TweetyPop – A New Twitter Client That Leaves All Others In The Stone Age

By Lory | April 28, 2011 | 1 comment

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TweetyPop for the iPad is a brand new social networking app that revolutionizes the way you view your Twitter feed. Now, you can toss out the old way of viewing new tweets as a boring old list and see them as happy little word balloons that you can toss off the screen with the flick of your finger.

As Twitter clients go, most of them are about the same. Some have more features than others. Some look better. But for the most part, I’ve found that free Twitter apps are just as good as paid ones and they are not much different than Twitter.com anyway.

That being said, TweetyPop has just blown my mind. Let me give you a visual. Picture this: the feed page is as big as the entire screen and there is a space scene in the background. Your tweets are layered, three-dimensionally, in word balloons that are largest (oldest) to smallest (newest). As you read a tweet, you grab it and swipe it off of the screen, making room for others. You can move the topmost tweets around however you like, and get this- you can use it as a screensaver, allowing your tweets to move around on the screen by themselves.

Even though that alone is more than enough reason to spend the two bucks it costs, there are other features that make it a top notch app. You can have more than one Twitter account at a time. You can include photos from your iPad’s camera roll or photo album. You can increase or decrease the speed at which your tweets show up on the screen. You can send to Instapaper. You can fast forward or rewind the timeline to view older posts. You can view a specific time only, like between the past 8 – 15 minutes. If you find yourself longing for the two-dimensional list, you can always choose that as a viewing option, too.

Of course, the app includes all of the regular features like, mentions, lists, searches and direct messages, too.

This new way of reading tweets is the next big thing. TweetyPop is to Twitter clients as Twitter was to Social Networking.

What I liked: It blew my mind. I just can’t say enough about how cool it is. My favorite, though, is the screensaver feature. I like having my tweets just roaming around on my screen while I work.

What I didn’t like: Umm… nothing.

To buy or not to buy: I think you already know how I feel