Tweetdeck for iPhone

Tweetdeck is great. Tweetdeck for iPhone is great. I’ve tried plenty of other twitter clients, but I’ve always ended up back at Tweetdeck. It just does what I want it to do, and I guess there’s now some of that inertia – it’s hassle to move (despite twitter lists which makes the web interface much more usable).

But. There has to be a but, eh? A few months ago when they released the iPhone client a big feature was that you could sync your columns between your desktop clients and your phone. Sounded pretty good. Didn’t work for me, and a few others. They said they’d fix it, and within a few weeks there was a new version to download form the appstore. But. Still didn’t work for me. I’ve been through some hoopla trying to get it to work (and most of my not inconsiderable list of email addresses); still no joy.

Very recently, I’ve replaced TD on my phone with SimplyTweet and Tweetie2. Can’t pick between them. Had to go through the hassle of setting up lists on each one, but that’s because you can’t import/export them between clients or web. Yet. You should try them both, either is thoroughly worthy of the few quid they charge.

Tweetie is feature rich and easy to use. Very simple to pick up – nice and intuitive.

SimplyTweet is equally appealing, but annoying because of its best feature – push updates. Great when on phone only… but not when at my desk because my phone get updates I’ve already seen. And there’s no way to turn it off. Wish there was some way to sync desktop to phone.. (and I’m back where I started. someone needs to get this right.)