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Confused about iPhone Twitter Apps?

I don’t know about you, but I still haven’t decided what Twitter iPhone app I should be using, so I currently have 6 (six) different apps installed: 2 feature-rich apps, 2 elegant apps and 2 basic ones. I know this may sound a bit crazy, but so far I couldn’t figure out which one is THE Twitter iPhone app, plus I have found a specific scenario for each of them

• feature-rich:
  • TwitBird Pro: got this during a free promotion, as it is offering group support and seems to perform a bit better than TweetDeck
  • TweetDeck: got this one too, as its bigger (desktop) brother is probably the best advanced Twitter client
• elegant:
  • Twitterrific: its desktop brother was probably the first Twitter app I’ve used
  • Echofon (previously known as TwitterFon):
• basic:
  • TwitAndRun: probably the simplest interface to post a tweet (and believe me it is even simpler then Twitter mobile website)
  • JustUpdate: still a simple interface for posting only, but with support for friend list access

Now to make things a bit more confusing, DaringFireball is praising ☞ the new upcoming version of the iPhone elegant app Tweetie:

but the persistence is the one that means the most to me. The effect is that you can leave Tweetie at any point, use another app, then go back to Tweetie, and it’s almost as though you never left. Feels like switching, rather than quitting/relaunching.

While other very useful iPhone apps are running some promotions, Tweetie is maintaining its €2.79/$2.99 list price. Anyways, stay assured that if there will be any promotions that I’ll try to catch that and let you know about it.

If you love your iPhone, make sure you are not missing any of the app reviews and categories covered in the iPhone apps for geeks series.