So last week, Twitterrific 2 for the iPhone was released. The Iconfactory guys had lagged a little behind other competitors due to the fact that they launched first, but have definitely managed to catch up and surpass the others in the features department for the most part.
What I think I love the most is the single ‘action button’ that allows for future features to come in pretty easily into future updates. Pressing the one action button allows you to star something, reply to a person, view their profile, and so much more. Additionally, you can customize ‘tap shortcuts’ to quickly do things you do frequently (star an item, view a profile, etc). I hope that future releases allow direct messages to be allowed as a ‘tap shortcut’.
Nothing’s perfect though, but there are only 3 things that jump out as problems to me:
- No ‘go to user’ feature. Sometimes I want to quickly bring up a profile that I don’t follow. How would I do that in Twitterrific 2?
- No ‘view more’ feature. I’d like to be able to view more than just 100 tweets.
- Selected tweet loses focus on scroll.
I’d like to think that most of those are going to be addressed in a future update. Anyway, Twitterrific costs less than $5 in the iTunes store, or has an ad supported free version. So give it a go.
