First Look: Twinkle

haha look at picture 11 of 12. I love how the iphone drains battery life so fast.

Typo: "it's fair share" --> "its fair share"

Hey guys, one of the Twinkle devs here. The reason we're having connection problems is because our servers are overloaded. We're working on the problem, stay tuned!

Gee, it's too bad they chose a name that's been in use by someone else for two years....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkle_(software)

Free with no ads? Adios, Twitterific.

Twitterific will upload existing images OR take a picture directly. (The secret is the "Take Photos Directly" setting).

Not loving the idea that I have to sign up for yet ANOTHER account to use this app at all -- wish I could send tweets without signing up for a Tapulous account. This model, where I send a tweet through a Tapulous server which then sends it on to Twitter, is kind of ridiculous because now I'm at the mercy of TWO different servers that are easily overloaded.

OK, I guess we commenters need to write the "First Look" article.

I'm surprised so many people are in love with Twinkle, since it doesn't have an option to "favorite" a tweet (among other things). Granted, I'm loving the fact that Twinkle puts posted photos right in the tweet (once you tap through to see details on the tweet). However, links aren't so handy. Besides the fact that Twitterriffic has a fancy built-in instance of webkit for embedded links, Twinkle falls short in a HUGE way if someone posts a tinyURL link that goes to YouTube: tap the link in Twinkle, which then closes and bounces you to Safari, which then closes and bounces you to YouTube.app. Same thing would happen if you were to tap on a bit.ly link that goes to a Google Maps URL.

Twinkle is kinda great for when Twitter goes down, since they operate their own network...but a) that's only useful when all your friends are using Twinkle, and b) it's not useful at all (even when Twitter is up) when the Tapulous network goes down.

And for my last two gripes, scrolling speed (latency) is pretty crummy, and there is no landscape mode. It's pretty funny that MobileSafari's scrolling speed is superb, and it handles landscape mode perfectly. I imagine I may be in a minority, since most of my Twitter reading time happens to be just before bed...but oh well.

So far, even given the interesting features that both Twitterriffic and Twinkle have brought to the table, I still can't bring myself to stop using Hahlo. It's gonna be hard to beat, in terms of feature-complete-ness.

I'm hoping, by the time the Push Notification Service debuts, that Tapulous and Icon Factory will have pushed some impressive updates to the Store (and hopefully Apple will start piping them to the consumer in a timely fashion). If all these things come together, THEN we'll have some compelling software!

Whoa whoa whoa! Bad timing, guys. It's important to note that Twinkle is having server issues at the moment, due to way way too many people accessing the server.

They're working on it. This isn't a good time to judge the app. Give it some time and try again, it's really a great app and is very addictive.

I have tried it out today and it kept on giving me a unable to post server error. I do not like this app as much as twitterific.

I apologize in advance for being the grammar nitpicker, but "it's" is equal to "it is". You needed to use "its" for the possessive. For a reminder, bookmark
http://www.angryflower.com/itsits.gif