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I have had a serious on again, off again relationship with Twitter. I didn’t really understand why anyone would use Twitter over an IM client or a blog post on their personal blog. Now I realize that Twitter is not only replacing personal blogs all around and IM chats, it’s also denting the importance of search engines and has become almost a necessity for anyone in any industry that involves an online presence. That said, I need Twitter and I am back on again. I actually run 6 Twitter accounts at the same time. 1 personal, 4 websites, and 1 that I don’t choose to make public. (Yes, you got me, I am the real shaq… wait, never mind, no I’m not)

About 50% of my awaken life, I don’t have the ability to be a computer to monitor email, Facebook, or Twitter, so I have always relied on a phone to keep me connected. When I had the original iPhone, I bought Twitterific. It was the 1st “good” Twitter app in the App Store. Since them, I have watched videos on many of the popular Twitter client choices and I picked Tweetie. They released Tweetie 2 a week after I bought the iPhone 3GS. I liked the old Tweetie and I like this one even more!

 
I will skip the configuration and start out with the meat and potatoes. The main part of Tweetie (This is tweetie 2.0, but I will refer to it from here on out as Tweetie) is the timelines. In the top left hand corner, you can back up to the accounts in iPhone-like fashion. In the upper right, you have the compose tweet button, more on that in a bit. Across the bottom, you have 5 icons. The 1st is your friends timeline. This shows all the tweets from your tweeps. The next tab is @ replies. These are replies directed at you.

The next tab is your Direct Messages (DM). Note the dot to the left. This indicates an unread DM in the thread. That is one of the cooler things that Tweetie does. All DM conversations are saved in a threaded format. It makes it very easy to communicate if someone waits a few days to reply.You can remember what you said to prompt the reply. Next up is the search tab. You can search many different ways. They also include trending subjects.

  
If you search nearby, Tweetie uses location services to figure out where you are and brings up a map to show folks that are tweeting nearby. Really neat, but useless in my opinion, unless you like to meet new people. Seems too wierd for my taste. There is also a list view (right hand screen) that shows the tweets from those nearby you.

The last tab is the dot dot dot tab. :-) This tab allows you to admin your account with my profile, check out your fav tweets, go to another user’s profile, and manage draft tweets. Going into your profile shows plenty of info about your account and you have some new icons at the bottom as well as an edit button in the top right hand corner. The 1st tab is the main profile tab that it defaults into. The next tab is your timeline. The @ tab is just that,  your @ replies. The last tab are your starred favorites.

You can actually edit your profile from Tweetie too. The go to user option allows you to go to someone you follow. You start typing and it finds people that match what you typed so far.

Here I went to ProfJulie’s profile. You can find out pretty much all you need to know about a tweet here. On the right hand screenshot, I am creating a tweet. The 140 character limit is displayed on a button in the lower right of the text area. This updates in real time as you type. If you tap that button, you get what you can see in the screenshot lower left.

Here you can add camera shots, photos from your library, @ someone, geotag, add hashtags, etc Pretty cool really. You can set up the image service you want to use in your settings. (below right) In the screen above right, you can see our public timeline again. If you want to interact with a tweet in your timeline, you can swipe right or left over the tweet to bring up a list of actions. You can retweet, reply, favorite the tweet, open an embedded link, or even go to the tweeps profile.

Here is the accounts page. This is brought up when you tap the “Accounts” icon in the upper left. You can set up your accounts, change from one to another, and edit the accounts here. The other option on this page is settings. Here you can set up all the services and more.

Wrap Up
You don’t really need this review to convince you I don’t think. It seems like everyone I know with an iPhone is using Tweetie 2. It’s WELL worth the $2.99 price tag. I have only tried a couple iPhone twitter apps, but none of them impressed me like Tweetie 2 does. There is a rumor that Tweetie 2.1 is on the horizon, so if you are considering this app, it might be good to wait. I don’t really know how long it will take, but it’s better to be safe than sorry.

Pros:

• Simple to use
• Very feature rich
• Price is right.
• The ability to learn more about a tweep within the app

Cons:

• Other than no support for lists (yet), I can not honestly say that this app has zero flows that I have noticed.

This review is part of our 50 app reviews in 50 days series. To check out the others, click here.