twitter is now becoming the sensation that it always promised, being highly coveted in the media and making waves in popular culture it is only fair to review the best iPhone app. I have narrowed down this comparison to Twitterrific and TwitterFon, both widely used both touted as being the best. One noteworthy omission is Twinkle, which I haven’t used much and was only introduced to last night but it looks to have similar functionality as TwitterFon so I’m confident that leaving off list won’t devalue my 5 reasons why TwitterFon is better.

1. It loads, highlights and tells you all the Tweets you may have missed since last opening the app. Twitterrific sadly loads a recent bunch but there always seems to be some missing and you can’t load in more.

2. The omnipresent tool bar at the bottom is massively useful. I like to know how many replies I receive and go directly to them, same with direct messages, but most of all I like to go and search.

3. Search functionality is the best out there, looking for a topic, or person then type it in and search. What are the current trends, TwitterFon will tell you, and let you search for them. Last of all, want to know what people are saying around you? no worries, search your area from as little as 1km in diameter to 200kms. Twitterrific you dropped the ball here, nowhere to be found on your app.

4. Tweeting is so much more functional on TwitterFon, I can @anyone from my following list on a new message, rather than just being able to doing it in reply to their tweet (even here on Twitterrific it is not easy to do). Not only that but re tweeting (RT) is something that Twitterrific leaves to a manual process, making it never likely to happen along with Direct Messaging, which is why I guess the ific app doesn’t even have the functionality of point 1.

5. Users, Profile and Links. Clicking on a tweet with links, will take you to a whole new world within TwitterFon, it will allow you to see user Profiles more elegantly than in ific, plus you can follower a users timeline and see other things they have posted a really useful function if you need to follow a string of dialog. Also here you can see what type of person this, number of post, favourites, followings, followers. Links work in an internal browser which has one advantage over the internal browser in ific, that being the tilt to horizontal screen works, making reading webpages much more fun with having to scroll to the side less.

6. Add or Remove users on the fly. Why wait till you get to a computer to do this. Adding and Removing users is oh so simple and critical to make sure someone of interest is followed immediately.

TwitterFon vs. Twitterrific, I know which I’d prefer to have. Goodbye Twitterrific (looks aren’t everything) you are now going to be deleted from my phone, especially as you kept crashing during this test. I’m sure I could come up with another 3 or 4 reasons why Fon is better, but on these points alone I think I have stated my position.

Edit: 7th Reason, you can follow @ conversations… useful indeed, useful indeed.