It always felt a step behind other clients, and it had really started to show in recent months. That is not to say I didn’t have some qualms with Twitterrific 3 & 4. As I alluded to earlier, I am a fan of simplicity. However, Twitterrific remained very bare bones compared to other apps, something I enjoyed. It had the same feature set as the iPad app did, and cautiously returned features as needed.
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Then Twitterrific 3 (and 4, since 4 was really an evolution of 3) came to the iPhone, actually being an update to the iPad app. Where version 2 had feature overflow, Twitterrific for iPad went back to the bare minimum. They took the opportunity afforded to them by the short time to develop the app to strip Twitterrific back to basics. When the iPad came out, The Iconfactory was again first to have an app out for the new device. However, it suffered from feature creep and interface bloat. It packed in just about every feature that could be thought of but the kitchen sink. That is why Twitterrific 2 was a little surprising. I have always admired The Iconfactory for their attention to simplicity. The initial iOS app was a basic way to read, tweet, and reply, just like its big brother on the Mac. Twitterrific for iOS was my first app downloaded from the App Store as soon as I had purchased my iPhone 3G on launch day in July 2008.
While Twitterrific’s roots are on the Mac, it is the iPhone, and later the iPad, where its story really takes flight.
It started as simple as Twitter itself, and contributed some features back to Twitter that we all take for granted now. For the years that I have been on Twitter there is one app that I have used primarily to interact with the service - Twitterrific. Most of my friends over the past few years, both local and afar, started as acquaintances on Twitter.
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