First Look: Twitter for iPhone

@carl, battery seems to be fine. you may want to check other apps there that may be causing this.

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Anyone else seeing excessive battery consumption after uprading to Twitter for iPhone? Or is it just me?

They’ve made it worse.

1. The way they show tweets which have been retweeted, is stupid. While Tweetie showed a nice, unobtrusive purple corner in addition to showing both users’ avatars, Twitter takes a piss on all that and uses the same awful implementation like on their website — the long line “Retweeted by Blah Blah Blah”. Here’s a screenshot: http://twitpic.com/1p6t7x

2. Tweetie’s icon was prettier, Twitter’s just looks cheap. (I’m even using Winterboard to get the old icon back.)

3. I don’t like how they’ve thrown a bunch of buttons in the tweet-swipe-bar, without any thought. The Retweet button shouldn’t have been separate, and the Attachments and User button aren’t really relevant — all the links and the user could be accessed by tapping on the tweet.

Also, upgrading deleted all my drafts (about 20), which were /pretty/ important.

So no, I liked Tweetie 2 better :P

used it a bit today and i like it. $3 for tweetie was pretty minimal and now it's free. tweetdeck vs twitter/tweetie is the best free client(s) for the iphone. Still think twittelator pro is the best paid app though

This App is both good and bad. On one hand it's very fast, cleanly laid out and easy to use. On the other hand it lacks a lot of features I'm used to from other Twitter Apps so I'll be sticking with Twitbird Pro for now at least.

I miss Tweetie. The name, the icon.

I see enough of that bird.

In my opinion Twittelator Pro is still the best app out there, this new "officicial" app is just so...for lack of a better term... basic.

Twitter bought AteBits for a reason, and that reason was Tweetie. Tweetie may not look like it fits Twitter's site design, but in all honesty Tweetie's UI design and overall UX are exactly why it is so widely-beloved. If Twitter were to redesign Tweetie to match what you see on Android, they would see the vast majority of their users leaving in droves. Loren Brichter really hit the sweet spot when it comes to intuitive gesture usage, information density, platform-appropriate design and lack of clutter.

Anybody else having trouble with Retweets not showing up?

I'm really not a fan of the UI design for the main tweet window - tweets seems very squashed. Wasn't there a dark theme in the older version? Or am I imagining that? I'll stick to Birdfeed for now.