Tweetdeck comes to the iPhone
Until now, the best iPhone application for handling multiple accounts has been Tweetie. It’s a terrific app, organizing your accounts into multiple pages so that they don’t interfere with each other. Not only is it good at handling multiple accounts, it’s a very good and intuitive iPhone Twitter application.
Just a few minutes ago, Tweetdeck released their app for the iPhone. Tweetdeck’s been known for being the first desktop Twitter application to allow you to organize the people you follow into columns of your own choosing. It’s a great app, but I had issues with it since I could never get the devs to do one simple thing: notify you only if you got a reply or a DM. It either notified you on new tweets from everyone, or none at all. I found that to be extremely frustrating since I like to keep my Twitter app in the background when I’m busy and bring it to the front only if I have a reply. Since the devs never did this, I moved on to Twhirl and Seesmic Desktop.
Now Tweetdeck is out for the iPhone and already I’m in love with it. The app handles multiple accounts with ease, and also allows you to do Tweetdeck’s trademark feature of organizing people into separate columns.
When the app starts, you put in your Twitter credentials, but before you get started, you’re asked to create an account on tweetdeck’s servers. I hope this allows you to save your column settings between the iPhone ad the desktop app which is due later tonight. That would save an enormous amount of trouble setting up your app’s looks since all you’d have to do is sync them.
When you’re done with that, you’re shown a zoomed out look of your columns. You can zoom them into 100% view by tapping on it.
If you want to create a new group, just click “Add Column” in the middle. The app goes out and seems to get the people you follow, but unfortunately it did not get a complete list of friends and therefore I had to deal with a partial list. Once the list comes up, you simply tap their name to add them to your list. If a person is not on that list, you can add them manually.
When you have multiple columns, arrows appear in the bottom corners, telling you that you can move from one column to the other. I’d prefer simply swiping the iPhone to do this to save real estate.
A neat trick? Shake your iPhone to refresh!
I’m going to play with the app more, but I think I found my new favorite iPhone Twitter application.
Things I’d like to see:
A different color for replies to me.
Black text on white background. The black background is annoying my eyes.
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oi mate.. I am equally impressed. I've already moved it to page 1 of the iPhone…
You can already grab the new desktop version from their website..