iPhone App Reviews

Tweetion

Chrisa | Feb 4, 2009 Social Networking

User rating: (1 votes, average: 2.00 out of 5)

 Loading ...

Hi, my name is Chrisa, and I’m a twitter-er.  It’s pretty much an obsession, and I should be in a 12-step program for it, but I can’t help it.  I lovemicro blogging, and I don’t care who knows it!  I’ve used another iPhone Twitter app for some time now, but it was a free app (you’ll have to search for it yourself), and while it works fine and does what I need, I figured there must be a more full-featured Twitter app out there, even if I have to pay for it.

Along came Tweetion, from Joggame.  I guess you pronounce it “twee-shun”.   And it does seemingly have more features than the freebie I had been using.  You can have it automatically set your location based on where you are when you Twitter, automatically update your Facebook status from Twitter (although, Twitter itself can do this, without having to set it here), retrieve past tweets, update your service delivery (IM, SMS), and even edit your Twitter bio information.   Don’t know about you, but I usually set that and forget it on the Twitter website, so I don’t know how often you’d use the setup, after your first time entering your login info.

Then, of course, you can read tweets from those to which you subscribe, add a tweet, add a twitpic, reply to a tweet, search for trends, etc.  All the things you’d expect. 

But, there are some downfalls.  In the settings, you use standard iPhone “dials” to pick how far back you’d like to pull tweets, but it doesn’t work as a dial.  In fact, it’s infuriating as all hell to figure out how a dial ISN’T a dial (see below).  In fact, the entire setup menu is either a little blurry, or I need a prescription change on my glasses.  Recent Tweets are in HUGE boxes, which I found hysterical, since the avatar/bio pic for each tweet was so small, I could barely make out what it was.  Oh – and if you want to view your profile, all you get is your tiny bio pick – can’t even read your own bio to be sure it was edited correctly in settings. 

Then there’s adding a tweet.  It takes no less than 4 clicks – minus what you type – to add an entry.  Why?  Seems like there are 2-3 clicks to many and when you’re an addict, you need to get delivery of your fix fast.  4 clicks wasn’t fast enough for me.

I tried to give Tweetion a fare shake – I used it to Twitter for five straight days, and in the end, I went back to my free Twitter app.  Maybe I’m just used to the free one, but I get more tweets on a page, bigger bio pics, faster tweets, and easier searching on the free one.  Seems that Tweetion slaps in a lot of stuff you don’t really need to justify charging $4.99.  My advice – slim it down, make the bio picks bigger, and charge $1.99.  You’ll probably end up making more dough in the end.

Tags: $4.99, social networking