Over the past 6 months I have had about 12 different Twitter apps for the Iphone and all of them have sucked. A great number of them were proficient at 1 thing,  sending and receiving tweets. That is perfectly fine if all you want to do is send and receive tweets like text messages, but I wanted to try and get more out of the platform. The problem I had was that I have fallen in love with the lists, direct messages, mentions, ect ect that twitter offers and none of the apps I came across could do all of them until I found Twitbird.

Twitbird is way down the list of top grossing or top downloaded apps in the utilities or social networking categories of the app store, but I have yet to understand why. This is literally the end-all twitter application. I now have full use of all of the tools that twitter has to offer: lists, direct messages, mentions, tracking, search, profile, ect ect.

Why do I care? It’s because I have crapped away about 20 hours of time looking for an app that does all of the things that Twitter offers and I am trying to save you the 20 hours of wasted time.

Here is a screen-shot example of the “home” section of the app:

And if you care, here is one of the general Tweet section:

Here are the specs of the app:

SPECIAL FEATURES :
● In-App-Badges to show number of unread tweets
● Landscape mode supported everywhere
● Address Book
● Official Lists supports
● Inline picture preview
● Tweet Music/Now Playing
● Tweet Your Voice
● Tweet Video(3Gs only)
● Save link to readitlater, instapaper or save in twitbird
● Dark Theme and other two themes
● Custom background image
● Geotag supports(turned on in twitter.com required)
● mutual follow status between you and a user
● Advanced nearby tweet searching with map

PUSH NOTIFICATION :
● Inter TwitBird Push comes with the app, it is instant
● Global Push is available as in app purchase, It will push any mentions and direct messages to you in minutes
● Supports Mentions and Direct Messages

OTHER FEATURES
● View your twitter timeline, replies, and direct messages
● Manage your favorite tweets
● Browse your following and followers and lists
● Compose new tweets with rich features
● Reply directly to tweets and send direct messages
● Follow and unfollow people or lists
● Twitlonger supports
● Uses secure connection (https)
● Custom searches
● Save your favorite searches
● landscape keyboard
● Conversational Threaded tweets
● Twitter API Proxy
● Rich feature settings
● Trending topics
● View and edit your profile including head image
● Find people
● Email tweets
● Delete tweets from twitter.com
● Picture preview inside message
● Shorten URL
● Upload photo to Twitpic, yFrog, MobyPciture
● Set nearby distance
● Unread/All message filter
● Block/Unblock