Yesterday I was briefly describing two GTD-like applications, both based on Leopard’s new iCal engine, Anxiety and Today. While browsing on the Today’s authors website I also noticed that they launched an iPhone twitter client. I’m a twitter addict – although I’m not (yet) a twitter ranter, keeping my tweets at a normal pace – so having a new toy for my toy was a thing I could never miss. So, after some reading on the main Pockettweets home page, here I am, with a quick and clean review:
First of all, pockettweets is a web based client, so you will access it through your Mobile Safari, where you will input this URL: http://www.pockettweets.com (If you access it from your regular browser you will receive a normal page, yeap, they are using some redirection based on your user-agent).
The main screen when you first access pockettweets is the public timeline:
The login window is a slick semi-transparent window:
Once logged in, you are presented with the normal “you + friends” twitter timeline:
The “star” and “@” icons on the right are standing for “starring this tweet” and “conversation with…” functions. As you already guessed, but just wanted to be sure. Adding a tweet is also easy, by using the “update” balloon-button:
After hitting “update” your tweet will be live and… well, tweeting 
Pockettweets offer also some shortcuts to frequently used functionalities for the twitter power-user, but they are grouped in a toolbar. For some reason, the toolbar is located on the bottom of the screen, and is accessed by a button on the top of the page. If you ask me, I say that the toolbar could be easily placed on top, but maybe there are some usability issues that I’m not aware of. Anyway, clicking on the “toolbar” gives you this:
You can quickly access from the toolbar the “you + friends” timeline (already saw that), your replies (or twitter conversations):
your direct messages:
and of course your personal twitter archives:
All in all pockettweets is a slick application. I could use it when I’m in the mood for something new, but, most of time I’ll use the mobile twitter interface. Nevertheless, pockettweets is a good example of what one can do with a nice API (provided by twitter) and a nice user interface (provided by Apple).
As a user, you have nothing left to do, than to start some hype .
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