Comments on: New iPhone Apps: TweetDeck

By: patrickj

patrickj — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:24:31 +0000

Alicia – glad you're liking it so much. I can see the usefulness of the sync feature in terms of the groups stuff, but for someone like me who's not a user of groups, not sure what else it needs to sync that is not already done by Twitter itself. DMs, mentions, followers, people you follow etc. should all be there in any good Twitter client on desktop or phone.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:13:06 +0000

Lesley – that all makes good sense. If you use that groups feature, then that's a huge plus point. I need to give that a whirl. Agree that from the UI perspective it lags well behind the other two. Oh, and I also really dislike dark backgrounds and wish their were lighter options.

I also have a feeling that it may be easier for the other two to add features, than it will be for TweetDeck to radically overhaul their UI …

By: Lesley Sigall

Lesley Sigall — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:04:19 +0000

I like the Tweetdeck iPhone app only because of the group and sync capabilities. I do use the groups feature and so the multi-column support in the iPhone app makes it a lot easier for me. But other than that, I don't like it that much. I find the UI too dark, so wish that it was customizable. I wish it had landscape mode for typing tweets. And I really wish it had Instapaper support. From a UI perspective, I think Twitterrific and Tweetie have it all over Tweetdeck. Except for the groups feature, which right now, for me, is outweighing the negatives.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:53:20 +0000

James – that's an odd one. I'm running it on 3.0 and I've never seen an error of that kind …

By: James

James — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:23:13 +0000

I noticed after I updated to 3.0, that now when I start the app a pop up window tell's me that I don't have internet or if I do it's REAL weak, even though I have full signal bar's and have 3G………

By: Alicia Bankhofer

Alicia Bankhofer — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:07:32 +0000

I really enjoy using the desktop tweetdeck because of its UI so I'm thrilled with the iPhone app which will probably replace twitterfon as my app of choice.

The sync feature is a rare and useful feature for those of us who tweet at home then go out and would love to take our settings and stuff with us.

The group feature is also good for me cos I have a FAVE group of tweeters I don't want to miss so to have this on the go is great so I can see what my friends are up to.