There’s no lack of Twitter tools for the iPhone – TweetFon, Twitterrific, Tweetie, Twinkle, etc.
A new player on the scene is Reportage, developed by Montreal-based wherecloud. Reportage takes a different approach to Twitter by displaying the updates of your followers using their icons rather than a timeline. The number of updates made by your followers is displayed by a small number on the top-right hand of their icons.
You can highlight some of your favorite followers by making them “Stars”, which makes it easy to carve out a small group of your followers from the flock.
Reportage has many of the basic features of other Twitter tools – you can reply to updates, reTweet (aka resend) and send a direct message (aka message). It’s also easy to get profile information about your followers.
If Reportage has a drawback, it’s the lack of an option to get a timeline view. As a result, this makes Reportage a nice one-two punch with another Twitter tool. For example, I’ve been switching back and forth between Reportage and TwitterFon. If Reportage offered a timeline, it would have a much better chance of becoming a go-to Twitter application.
All in all, Reportage is a solid application that should appeal to Twitter users looking for a different mobile tool. Hats off to Martin Dufort (@mdufort) and Fred Brunel (@fbrunel) for creating Reportage.
For another take on Reportage, check out iPhoneFreak.
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There’s no lack of Twitter tools for the iPhone – TweetFon, Twitterrific, Tweetie, Twinkle, etc.
A new player on the scene is Reportage, developed by Montreal-based wherecloud. Reportage takes a different approach to Twitter by displaying the updates of your followers using their icons rather than a timeline. The number of updates made by your followers is displayed by a small number on the top-right hand of their icons.
You can highlight some of your favorite followers by making them “Stars”, which makes it easy to carve out a small group of your followers from the flock.
Reportage has many of the basic features of other Twitter tools – you can reply to updates, reTweet (aka resend) and send a direct message (aka message). It’s also easy to get profile information about your followers.
If Reportage has a drawback, it’s the lack of an option to get a timeline view. As a result, this makes Reportage a nice one-two punch with another Twitter tool. For example, I’ve been switching back and forth between Reportage and TwitterFon. If Reportage offered a timeline, it would have a much better chance of becoming a go-to Twitter application.
All in all, Reportage is a solid application that should appeal to Twitter users looking for a different mobile tool. Hats off to Martin Dufort (@mdufort) and Fred Brunel (@fbrunel) for creating Reportage.
For another take on Reportage, check out iPhoneFreak.