Yes I Tweet! I'm on Twitter and you can Folllow me here. I mostly tweet when I'm on the road and my iPhone is my main Twitter tool. On the iPhone my Twitter client of choice is Tweetie 2. However, although Tweetie 2 works just fine on the iPad, I prefer to have a full-sized Twitter client. One that really takes advantage of all that extra screen real estate. I'm sure that Tweetie 2 will be upgraded for the iPad at some point, but I wanted something NOW! So I decided to try out the FREE alternative in the interim.
TweetDec for iPad shows it all in one view
The nice thing about the iPad is that you do have that nice big display at 1024×768 resolution. So I'm totally addicted to Apps that take advantage of it. I had tried TweetDeck on my MacBook Pro and while the client worked perfectly it was actually too distracting. I would see new messages pop up during the day and immediately want to see what they were. I wasn't getting any work done. However, on the iPad that's less of an issue and I must admit I do like TweetDeck's ability to show the 3 main columns that I care about all in one view. I can see the tweets of the people I follow, I can see the Mentions of me or my tweets and I can see the Direct Messages too if I turn the iPad landscape. You can customize which columns you see and with a flick of your finger you can get to the next page of columns. I have two Twitter accounts so this is a nice way to flip between them. TweetDeck also takes advantage of the the latest Twitter technologies including Geotagging and Lists. So you can even have a column of say a list of your buddies or colleague's tweets. You can rearrange the columns by simply holding down your finger on a column header to get into the mode of rearranging.
You can get it here from the App Store
TweetDeck for iPad can also use Tweet photos from your Library and shorten long URLs. The only thing I noticed is that it can take a few minutes longer to update than I'm used to, but that's most likely do to having to update multiple columns at once. It also can handle multiple Twitter accounts. Another nice feature is that you can tweet the same tweet from multiple accounts just by tapping them in the new Tweet window before you post. I can certainly get used to what's here, but I definitely miss Tweetie 2's flick down to refresh feature.
The Bottom Line
It's hard to go wrong here. It's Free. It works!
TweetDeck for iPad
TweetDeck for iPad is a FREE client that lets you view multiple columns of Tweets and supports the latest Twitter features.
- TweetDeck, Inc.
- Get on App Store
- Free
All info was collected on 7th April, 2010 when the app was reviewed.
About Terry White
Terry is the co-author of The Best Selling "The iPhone Book" 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th editions. He has been active in the industry for over 25 years and is the founder and president of MacGroup-Detroit, Inc., Michigan's largest Macintosh Users Group, host of the Adobe Creative Suite Podcast and a technology writer - Terry White Tech Blog.
I tried out tweetdeck for awhile and although I loved the interface it was slow and buggy for me. switched to twitteriffic which runs much better
Definitely agree on the speed issue. No bugs or crashes here though. I have them both installed and go back and forth at least until Tweetie 2 is out for iPad
Good to know. I would be handicapped without TweetDeck!
I’m also experiencing #Tweetdeck constantly crashing on #iPad. I’m a happy PC, iPhone and Android user, but the iPad version is just unnacceptably poor. Utter app #FAIL
Ditto – it’s useless on the iPad, but OK on my iPhone 3GS
I am using tweet deck on my ipad2 butbit only works in portrait mode. Anyone have the same problem and or a solution suggestion?
Thanks