Favourite Twitter App for iPhone – Echofon!

Well the first thing I had to do after getting my iPhone was to make sure I was able to communicate with the rest of the world effectively and comfortably. (okay fine i downloaded gothere.sg first but that was Yang’s doings)

I tried Ubertwitter. It was chio, I liked it, but….. It didnt continue from where I left off and instead loaded the newer tweets first. FAIL.

So I downloaded all the apps I could find that continued from where you left off, under the suggestion of my friends.

1. Twitter for iPhone
2. Twitterific
3. Seesmic
4. Echofon
5. TwitBird

At first I really liked Twitterific. It has a pretty interface and it screams “YOU’RE TAGGED IN THIS TWEET” and stuff like that. Then later I realized that it doesn’t allow me to tag people (auto complete of user names) and I decided I didn’t love it that much any more.

I’ve deleted everything else and am left with only Echofon because it is simply one of the best apps out there for Twitter, namely for these reasons (to me):

- Continues from where you left off (last read)
- Auto complete usernames (even if you typed the person’s display name instead of username it can still locate that person!!)
- Good reading font size
- Highlights the tweets you’re mentioned in
- Loads fast
- Loads your direct messages in conversation style
- Images loads fast as well
- Displays lists, and there’s a search (not that i use them at all)
- You can choose from 3 photo services (tweetphoto, twitpic and flickr)
- Choose from 4 themes
- Add multiple accounts

My only grumble is that I have to read all the way up to refresh the tweets, but it’s pretty fast a refresh, so this is a minor flaw to overlook. I’ve used this since it’s previously known name, TwitterFox and it was a reliable firefox add on to have.

Oh yes. I don’t really like the logo nor the name too, but it works well so… Function over form!