Get Tweets as Pop-up messages on your iPhone/iPod Touch with iTwitter

Posted by dkszone on July 8, 2009

iTwitter is a twitter application for iPhone and iPod touch (3.0 or above OS) with a lot of features that are present in many Twitter applications like accessing timelines, direct messages, mentions (@ replies), favorites, following and follower lists etc. iTwitter has an easy-to-use interface.

An exclusive feature of this twitter client is the “push” feature which makes a message pop-up on your iPhone homescreen as and when a tweet arrives. This is similar to the way messages are pushed in some instant messaging clients like IM+. This gives you the facility to view tweets in real-time on your iPhone, just by choosing “view” on the pushed notification message. Twitter users would have definitely wished for real-time tweets and iTwitter is one of the first Twitter clients to bring forth this feature.

iTwitter pushes all mentions and direct messages. However a major drawback of this application is that the pop-up messages are received only if the other person also has iTwitter installed. This restriction is definitely an inconvenience to users.

Features of iTwitter