There are plenty of Twitter clients available on the Android Market. I have previously reviewed Seesmic, and was quite happy with its functionality and user interface. One of my friends told me about another Twitter client – a program called Twicca. He argued that Twicca is one of the best twitter clients available for Android. So I decided to check it and compare. Twicca offers all of the necessary and most commonly used features: large number of settings, plug-in support, twitt color separation and much more – please see details below:
The main screen shows a list of twits. Depending on the twitt length and the size of the selected font you will be able to see five or six or maybe even ten twitts. User’s avatar and nickname are displayed for each twit. Links get highlighted, and if you assigned a certain colour to a user, then his/her links will be highlighted with that colour as well.
There are four buttons at the bottom of the main screen: write a new message, show messages referring to you (mentions), direct messages and list update button. The program allows you to add pictures, photos or videos to your twits.
The main list displays your answers to other people, however (unfortunately) you will need to open the mentions window to see their responses . Any message can be selected by tapping on it. This will open a pop-up menu from which this message can be re-twitted, forwarded, marked as a favorite, etc. This menu also contains an option to assign a colour label to the user. Once the label is assigned, all messages from this user will be marked with a vertical strip of the selected color. I really liked this feature, as it allows for much easier navigation and sorting of important tweets.
Further, with Twicca you can select multiple twitts and conduct operations with them. For example, if you have a couple of people whom you would like to assign a common color label – just select them all and assign the color. Color labels can be given names for ease of navigation. There is one major problem with the colour labels – the number of colours in Twicca is limited (and is quite small), and from my understanding, it is not possible to add a new colour.
Program settings are divided by types, which is a very good idea. Besides that, the settings window itself is quite accurate and easy to understand. Therefore, despite the large number of settings, it is not that difficult to understand the options. You can configure almost everything, from font sizes for different windows to different types of alarms for various events (e.g. all twits, only mentions or only direct). You can add Twicca’s icon to the system tray. The program also supports plug-ins, but there are only few exist at this stage, so I will write a separate post when more become available.
Conclusion
I really liked the program, especially its user interface and variety of options. I only used it for a relatively short time, but liked it much more than Seesmic. I would recommend everyone to try it. It is free and is available on the Market.
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