You get what you pay for. An old but still very true saying. While Twitterrifc is a beautiful client, it’s lacking features just make it a pretty looking client. The Premium edition costs $10 and still doesn’t bring up the feature list to par for the asking price. TwitterFon is nice and free, but with little more offering than Twitter’s own mobile web page, it’s not too worthy of icon space on your iPhones home screen. Twinkle is nice, but since it is tied into its own network, your replies sometimes do not appear on Twitter and there are other issues, such as the near impossibility of activating the application. Not much left in the App Store for you to find, but thankfully Stone Design has upped the ante from Twittelator (its free offering) with Twittelator Pro (App Store link.)
With slew of features and an interface that rivals Twitterrific’s awarding winning look, you’d have to be silly not to consider Twittelator Pro’s $4.99 price. Any Twitter user that finds themselves tweeting at least a few times a day, or needing to read others tweets, will need to have this on their first page of their iPhones home screen. Some of the offerings of Twittelator Pro includes the ability to tweet from any screen, paste links, text and images, full reply ability, tweet from within Safari (!), various themes, copy tweets, easy to read tweets, post photos, TwitPic photos show as thumbnails in tweets, delete your own tweets, read up to 200 tweets, advance filtering, in-depth user details, en or disable following, drill down into friends, super advance search, bookmarks, recent, and emergency tweeting. This is just SOME of the offerings of Twittelator Pro!
SvenOnTech has used all the Twitter clients available on the iPhone and without a doubt, we like Twittelator Pro the best. We’ve given the clients a few months to mature and the only one that really has done that is Stone Design’s client. Author, Andrew Stone, has taken the time to listen to our and other users requests and implemented them into Twittelator Pro quickly to allow it to pull well ahead of any other Twitter client for the iPhone. As of this writing, an entire chunk of new features and fixes are on their way and are only waiting for Steve Jobs (our assumption, not Stones) to okay it. Any day now you should see the following in the update:
NEW FEATURES:
- New Twitter Keys panel to insty insert cool graphics into your tweets - tap Guy Smiling
- New Advanced Setting to thread your replies and direct messages right in with your friends
- You can edit existing accounts to fix typos or change password
- Groups show where Nearby is
FIXED:
- Better memory management when memory runs low (less exits!)
- Handles bad TwitPic image in tweet (doesn’t exit!)
- Better error message if you direct message someone who isn’t following you
- Search results with unicode characters appear correctly now
- & appears correctly in tweets now
- & and quotes don’t take as many characters to encode
- No error message if TwitPic times out
- Upside down landscape photos fixed
- Failed image/tweet combo uploads let you retweet them
- increased timeout for TwitPics to deal with their success
- Fancy curly quotes are displayed correctly
Look, we’re like the next guy looking for a free hand-out at the App Store but for a mere $5, you’re getting a quality and slick looking Twitter client that you’re just not going to get anywhere else. Twittelator Pro is just plain and simple, slammin’! And yes, I’ll tweet that! 
Hey, if you’ve been wondering why there has been a lull of posts and then a burst of them, well, my day job is keeping me busy. Sorry. But with the addition to Twitter to my life, now I have — wait, less! — time on my hands.
Seriously, since many times I’ve queued interesting ideas and leads for a story but never got to them, Twitter will help with this problem perfectly. Instead of holding back on these stories, I’ll simply post something about it on Twitter. When I get a chance to flesh it out, you’ll see the full blown post right here on SvenOnTech. So watch my Twitter feed and follow me if you already haven’t. I’m 7Mary4.
I’m not going to turn this into a door step for Twitter and then simply stop blogging technology items. Nope, I plan on actually putting more time into the site; however, Twitter will really help me get MORE information to you as I come across it.
Lastly, you’ll get some insight into who the Sven on tech is. I’ll try to refrain from TMI topics, but hey, it might happen.
For all you Twitter fanatics (yes, that’s me), there is something better for the iPhone. No, it’s not Twitterrific Premium as much as I would hope. It’s called Twittelator and unlike the former, you don’t have to pay for this to get the ad-free copy. Yes, Twittelator is free.
The great folks at Big Stone have decided that we all need a better Twitter client for the iPhone, and while I’ll readily admit it’s not as nice looking as Twitterrific, Twittelator works terrific! I immediately noticed that new tweets are rapidly displayed when you open the application. One of the biggest annoyance of Twitterrific is how it NEVER remembers my last position in the tweets list, so I tested that next on Twittelator. Guess what? It remembers. Nice. Thank you!! Another issue in Twitterrific is the keyboard disappearing when you hit the tweet ballon. No issues here.
The picture tweet works awesome as well. How many times have you lost pix for upload on Twitterrific due to a poor data connection? No worries mate, you just grab the picture from your photo library in Twittelator. Again, nice! You can also take a new picture within Twittelator as well. Twittelator fully resizes your picture to look normal on twitpic (see my first twitpic for proof.) Dude, did Big Stone like fully think this stuff out or what?
If you’re wishing brightkite would hurry up with its native iPhone app, don’t worry, Twittelator will get your geo-location down for you. Not as detailed as bkite, but still, nice.
Twittelator has an easy entry method to add all your friends into a tweet, built-in search for things or people near you, as well as the ability to see everyones tweets, featured tweets, or favorite ones. The great organization and in-depth information on each user far more than makes up for the not-so-fancy interface. And really, it’s not bad; we’ve just been spoiled by Twitterrific.
Now I have to see if Twittelator will make the long haul, but man, it’s already done a better job than Twitterrific. So much so, that I’ve just deleted it from my iPhone. If Big Stone wants to charge for this, I’ll pay!
My favorite Twitter client for the Mac, Twitterrific, will be available for the iPhone upon the release of firmware 2.x. You know, the one featuring the AppStore. According to Twitterrific’s own Twitter account, “Yes, there will be an iPhone version of Twitterrific at App Store launch.” No pricing details or release date was given, but you can expect to see it Monday if the rumors are true about the AppStore being available upon Apple’s CEO Steve Job’s keynote from WWDC 2008.
It’ll be interesting to see how well Twitterrific performs natively on the iPhone as opposed to the Twitter web app clients available such as my favorite, Hahlo. What advantages will Twitterrific offer over the web apps which are offered for free? Speed and history may be the only thing that can be offered but Twitterrific may have something good for us find. Monday? 
If you are ever wondering what this tech-gadget loving guy may be doing through the day, then check out my Twitter account. I’ll be using the site to also post some sites of interest and it will be a great place for you to get some “behind the scenes” stuff I may not get onto SvenOnTech. There are a lot of sites I go to in research for posts here but due to the time it takes to actually type the stuff out, a lot gets lost to the ether so to speak.
Beyond that, you’ll also get some of my witty commentary on just life. I promise, I’ll try to abstain from the gross, though I am a guy so sometimes I may stumble. So please accept my pre-emtive apology.
Oh, try to figure out what my account name, 7mary4, is about, too. I’d love to see if you can figure that out. (It’s not that hard to figure out with Google, folks. )
See you on Twitter…