iPad Free App of the Week: The New Twitter App

This is the official Twitter app for the iPad. Twitter for iPad sports a really elegant interface that’s significantly faster and more intuitive than other Twitter apps I've tried.

I'm impressed, the overall design is very pleasant. When you’re creating a new tweet, for example, the app brings up a notepad-style compose window, which is very cool. It's easy, tap on a tweet with a link, and the content loads in a browser pane; pinch a person’s tweet to get more details on the author, and swipe down with two fingers to view the threaded conversation. The paned view of content was very cool and surprisingly fast with loading photos and web pages. However, the pinch and two-finger swipe functions are awfully gimmicky: simply tapping on a person’s tweet with a single finger shows profile details and threaded conversations as well, rendering the pinch and double-swipe not necessary.

When composing a new tweet, there’s a location-pin button to share where you’re tweeting from, as well as a paperclip icon to attach a photo. This is a great way to use Twitter and it's free.