There are a lot of Twitter clients now. How to choose?

For this, I chose the two most important indicators, in my opinion:

1) Speed. It should work as fast as possible even on my old 3G. Although the performance of new devices does not hurt.
2) Convenience. Minimum action to create a new tweet, replay, update the tape, view sheets. Substitution of hashtags and usernames.
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The purpose of the review is to choose the fastest and most convenient client for the standard algorithm: run → read the tape or sheet (s), or else (fot / select photo) → write.

Twitter for iPhone (official client)

Price: free.
Latest version: 3.3.5
Loading: 8-10 (!) Seconds

pros

- Nice classic interface without whistles.
- Update tape pull down / release.
- Gestures in the tape. Swipe tweet left or right opens the options: replay, retweet, fave, profile, sharing link, sharing tweet.
- Drafts.
- Tweets are sent in the background (i.e. you can read the tape while a couple of photos are loading).
- There are such important things as creating sheets, adding users to the sheets, viewing retweets.
- Download multiple attachments.
- When you select a photo, even before it is loaded, you already know how many characters the link will take, and the number of remaining characters will be indicated minus the length of the link.
- When viewing photos from tweets, as well as when they are filled, it shows a progress bar.
- Push Notifications.

Minuses

- Autoupdate tape at startup (if I want to start the client to just write a tweet, an extra request only slows down the work and spends my traffic)
- Auto-update after posting a tweet (both plus and minus at the same time - it would be better if it was in the form of settings)
- Slow switching from Timeline to Mentions and vice versa for the first time after each launch. Then a little faster.
- Interface and scroll brakes when the tape is updated.

Screenshots

Ribbon, creating a new tweet, inserting usernames, photos:



View tweet, dialogue, profile:



Your profile, search, sheets:



Settings:



Summary: A pleasant, but very slow client. Constantly something loads without demand.

Echofon pro

Price: $ 4.99 (there is a free version with a banner)
Latest version: 4.0.8
Loading: 2-3 seconds

pros

- Absolutely everything works very quickly. The most global plus.
- Visually, the interface is slightly less pleasant than that of Twitter (especially the new tweet dialogue and profile view), but extremely thoughtful: the tweet viewing window does not replace the buttons on the toolbar below, so you can quickly go to any desired section; hashtags and usernames are substituted quickly and do not close almost the entire screen;
- Update tape pull down / release.
- You can conveniently make a replay on several different tweets.
- Does not update the tape without demand. Thus saving my traffic and device resources.
- Synchronization with the desktop client (Mac).
- In the feed, all links are active, unlike Twitter.
- There are previews of pictures in the tape.
- Push Notifications.

Minuses

- No gestures.
- There are no drafts, although when the new tweet dialog is closed, its contents are saved.
- Can not upload multiple attachments.
- No background sending tweets.

Screenshots

Ribbon, creating a new tweet, inserting usernames, photos:



View tweet, dialogue, profile:



Your profile, search, sheets:



Settings:



Summary: The smartest customer of all. Always smooth scrolling, fast loading, instant response of all interface elements.
Everything is quite convenient. I can not say how with the speed of customers for, for example, iPhone 4, but for the iPhone 3G this client is the definitive leader in speed, and $ 5 is not a pity for it.

Osfoora

Price: $ 2.99
Latest version: 1.7.3.1
Loading: 5-6 seconds

pros

- It works quite quickly, but slower than Echofon.
- Update tape pull down / release.
- In general, a nice interface. Good home menu.
- Download multiple attachments. Including music.
- Drafts.
- For fans of #FF there is a button that automatically inserts several random accounts into a tweet.

Minuses

- No gestures.
- Not very smooth scrolling.
- There is no automatic substitution of usernames when writing a tweet.
- No viewing of tweet details.
- No push notifications.

Screenshots

Ribbon, creating a new tweet, inserting usernames, photos:



View tweet, dialogue, profile:



Your profile, search, sheets:



Settings:



Summary: A good combination of convenience and speed.

Tweetbot

Price: $ 1.99
Latest version: 1.1
Loading: 4-5 seconds

pros

- Not classic, but convenient and beautiful interface.
- Update tape pull down / release.
- When you tap on tweets, new windows do not open, but a convenient menu appears: replay, retweet, fave, etc .; double tap on tweet shows detailed information; triple there - reply.
- Swipe to the left shows a dialogue, swipe to the right - replays.
- Instead of the classic menu of sheets, the client offers to switch between the ribbon or sheets using the Timeline button at the top. It is very convenient.
- Able to upload multiple photos (and show how many characters left with reference to them).
- There are drafts.

Minuses

- It does not work very quickly, sometimes scrolling is not smooth.
- Loads everything subjectively slower.
- Auto-update after posting a tweet (both plus and minus at the same time - it would be better if it was in the form of settings)
- No push notifications.

Screenshots

Ribbon, creating a new tweet, inserting usernames, photos:



View tweet, dialogue, profile:



Your profile, search, sheets:



Settings:



Summary: Good gesture control, convenient interface solutions. But sad performance.

Twitterrfic

Price: $ 4.99 (free version with banner, upgraded through in-app purchase)
Latest version: 4.1
Loading: 6-7 seconds

pros

- There is a translator.
- Highlight tweets and dialogues.

Minuses

- When writing a tweet and inserting a photo, it tries to send it to the server even before the tweet is written.
- The interface does not work smoothly, scrolling sometimes slows down.
- No tweet details view.
- Switching between ribbons, sheets, mentions only through the additional menu. Extra action, uncomfortable.
- No push notifications.

Screenshots

Ribbon, creating a new tweet, inserting usernames, photos:



View, dialogue, profile:



Menu, your profile, search, lists:



Settings:



Summary: We tried to make a simple application, but it turned out to be unfinished. For what the money is spent is unclear.

Tweetdeck

Price: free.
Latest version: 2.0.2
Loading: 8-10 seconds

pros

- Very convenient switching between ribbon, mentions, selected sheets - swipe to the right or left.
- Ability to read what others write to a specific user.
- Nice black theme.

Minuses

- Scroll shamelessly slows down. And the rest also works very slowly.
- When you select a photo for tweet, it immediately starts uploading it to the server, and not in the background and without the possibility of canceling the download.
- Few settings.
- No push notifications.

Screenshots

Ribbon, creating a new tweet, inserting usernames, photos:



View, dialogue, profile:



Your profile search:



Settings:



Summary: Convenient, but slowly to impossibility.

Results

For older iPhones 3G, I would recommend Echofon - it just works faster than anyone.
For 3Gs and 4, you can try Osfoora (but minus: there is no username substitution) or Tweetbot for fans of non-standard interfaces. The official client is suitable only for those who do not care that the application is constantly loading something.

Tweetdeck can be a good client if developers optimize and add settings.
About Twitterrfic, you can say the same thing.