The good folks at the Iconfactory shipped Twitterrific 2.0 for iPhone today.
It’s gorgeous. I especially like the “Raven” theme as well as the little lights that appear along the sides of the screen when you select a tweet. It should also be commended for adding some innovative features that haven’t been done before — like Marks (private favourites) and Profile notes.
The most debatable concept (at least in my mind) is the “action” menu. In an attempt to keep the UI simple, Twitterrific 2 shoves everything you can do with a tweet into a single menu, allowing you to select any tweet in your timeline and preform actions based on it.
This is compared to Tweetie for iPhone which has many of the same features, but whose implementation feels more organic. With Twitterrific, I feel as if I have to know what every button does, compared to Tweetie, where I find buttons for what I want to do right where they should be.
I can visualize Tweetie’s hierarchy in my mind. It all make sense. It’s like Spaces on the desktop — I’m not just switching virtual desktops, I’m moving up, down, left, and right.
Twitterrific definitely has the looks, but Tweetie still feels better. And that’s all Tweetie ever had going for it.
