBrowsr is already pushing innovations in social media monitoring. However, we’ll save that discussion for a later date. Here’s what we can consider now:
- What new Twitter clients are popping up on your radar?
- Can current leading Twitter clients hold their positions?
- How do you see the future for the class of 2010 Twitter clients?
Looking forward to reading your thoughts in the comments!
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I'm starting to see a lot of BlackBerry users use Uber Twitter because of the problems that you mention with TwitterBerry.
On the Android, Twidroid, still rocks only because it was one of the best first. But Swiftapp is a pretty good contender, they just have to get to enabling multiple accounts as Twidroid Pro does. It's really lightning fast.
I keep trying to like Nambu (on the desktop anyway) but sometimes it just feels clunks when it shouldn't. I'm leaning more toward Brizzly nowadays (at least at home).
This is an awesome list! I am loving Tweetie on my iPhone but (after reading this) I'm going to start trying other applications. This is why I love you Corvida!
I hadn't heard of half of these, thank you Corvida! It's not new but I like the stripped down Blackbird for Blackberry. You lose facial recognition without avatars, but it's faster and more usable than TwitterBerry (which I despise.)
I'm starting to look at People Browser this week. For my iPhone, I want something simple most of the time that will just tweet on the run, but for my desktop, there needs to be a lot of functionality. I want Facebook at the very list.
I think we will definitely see the trend go towards desktop Twitter clients that add other social networking sites into it. I want one stop shopping!
I've tried Brizzly and keep hearing people rave about it, though I don't find anything special about it personally. PeopleBrowsr takes me into feature overload! I want to like it but it just does so much that it makes my brain hurt! So far I'm loving Hootsuite (for the web) and Tweetie 2 (for iphone/ipod touch).
*duplicate*
It all depends on twitter list integration, at least for me ;)
I would like to add TweetMiner to the list. This application is rather new, but I absolutely love it and I think you will too. A friend introduced this app to me and I am addicted to it. Will look into the other applications as well. Thanks!
Thanks for the suggestion on TweetMiner Latosha. I'll be checking this out today!
There are plenty of clients that are starting to support Twitter lists. Seesmic for Windows is a great example of how to integrate Twitter Lists into a client
Outside of the usual Twitter apps for the iPhone you might also want to check out Qstatus: http://bit.ly/4xc3mi
It's a quick app for updating your Twitter account on the go. No stream load times or anything. Just tweet and go.
I'm going to have to look into BlackBird for Blackberry. Thanks for the update on this Steven
I've been a PockeTwit user for over a year now, love it.
I think http://ul.timate.info should be added to the list. It integrates with Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare and is a very lightweight Firefox plugin.
Also, as far as TwitterBerry is concerned I have both TwitterBerry and UberTwitter on my blackberry and prefer UberTwitter… you should check it out!
I think http://ul.timate.info should be added to the list. It integrates with Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare and is a very lightweight Firefox plugin.
Also, as far as TwitterBerry is concerned I have both TwitterBerry and UberTwitter on my blackberry and prefer UberTwitter… you should check it out!
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