Top Twitter Apps

Despite the growing competition with Twitter, Twitter is and remains the leader in "mobile applications". And that's interesting, because if you send lots of textmessages, the following applications will save on your text costs.

1. Fring is a mobile application that connects you easily with all your Skype, MSN, Google Talk and your daily (phone) contacts. It can also communicate with all your Twitter friends through one, integrated contact list. You can save on your text-costs when using Fring and a Wi-fi connection.

2. Jtwitter is a Java application that you can install on your phone. Jtwitter allows you to send updates to Twitter without SMS. Jtwitter refreshesonly if you want it, so you're just online when you want to. If you want to download  Jtwitter browse to www.jtwitter.com/wap and the application will automatically install..

3. Mobio produces a lot of widgets that work together and are based on a mash up of web services. The mobile application GetMobio allows you to view all your Twitter updates in one place, separate and apart from your text messages. You can publish an update to your public Twitter timeline, get updates from your friends and track the public Twitter timeline. It works on most of the popular phones. GetMobio

4. Abiro Jitter (which stands for “Java Twitter”) is a tiny Twitter client for mobile phones. You can list messages or users, view friends, public and user timelines and send direct messages. Abiro Jitter supports all languages, but your phone needs to support fonts that include local characters and symbols. Jitter communicates directly with the Twitter server, increasing performance and reliability.

5. Twitteresce by MadPilot allows you to download public and private tweets to your phone and post updates. All you need is a Java J2ME enabled mobile. Unlike SMS, which can bombard you, you can choose when to receive Tweets. Plus, a very nice feature gives you the ability to close Twitteresce and leave it in the background; it will then pop up and alert you when you have a new tweet.

6. Cellity is a web app that you can easily install on your mobile phone and which will let you use Twitter while on the go. You need to register for the website in order to receive the download link. Cellity makes it easy for you to invite your friends to use Twitter, since you can do it from within the application itself.

7. Jargong is another application that allows you to bring all the best web apps to your phone and never miss a twit. You can send and receive direct messages and browse into a user’s timeline from another timeline. You also can set Jargon to automatically or manually refresh data. When updating your IM status message in Jargong, the status message in Twitter can automatically be updated.

8. TwitterBerry is a mobile client for posting updates to Twitter that works only on the Blackberry (hence the name). TwitterBerry quickly lets you post twits to the Twitter website, without loading the XHTML form in your browser. Besides posting new twits, you can view your friend’s timeline or the public timeline. The timelines show the user’s icon, the message and the username.

9. WHERE produces a series of mobile apps, including one that brings Twitter to you phone. You are allowed to post GPS enabled twits because the application automatically checks the zip code of your current location and memorizes it. Moreover, your friends can see both desktop and mobile map views of your twits.

10. TreoTwit is another cool application that you can use to send your twits from your mobile device, but this one is specially made for the Palm OS Treo and Palm OS PDA. It includes shortcuts that easily open the more common Twitter pages in your mobile web browser. In short, it optimizes Twitter for the Treo

11. Twibble is het Twitterprogramma voor de Nokia N95. Naast de basistwitter-functionaliteit, kan de ingebouwde GPS van N95 je huidige positie aan een twit toevoegen. Je positie kan daarna door Twittervision of Twittermap worden getoond.

12. Tiny Twitter is a mobile application that works on any Java enabled device and any Windows Mobile Pocket PC or Smartphone. You can send direct twits to any of your friends and hide twits from specific users (which will not be deleted from your message stream). Additionally, you can set the automatic update interval to whatever you prefer to keep your friends’ timeline fresh.

13. Mobypicture is a special version because this is for the placement of photos. Besides the fact that they can be placed directly into Flickr, they can easily be send to your Twitter friends.

Bron: FrankWatching.nl