The list of platforms supported by the official Twitter microblogging client includes iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7. The mobile Twitter client offers the standard features – reading and writing messages, copying other people’s posts (ReTweet), exchanging direct messages, search, managing follower lists, sharing photos, videos, links, search, trending, etc. By the way, using the function of adding photos directly from the cell phone in this application is often more convenient than entering photos through a computer.

Among third-party developers, Twitter has become the most popular social network. Applications to access it were created for all mobile platforms. And each platform has its recognized leaders. For example, Twitterrific and Tweetbot are considered to be the best for iOS. It is interesting that both applications are paid – Twitterrific costs $4.99, and Tweetbot costs $2.99. But due to the usability of the interface (especially carefully designed in Tweetbot), each of these programs has gathered its own, fairly large audience. On Android devices, Plume, TweetCaster and Twicca have gained well-deserved popularity. Moreover, all of them are free. By the way, the multiplatform TweetCaster is available for iOS, Windows Phone, Blackberry and Bada in addition to Android.

Twitter Lite

If you are an Android user and are not satisfied with the performance of the official Twitter app, you can check out the Twitter Lite app as it is one of the best and feature-rich alternatives for it. Twitter Lite displays the same user interface with the ability to switch to night mode, as well as all key features such as bookmarks, moments and more, in a compact and lightweight package,

Twitter Lite is the best alternative for Twitter for Android users

Twitter Lite weighs only about 2.5MB after installation, compared to 60MB of the official Twitter app. The app reduces clutter, animations and unnecessary features in your official app to offer you an optimized experience like no other. The only missing feature is support for multiple accounts and this is something that regular users would be completely indifferent to, while power users should keep reading.

Fenix (or Fenix 2 on Android)

Fenix is Twitter’s most popular client, and it has held the crown for quite some time. However, Fenix is no longer available on the Play Store, and its successor, Fenix 2, has now taken its place. What’s even better? Fenix has also gained access to iOS devices, so you can enjoy a clean, clutter-free (ad-free, and feature-rich experience on your iPhone, too).

It features a scroll-based navigation interface, multiple themes, a timeline (if you haven’t already received an official update) and the ability to customize your experience to suit your needs. You can even find trends, bookmarks, multiple account support, and additional features like mute, multiple drafts, interactive timeline links, timeline image and video previews, an internal browser with readability support, and more.

Tweetbot 5.

Tweetbot is one of the most popular Twitter clients on iOS and macOS simply because of all the good stuff it has. The app was updated to Tweetbot 5 and received an overhaul late last year, along with the addition of a new dark mode, GIPHY support (with auto-play) and true dark mode – something I think every app should have. Tweetbot 5 obviously includes a number of third-party services for video, images, read later and timed sync features to make your Twitter experience awesome.

If you were a regular Tweetbot user on your Mac, the iOS app now offers an experience close to the same. It even shows whether or not someone is following you directly in a tweet, iCloud syncing to remember your reading position, and a feature I use more often than not – profile notes. Tweetbot 5 allows you to add personal notes to your profiles to help you remember why you followed someone, and its features like these make it worth every penny.

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The Apple Find My Friends app will work via iCloud, the new cloud-based free service from the Curtin company for iOS devices.

The main task, which the application performs, is the ability to quickly locate friends or relatives, also owning iOS – devices, using the built-in GPS and 3G functions. Apple believes that the new program for sharing location data and some control over the privacy of their loved ones will appeal to users and will be an important part of the cloud services in iCloud.

The new app extends the capabilities of the current Find My iPhone feature, which provides sending smartphone location data using GPS or WiFi between two devices. Now, instead of sharing location information only between two devices under one Apple ID, Find My Friends will allow location data to be sent to any iOS device.
Announcing the new feature, Apple named the following features of the new Find My Friends app:

• easily locate friends and family;
• settings allow you to show the location temporarily or for a specific group of people;
• privacy controls ensure the device owner’s safety;
• parental control features provide additional security for children.

The application works in conjunction with contacts and maps, so the user gets the opportunity to “catch two birds with one stone” – to lay the best route and show it to a friend. This will be useful if the invited guest does not know the way to the place of event, and gets a detailed map with instructions, and the invitee has the ability to ensure that the guest did not go astray.

For security purposes, there is a “time window” during which the user will want to share information about his location with a specified circle of people. The time interval can vary from a few hours to a few weeks, at the end of which the data transfer stops. In addition to setting the time window, the user can completely “hide” and stop broadcasting his location to everyone.

The app also has a “follow” function whereby you can send your location data to a friend with whom you are scheduled to meet. If the user allows someone to “follow them,” they send their location data for a set period of time, with the option to stop broadcasting at any time.

The Find My Friends app will be part of the new iOS 5 operating system and will be available from October 12, when the new iCloud cloud service launches.

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Foursquare is a popular social network with geo-positioning function. To put it simply, you can use it to mark your current location on the map (do the same “check-in”) and see where your friends and acquaintances are. Just think how convenient it is. For example, if you find yourself in the city center and suddenly get bored, you open foursquare and look at the map, and it turns out that your friend is sitting in the nearby square, and your friend is also sitting in the cafe across the street.

However, this is not the only advantage of foursquare, and probably not even the main one. The main thing – all sorts of bonuses in the form of free services and discounts for checks in cafes, stores and other places that benefit from mentioning the check in your diaries and your Facebook. After all, every such check is a kind of advertising coupled with a recommendation, and companies are willing to pay for it. Garmin hurries to join this international trend and is ready to reward for the checks in their stores.

Well, then it’s easy – press the “check-in” button whenever and wherever you want and get your reward points!

Perhaps the people at the company did not fully understand how successful their service was in balancing the usefulness and gaming component. After all, both before and after Foursquare, there were many applications where users had to leave reviews for different places: cafes, restaurants, stores, cinemas and so on. But they didn’t. At least not in the amount that Foursquare did around the world. And this is also important. The service became popular not only in the States, but also in other countries, where previously such applications could not achieve audience growth and, as a result, a normal volume of reviews, making any such service attractive to a new audience.

Foursquare was able to do this easily and effortlessly, largely due to the competitive nature of the service. Foursquare introduced the concept of “check-ins” and “mayorships” and added a spirit of excitement and struggle to the seemingly completely unplayable sphere. People were chequing at new places and writing reviews on them, chequing daily at work, in movie theaters, and everywhere else they could in order to gain the status of “mayor” of that place. On trips and travels, chequered at popular places, and thus visited them, to rack up medals showing: “yes, you did good, you’ve been to this city – hold the award.” A large part of Foursquare’s popularity was built on this, but one day the developers took and ruined what they themselves had created. In July 2014, Foursquare updated the site and at the same time brought all the check-ins, mayorships, and other “gaming” stuff into a separate app, Swarm. Whereas Foursquare itself remains a program where you can read and post reviews on various places and search for them.

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