Top 5 Twitter Apps for iPad

by sweta on April 9th, 2010 2

Even before iPad was out on sale, apps for iPad had started making their way to the App Store. Given the popularity of Twitter apps for iPhone, its no surprise that applications for iPad will be available in huge number too. Though there are many Twitter applications available in the App Store, here is a list of 5 most popular Twitter apps available:

Twitterrific for iPad

Twitterrific has been quite a huge hit as an iPhone application. This version of the application made exclusively for iPad is easy to use and hosts a number of features which includes:

Unified display for replies, re-tweets, direct messages, mentions & more
Create Twitter-based searches & view lists
Browse conversation threads between users
Follow, un-follow, and block Twitter users easily
Filter timeline for specific tweet types & trends
Helpful actions including: re-tweet, link shortening, email & tweet translation

Though a lot can be done with the free version, there is a premium version available if you’d like to upgrade. The premium version comes at $4.99 and lets you mange multiple accounts and also removes ads from your timeline.

TweetDeck for iPad

TweetDeck is one of the most popular desktop applications for Twitter and certainly doesn’t require an introduction. This free to use application offers you a complete solution to your Twitter needs. Here is a list of features that TweetDeck offers currently:

multiple columns
multiple twitter accounts
reply, retweet, direct message and favorite from a tweet
view user profiles
see recent updates and who a person is following and being – followed by
follow or unfollow and block or unblock a user
add All Friends, Mentions and DM columns
add Search columns
add Trending Topic columns
add Twitter list columns – both lists you’ve created and those you follow
cross post updates to any combination of your accounts
geotag your tweets
shorten URLs
access your Twitter contact list
upload photos (from the on-board iPhoto library)
rearrange columns however you like and delete those you no longer need
view geocoded tweets on a full-screen map

The version 2 of the application which can be expected going ahead will have a complete Facebook integration and some real time visualization.

TwitBird for Twitter

TwitBird is a popular iPhone application developedd by Nibiru Tech. The application is compatible with iPad and is available in free and paid version for $2.99. Apart from regular features which let you mange your Twitter account, Twitbird offers a range of special features which includes Tweeting music, Tweeting your voice, Tweeting video, Custom background images, address book and a lot more.

Twit Pro

The Twitter client by North American company iApp Venutures, LLC is an iPhone application for Twitter which is compatible with iPad. The app has a huge list of features and is available at $0.99. Some of the really cool features include participation in live conversation, geo tagging functionality that lets users feed in their current location in their tweets. You can also update your Facebook status and upload photos and videos on Facebook.

Twittelator for iPad

This good looking application is developed by Stone Design Corp which has earlier made the iPhone/ iPad version of the application. The app is available for $4.99 and provides all the features that are expected from it. Its features are listed below:

Beautifully designed and visually rich interface
Friends’ tweets are presented persistently in landscape
See images inline in your friends’ tweets feed
Messages are presented in a chat view
Set customizable wallpapers
Discover nearby Twitter users
Create and manage drafts
Terrific multiple account support
Post photo and audio tweets
Automatically splits up long tweets to allow longer messages
All this amongst a rich set of other highly tuned features

All the applications available for Social Networking can be accessed as the App Store.

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Abhijeet

Twit Pro for iPad
Full-featured, powerful native Twitter client for iPad with rich functionality of posting messages, photos, tweet with symbols (? ? ? ??), geotagging, handling multiple accounts, offline-mode & much more…(including universal landscape)
Download now: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twit-pro-for-ipad/id372244444?mt=8

June 12, 20102:48 am

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