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Birdfeed: A slick Twitter client for your iPhone
Over the past year, there's been something of a gold-rush for Twitter clients on the iPhone. From Twitterrific to Twitterfon, Tweetie to the recently-launched TweetDeck, there's a bucketload of apps to let you use Twitter on the go. Today sees the launch of another challenger for space on your homescreen: Birdfeed [iTunes Link]: "A very nice Twitter client for your iPhone".In trying Birdfeed this evening, it's clear that a huge amount of time has been spent on the application from the exceptional icons (similar in style to those in another Download Squad favourite-app, Things) to some smart touches. Here's just some that caught my eye:
- a small dot in the 'Compose Tweet' button to show the presence of a draft
- a super-handy 'home' button that takes you back to your original list of tweets when you're drilling-down in the options
- the auto-loading of more tweets once you reach the bottom of the list
- integration with services like Favrd.
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Subscribe to commentsSeth RubensteinJun 29th 2009 10:01PM
Above all those options is the fact that via their twitter profile BirdFeed has confirmed that push notifications are in the works. Where as the boys from Twitterrific over at The Icon Factory say it cant be done it's been proven that it can rather easily. Well done on BirdFeeds part.
Master BruceJun 29th 2009 10:48PM
Push notification would be excellent! I think that might be the only thing that would cause me to spend money on a twitter app
MichaelJun 30th 2009 7:47AM
It's hard for me to justify $4.99 for an iPhone Twitter client that doesn't have push notifications when TweetDeck is free and Tweetie is only $2.99, and both are extremely feature-rich.
Jash SayaniJun 30th 2009 8:06AM
I agree. I was using Twitterific before, which is a great Twitter app for the iPhone and extremely feature-rich. Now I moved to TweetDeck which is a bit better in terms of functionality. Both are Free. (Twitterific has Ads in Free version).
This app seems useless to me when I compare it to other competitors....
bahadirJul 3rd 2009 8:54AM
Where as the boys from Twitterrific over at The Icon Factory say it cant be done it's been proven that it can rather easily.
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