Tweetie – Favorite Twitter App

At long last, atebits, the programmers behind my favorite iPhone Twitter app, (also named Tweetie) have made one for the Mac. (Sorry Window’s users – no Windows version is currently planned). And of the numerous Twitter-ing Apps I’ve been playing with, trying to find one I actually liked, Tweetie has gone and taken the slot, and the reserved spot on my dock.

Why’d I choose Tweetie? What makes it better then say, Twitterific or Eventbox (my old app)?

First is functionality. Tweetie has a few things that make it significantly nicer then anything else I’ve used:

• Conversations – take a tweet, and double click, and you can see all the tweets and @tweets that lead up to it – saving you from following something tweet by tweet back to the source. Very handy.
• Search – Search also is quite powerful – you can search your tweets, your friends tweets, and the entire twitter for trends of tweets, then comment on them as you please.
• Multiple Accounts – I use two twitter accounts – my own and the official Teentechblog one. Tweetie allows me to keep both up, and switch between them with just a click. Very smooth and impressive.

So those are a few functionality reasons. But a part of it is also design. Tweetie is one of those apps like Stickies and iTunes that live perpetually open on my computer. Tweetie looks and feels like a native app, as well as running very fast – never slows down.

Also, Tweetie tracks all the menu’s you’re going through in a Timeline on top – i.e.: if you’re on the homepage, and check out a conversation you had with a friend, then you have to send that buddy a tweet on something else he said, going to his feed, then to another conversation from there – it’s all tracks on top, and a click on any segment will return you to that point. Very cool, and useful.

Tweetie is available in 2 flavors: free, which, although add supported, has all the features of the paid version, as well as the $15 paid version. Being a teen, who doesn’t have $15 to spend when there’s a free version around, I’m currently using the free, and the adds are fine (popping up in the feed once in a while). So at the very least give it a whirl.

Oh, and check us out now on twitter: teentechblog.