Tommy Collison

So, the people behind Tweetie the Twitter iPhone app released the desktop client version today. Download here

Oh wow.

I never really liked Twitter desktop clients because I ran over the API limit about 15 minutes into the allotted hour, so I always stuck to the web interface, finding it perfect to my needs and lacking nothing. Best of all, I could press ‘reload’ as many times as I wanted and it could take it.

But, being trending on Twitter, I guessed I might want to take a look. Someone I knew had a demo too, being a top secret app developer (I’m making it sound so glamorous :P) and he said it was epic, so I said now that it was available for us normies to get, I might as well take a look.

If I had to describe it in one word, it’d be Streamlined. It’s such a mac app. Everything’s so fantastically fluid. Moving between menus is one swift and slick movement. During the Renaissance, the style of churches changed from being sharp and spikey to being more streamlined, with curves, and rounded edges. Tweetie is like that.

Another example of lovely and streamlined is how they handle TwitPics (photos integrated with tweets):

Usually when I’m reviewing something, I’ll have some gripes with it, but I cannot honestly say there’s anything I’d change. You can even view people’s personal info, like update numbers, following counts and the like. Nice. One of the few ups to TwitterFon (another client for iPhone) in that sense

So, in closing this lickarse review, the main point about this is that it’s superbly streamlined with no cost to the general features ever Twitter client should have. If you like having groups, stick to TweetDeck then. Gothic is the operative word for that client ;)

So, in closing this lickarse review, Tweetie is a lovely, functional, happy-go-lucky Twitter client that looks great. Go for it.