Life without Twitter is hard to imagine these days. If you are new to Windows Phone 7, you'd be surprised to see a half baked application from Twitter since they have fantastic applications on competing platforms likes iOS and Android. Fear not, we have compiled a list of best 5 twitter applications for your Windows Phone 7 device.
1. BirdSong: Birdsong is one of the first premium attention worthy twitter application on the marketplace and arguably the most visually pleasing twitter application across all platforms.
List of features :
That is an impressive set of features. Besides the awesome UI - it's pretty stable too. But there are some annoyances like
Good to see that these things are already covered in the Feature request forum on Red Badger's website. The application costs 0.99 $ and with the constant updates and awesome twitter support - there is no reason to not buy this app. Birdsong is a complete value for money.
Prepare to be overwhelmed, hit the Zune Link.
Zune Download Link.
update : new version of BirdSong has Toast notifications and Live Tiles.
( note - you can expect a detailed review of the next version of Birdsong, so stay tuned! )
2. moTweets: moTweets comes in two flavors - free ( add supported ) and premium ( which I believe is the right approach in the current situation ). Now moTweets, which has evolved from the Windows Mobile generation, is probably the most popular twitter client in the marketplace. It is an extremely feature rich client with few options to customize the UI.
Here are the list of features :
Use up to six (6) Twitter/Facebook accounts simultaneously.
• Upload pictures using your device’s camera or from the photo album.
• Add your location to your Twitter post using your phone's GPS.
• tinyurl.com, bit.ly, twitpic.com, yfrog.com and Plixi/TweetPhoto support.
• View Trends, Lists and Conversations.
• View user’s background in the user details screen.
• Live Tile displays your account image(s).
• Streams allow you to add and view multiple timelines including Search results and RSS feeds.
• View tweets near your location and view them on a Bing map.
• Three (3) skin themes to choose from.
• Image Wall displays all images from your timeline as well as ones you've uploaded.
• Translate Tweets, Search Twitter topics, locations and users with ease.
• ReTweet, Follow, Unfollow, Direct messages, RSS Feeds, Facebook Wall, Favorites and much more!
moTweets lets you add RSS feeds and a Facebook account, so that makes it a complete ' social ' client. But it primarily is a twitter client and it does it's job well. It's stable and a bit faster than Birdsong. One big advantage ( besides FB support ) is the live tile feature which notifies you of the number of unread incoming tweets.
It isn't perfect though, the UI isn't really up to the mark but that's ' my ' personal taste. It doesn't have auto complete for username and ' Near Me ' stream doesn't work well. But when it comes to features, it overshadows BirdSong at this moment. It's been a tough battle between these two since a long time now.
moTweets is definitely worth the 0.99 $ or you can get the add supported version for free.
Zune Download Link.
3. rowi [ lite]: rowi [ lite] is the new kid on the block and it's blazing fast. rowi [ lite] is what twitter's native client should have been . rowi [ lite] blends perfectly with the OS. It's a a perfect example of a Metro UI application.
The application isn't really heavy on features but does the job for most of the users. It has something special which nobody else does ( but will have soon! ) is the auto complete feature. The application is very stable and scrolling is super smooth. Interface is clean which is an advantage over cluttered moTweets UI. It keeps location of your last read tweet when you reload the app which is a simple feature but non existent on most of the clients, strangely. Overall it is a pretty well made application. Sadly, stuff like live tiles and toast notification still isn't available. But will soon be available in the premium app.
rowi [ lite] is free and we recommend you do check it out :
Zune download link.
update : Rowi has a premium application now with Toast notifications and Live Tile ( read review here )
Honorable mention : Beez ( live tile and toast notification, no updates anymore so basically stale ) and Twitter ( native client, underwhelming but lot of potential ).
Do tell us if you agree or disagree with the list in the comments below.
1. BirdSong: Birdsong is one of the first premium attention worthy twitter application on the marketplace and arguably the most visually pleasing twitter application across all platforms.
List of features :
- Configurable timelines
- Multiple accounts
- Threaded conversations
- Geo-tag tweets
- High performance, infinite scrolling
- Integrated picture viewing
- Offline viewing
- Map previews/thumbnails
- Bing Maps integration
- Share photos with TwitPic integration
- Integrated web browser
- Status Bar: unread message counts
- Integrated with theme/accent color
- Configurable timeline font size
- Favorite tweets
- Share tweets/DM via email or SMS
- Delete tweets/DM
- Lack of live tile and toast notification ( coming in the next update! )
- No Auto complete
- No long press to bring a pop up menu
- No Reply All option
Prepare to be overwhelmed, hit the Zune Link.
Zune Download Link.
update : new version of BirdSong has Toast notifications and Live Tiles.
( note - you can expect a detailed review of the next version of Birdsong, so stay tuned! )
2. moTweets: moTweets comes in two flavors - free ( add supported ) and premium ( which I believe is the right approach in the current situation ). Now moTweets, which has evolved from the Windows Mobile generation, is probably the most popular twitter client in the marketplace. It is an extremely feature rich client with few options to customize the UI.
Here are the list of features :
• Upload pictures using your device’s camera or from the photo album.
• Add your location to your Twitter post using your phone's GPS.
• tinyurl.com, bit.ly, twitpic.com, yfrog.com and Plixi/TweetPhoto support.
• View Trends, Lists and Conversations.
• View user’s background in the user details screen.
• Live Tile displays your account image(s).
• Streams allow you to add and view multiple timelines including Search results and RSS feeds.
• View tweets near your location and view them on a Bing map.
• Three (3) skin themes to choose from.
• Image Wall displays all images from your timeline as well as ones you've uploaded.
• Translate Tweets, Search Twitter topics, locations and users with ease.
• ReTweet, Follow, Unfollow, Direct messages, RSS Feeds, Facebook Wall, Favorites and much more!
moTweets lets you add RSS feeds and a Facebook account, so that makes it a complete ' social ' client. But it primarily is a twitter client and it does it's job well. It's stable and a bit faster than Birdsong. One big advantage ( besides FB support ) is the live tile feature which notifies you of the number of unread incoming tweets.
moTweets is definitely worth the 0.99 $ or you can get the add supported version for free.
Zune Download Link.
3. rowi [ lite]: rowi [ lite] is the new kid on the block and it's blazing fast. rowi [ lite] is what twitter's native client should have been . rowi [ lite] blends perfectly with the OS. It's a a perfect example of a Metro UI application.
rowi [ lite] is free and we recommend you do check it out :
Zune download link.
update : Rowi has a premium application now with Toast notifications and Live Tile ( read review here )
Honorable mention : Beez ( live tile and toast notification, no updates anymore so basically stale ) and Twitter ( native client, underwhelming but lot of potential ).
Do tell us if you agree or disagree with the list in the comments below.
