Twitterrific & Tweetie | Cool Twitter Clients for iPhone

Twitterrific 2.0, the new version of the popular Twitter App for the iPhone, is now live in the iPhone App Store.Twitterrific is the iPhone’s premiere app for reading and posting to the Twitter social network. The software has been designed to provide ease of use and a wide range of features while sporting one of the most elegant user interfaces available.

Tweetie is the leader among Twitter apps (only Twitter and TweetDeck have more users, says TwitStat). Although , Twitterrific does have some features better than or more than Tweetie, it seems that Tweetie will hold its lead position for some time now. Twitterrific will be compared or benchmarked with the performance or features avaialbel in Tweetie, as of now.

Tweetie

Tweetie, the leading app for iPhone in the market comes with a clean interface and lots of cool functions and options. Using Tweetie in your iPhone you can handle multiple twitter accounts, view your Tweet timeline, allows you to reply, send direct messages and favorites, browse your friends and followers, post new tweets, retweet, reply directly to tweets and send direct messages, follow and unfollow people, mark tweets as favorites, navigate reply chains for your twitter account.

The app also includes and inline web browser, allows you to post links with automatic link shrinking via bit.ly, upload pictures to twitpic.com, update your twitter location, view twitter trends and perform custom searches, save your favorite searches and the app implements the full twitter API.

The best part about Tweetie is it uses secure connection (https), and contains a Go to User shortcut, provides you with Nearby search, have lots of themes and adjustable font sizes.

Twitterrific 2.0

Twitterrific supports multiple accounts, filters for mentions, DMs, favorites, and marks (which are like personal favorites), trends, search by keyword, person, or location, saved searches, notes on users, retweet, conversations, custom shortcuts, the ability to follow/unfollow/block, expanded and condensed views, shrinkable text, and complete Twitter bios.

You can perform a host of actions on tweets including: RT, email, text compression and others. While doing retweet you can either use and RT or via option, which is totally cool. Also availabel is the option to choose between various layout styles to define the level of info you see.

The app provides you with several stunning visual looks & feels that you can select to find the one that best suits your tastes. You can instantly filter your timeline by @replies, direct messages, favorites & more.

Tweetie will almost certainly maintain its lead, as existing Tweetie users may not make the jump. Twitterrific fans, however, will be thrilled with the upgrade.