If you can’t get enough of Twitter, need more ways to use it more often, and you run your iPhone jailbroken, then TwitScreen may be just the little lock screen pal you’re looking for.
It serves up Twitter – or at least a good, little set of basic Twitter capabilities – right on your iPhone lock screen. I coughed up the odd amount of $1.74 the other day and gave the app a little spin. Hit the jump for some very quick impressions and a few screencaps
TwitScreen is a cydget – an iPhone lock screen widget designed to work with the Cydget framework provided by Saurik.
When it is loaded for the first time you need to login to Twitter. On subsequent loads it shows the main public timeline for the account you’re logged in with by default.
TwitScreen claims it competes with many commercial Twitter apps. I think that’s a bit of a stretch, but it does have a fairly long set of features, including:
- Photo/video upload from Camera Roll
- Customizable backgrounds
- Sound notifications
- Lock timeout notification
- Send new tweets, reply, delete, favorite
- View favorite tweets
- Retweet
- Lists
- Search (people, trends, comments)
- DMs (view, reply, send)
- Block / unblock users
- Follow / unfollow users
The app offers a number of options / settings as well
And some other actions not related to Twitter
It takes up pretty much the whole lock screen when it is enabled – I’m not sure if this is its typical behavior, but for me it bumped another lock screen item (Front Contacts) all the way out of sight.
It also takes a fair little while to load at times, which is a big drawback – as generally I don’t want or expect to be waiting on anything at all when I just tap to get to the lock screen. I expect it, and everything on it, to be pretty much instantly responsive.
I find it very busy and cluttered feeling, and just quote ugly overall.
It works though, so those who have been yearning for a Twitter applet on the lock screen may not agree on my ugly / cluttered thoughts, or may just not care.
I personally don’t feel the need for Twitter on my lock screen – I spend more than enough time with it via iPhone and desktop apps.
If TwitScreen sounds like just what’s missing from your lock screen, you can find it in Cydia now, priced at $1.74.
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