20 Great Twitter Apps for iPhone

Twitter has seen a phenomenal growth in the past few months. Among other things, the credit also goes to applications that allow us to access Twitter from our mobile phones. Recently we have seen an increasing number of Twitter applications for the iPhone and today we are reviewing twenty great ones. So here we go:

Tweetie

Tweetie is one of the best Twitter clients for the iPhone. Tweetie lets you easily manage several Twitter accounts at once, survey all of Twitter, from your own timeline and mentions to the favorite tweets of your followers and friends. It also lets you read, tweet, favorite, follow, save to Instapaper and more even when you’re offline and offers many more features.

Twittervision

Twittervision is a real-time geographic visualization of posts to Twitter for the iPhone. You can watch what’s going on around the world in real time, find people near you, and also search the Twitter conversation feed for keywords and terms. You can also update Twitter with your current location, discover what people are talking about and view web links right inside the Twittervision browser application.

Tweetsville

Tweetsville for iPhone features a very lengthy timeline and also fetches all of the tweets since your last visit. It lets you search the newest hot topics using Trends and allows you access to all your direct messages in an SMS like interface, so you can view your past conversations with each Twitter user. You can also search the Twitterverse, view details of tweets and much more.

Twitfire

Twitfire makes posting to Twitter easy and powerful. You may take a picture with your camera or select an existing picture from your library and Twitfire will upload it to twitpic.com and insert the URL in your tweet. Browse the web and insert links using the built in web browser, Twitfire will automatically shorten the URL before inserting it into your tweet, send your current location to Twitter, insert a Google Map URL to your current location and let you browse and reply to your followers. It also offers a cool shake to erase function.

Twapper

Twapper lets you monitor Twitter feeds from your phone’s browser—a nice alternative to constant SMS alerts. Twapper, designed for mobile browsers, lets you view and bookmark the messages from any Twitter user.

iTweets

iTweets is a twitter application for iPhone mainly focusing on minimalism yet supporting Twitter specific features. iTweets is completely modifiable through the standard settings page. You can alter the colour of the tweets based on the sort so that you can simply classify important tweets like replies and direct tweets.

Twiltr

Twiltr’s core function is to let you filter your tweet stream. So even though you can’t make groups, you can have a filtered view of tweets from the people you really want to follow, as well as save keyword filters (i.e. searches).

LaTwit

LaTwit is a micro-blogging client that lets you read and send posts on Twitter or any Laconi.ca based social networking site. Worthy of note is multiple account support, URL shorteners, Ping.fm posting, the ability to hide users, custom font sizes, and exchangeable tabs.

Twittelator

Twittelator is packed with over 200 features: Email, Retweet, and copy tweets, Trending Topics, Autorefresh, Unlimited drafts and offline tweeting, handle multiple Twitter accounts and more. The app may be rich in functionality (there’s a help button, ideal for emergency situations), but it is not very user-friendly and eventually, might be a disappointment to many.

Twinkle

Twinkle is a Twitter app for iPhone which lets you discover, connect, and send messages to people nearby, upload photos and update your Twitter account.  Contact old friends and make new ones, all with Twinkle, the location-aware network for the iPhone.

Twitterific

Twitterific is the award-winning mobile Twitter client that’s user-friendly and full of well-designed features like, managing multiple accounts, searching Twitter quickly, filtering tweets, and much more.

Twitterfon

This app focuses on providing basic features in a quick, stable package. There are only four screens in the app: a stream of tweets from the people you follow; replies to you; direct messages; and search (including location-based search). TwitterFon feels slightly bare but for purist tweeters, it’s the ideal package.

Gyazickr

Gyazickr is a Twitter app for iPhone specially for people who like to share their photos with other twitter friends. Take a snap using your iPhone and post it to twitter directly. You can also opt to crop photos and have photos hosted on Gyazickr, TwitPic, or Tumblr.

Twitterboost

This app frequently suggests a random twitterboost user and gives you the option to follow or skip them with one tap.

Tweeter

All you can tweet. However, Tweeter gives you no image upload or Twitter viewing options.

Ziibii

Ziibii ropes updates from many of the most popular social networks and media sites, allowing you to check your feeds on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, as well as add feeds from the Web, on a single iPhone app.

Nambu

Nambu’s iPhone app brings popular desktop client features to your phone. You can fully engage with Twitter and FriendFeed, update Identi.ca, post to Ping.fm, upload to pic.im (and view images), and create tr.im URLs. This app is certainly worth checking out.

NatsuLion

NatsuLion’s got all the basics covered – though users would love to have the facility to add photos and retweet. One awesome feature is the option users have to view their Twitter friends’ conversations.

JustUpdate

This app provides a quick loading (on edge and WiFi) field to post updates to Twitter without having to pay for an SMS, complete with a characters remaining counter. JustUpdate also attempts to ensure that during a network malfunction, or a Twitter failure, your update isn’t lost. This app has no follower feed, no friends, and no features: just a text box for you to post directly to Twitter.

TweetDeck

TweetDeck is your mobile browser for staying connected with what’s happening on Twitter and Facebook from your iPhone. TweetDeck shows you everything you want to see at once, so you can stay organized and up to the minute regardless of where you are. You can make groups, explore Twitter, handle multiple accounts, and easily post your tweets or share photos, videos, links and much more.

With these Twitter apps, you can do almost anything from your iPhone that you can do from a desktop or web-based application. Packed with all the advanced features, these apps give your mobile phone complete control over your social network. Do you access Twitter from your iPhone? What is your Favorite Twitter app for the iPhone.