Tweetie Main Page

Following my earlier review of free Twitter apps on the iPhone, Accessing Twitter from the iPhone, a reader suggested I check out his favorite Twitter app, Tweetie. Tweetie is a feature-rich Twitter app that has added a couple of valuable accessibility features in its latest release, making Tweetie worth the $2.99 price tag.

[Caveat Emptor: I used a free promo code to download this app fro review.]

Tweetie now has both themes and font choice. The large font choice is reasonably large (you can also choose small and medium). One of the theme choices is a very accessible light-on-dark. Between these two features, I find Tweetie sufficiently easy to use.

Tweetie Single Tweet

There are a couple of changes that would make the app more accessible. Landscape mode, combined with a giant font option, would make Tweetie even easier to read. The theme only covers the main page. Tapping to a single tweet page reverts to the normal white-on-black color scheme.

Overall, Tweetie is now my default choice for Twittering on my iPod Touch. Besides the ease of reading, Tweetie also allows me to keep track of both the Twitter accounts I run, oberazzi, for this blog, and BlindPhotogs, for the Blind Photographers web site. This additional feature clinches Tweetie as my Twitter app on the go.

Tweetie is available on iTunes. Read more about iPhone accessiblity here.

Tags: accessibility, accessibility feature, app, apps, color scheme, font option, iphone, iPod, ipod touch, itunes, landscape mode, review, size, themes, Touch, twitter

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