Best of breed twitter mobile clients
There are a number of fantastic Twitter clients floating around at present for Blackberry, Android, Symbian and iPhone.
Here are my flavors of the month.
Symbian
Gravity has just been released and its a huge leap from what was available.This is definitely a huge personal favorite. some complaints regarding its cost of €9.46 but not an issue in my opinion.
Compatible with Twitter and Laconica
All functions available on your S60 phone: tweet, reply, DM, follow & unfollow, create favourites, search, auto-update and many more …
Tabbed view of your Timeline, Replies, Messages, Friends, …
Setup and use as many accounts as you want at the same time
Twitter-Search section with multiple search tabs and Twitter Trends
Post pictures via TwitPic
Open URLs from any Tweet
Kinetic scrolling on S60v5 ( Nokia 5800 and Nokia N97 )
Theme support on S60v3 ( fixed dark and bright theme )
Blackberry
Socialscope
If your a Blackberry fan like me there is nothing to beat this.
Post updates to all your social networks with one click
View all your social network status updates and picture updates in one place
Address Book Integration allows you to save your contacts’ social network information and see their updates from the address book
Support for standard BlackBerry shortcuts, r – reply, d – direct message, c – compose update, b – bottom, t – top, f – favorite
Post updates directly from your Inbox
Twitter search support with #topics highlighting throughout BlackBerry
@username highlighting
One click access to the “in reply to” messages
BlackBerry spell checker support
Tabbed Interface so you never miss replies, direct messages or updates from specific contacts
Direct message interface makes it easier to see conversations
Post pictures via TwitPic from the camera or BlackBerry Media app
URL Shrinking with bit.ly with the BlackBerry Browser integration
Picture Florian Seroussi
iPhone
Twitterfon
Beside borrowing the twitterfone name 
and not being decent enough to return my emails on the subject this is definitely my favorite on iPhone, plenty of upgrades and a very fast interface make this one a winner over tweetie.
“TwitterFon is focused on 80% of your task of Twitter such as check friends/replies timeline, check direct messages, send a reply and/or a direct message, and search. It also focused on easy to use. It has very clean user interface, very fast response and scrolling”
Android
twidroid
I am shocked we are not seeing decent clients for the Android operating system. I find twidroid hard going and definitively not as smooth as any off the clients for the other operating systems.
full-featured twitter client
postings, replies & direct messages
user detail information
follow/unfollow a user
auto-completion of your contact names
secured operation via SSL
option to use identi.ca instead of twitter
option to use twitter compatible APIs (e.g. laconi.ca)
integrates directly with android’s browser & gallery for sharing
GPS location support to update your profile or embed into photos
location-based nearby search
directly integrated photo-posting from cam or disk via phodroid and twitpic
directly integrated search through all public tweets
native url-shortening
background notifications for replies & direct messages
auto layout for landscape and portrait mode
custom alert ringtones
API to send tweets from your android application (example)
‘buzz’ feature that allows you to view today’s most talked about stories on twitter directly in the app.
Have I missed anyone?
How do you mobile twitter?
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The lack of Android Twitter apps is just weird. I cannot abide Twidroid but there are few alternatives. How a Twitter client can use up 100% CPU and regularly cause a phone to reboot I’ll never understand. Slow,clunky and totally unstable. I’m using simple mobile views like Dabr in preference whilst I wait for the equivalent of Twibble to appear for Android.
My wife has an iPhone and I was always jealous of the various twitter clients created for it (especially Twitterfon). Then Gravity for my Nokia was released and in my opinion it’s handsdown the best Twitter app on any platform. I was initially skeptical of the price however it only took about an hour using the free trial before I decided to purchase!
The new beta version also offers the ability to create groups in a similar way to Tweetdeck. Now if only there were more apps of this quality released for the S60 platform. I might decide against switching to the iPhone when my current contract ends.
If you’ve not got a native application – then http://m.dabr.co.uk is the best mobile web Twitter interface full stop..
*disclaimer – I’m an advisor
Great stuff pat,
The only thing right now is that Socialscope is on invite only. For the BB, Twitterberry does the trick, but there is lots of room for improvement there.
Paul
For iPhone, you’ve omitted twinkle and tweetie.
tweetie is way better than both twitterfon and twinke, imho, and I’ve used both in detail. However, each to his own personal taste. Tweetie lets you manage multiple twitter accounts, save searches for stuff you look up regularly, and overall delivers a very intuitive and sweet experience across the board.
Cheers, Sean
So glad I tried the Trial version first on my E71 – the font is tiny!! And there does not appear to be anyway to zoom.
I wear glasses occasionally so my eyesight isn’t that bad, but the the font on Gravity is ridiculous.
BTW Available to buy from http://mobileways.de/products/gravity/gravity/ for only €7.93
Any suggestions for Windows Mobile? I am using the web interface at the moment.
twittermobile.co.uk
Have a look at http://pavo.me a new Twitter client for java mobiles. It allows to upload photos and videos directly from the handset. It’s currently in beta.