Earlier today, I reviewed several ways to access Twitter on the iPhone, Accessing Twitter from the iPhone. I compared the TwitterFon and Twitteriffic apps with Twitter’s mobile web site.
Twitteriffic iPhone App
How accessible is Twitter on the iPhone? Besides receiving tweets as expensive text messages, there are multiple iPhone apps that access your Twitter stream as well as Twitter’s mobile web site. Here, I will compare the accessibility of two of the more popular iPhone apps, Twitteriffic and TwitterFon, with that of the mobile web site.
It turns out that my review of Twitterific was incomplete and, therefore, my conclusion was wrong. Sorry, Twitteriffic folks! I have now fixed the earlier update and am including the new portion here:
I had high hopes for Twitteriffic when I first used it. Twitteriffic uses an alternative color schemes but I rather like. The light text on a black background is much easier to read than the standard color scheme. Until I received a recent email from the developers, I thought that you could not zoom. But I was wrong. [My excuse is that I never read the instructions because the font is to small.] As the developers just alerted me, you can double tap any tweet to view with a larger font. From there, you can flick up or down to scroll through the list of tweets. Still, there is no multitouch zoom or landscape mode. Despite my initial review, Twitteriffic just makes the grade. There is plenty of room for improvement. I would love to see scalable fonts and landscape mode in future iterations.
I came to the conclusion that Tiwtteriffic and the mobile web site were neck-and-neck for the most accessible Twitter app for the iPhone.
So, which is the best way to access Twitter? For me, it is a tie. I like the font size that the mobile web site offers, but I love the color scheme used by Twitteriffic. Twitterriffic has the advantage of offering a richer Twitter experience. With a scalable font or, at least a slightly larger on, Twitteriffic will be the way to go.
Thanks to the Twitteriffic gang for pointing out the error of my ways!
Twitteriffic is available on the iPhone or through the iTunes App Store. The Twitter mobile site can be found simplyt by accessing twitter.com on the iPhone web browser. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here.
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