- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: iPhone, iPhone OS 3.x
- Date added: September 15, 2009
- Total Downloads: 1,118
- Downloads last week: 19
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Jessica Dolcourt on September 15, 2009
It may not be the absolute glossiest Twitter app for iPhone and iPod Touch, but the newly-renamed Echofon for iPhone is among the fastest and easiest to use. Your friends' timeline, the logical default screen, show new tweets in blue, for instant recognition. It's joined by screens to filter out tweets in which your own handle name is mentioned, your direct messages, and your favorites. There's also a search screen that can search for people and topics, can turn up trends--some of the popular topics at any given moment--and can also tap your geolocation to display public tweets from people nearby. You can even specify the mile radius.
The built-in browser keeps the Web pages of the links you follow within the app. You can view any user's profile, add new contacts and block them, and quickly send a reply or direct message in a response to a tweet. Tapping a single button makes retweeting easy as pie. Perhaps the most useful auto-fill timesaver is in the composition window, where you can tap one of three buttons to geotag your tweet, take or upload a photo, and select a Twitter buddy to reply to.
There are limitations, however. The browser is the only part of the app that supports landscape mode, you cannot delete direct messages, and push notification is reserved for the pro version.
Publisher's description
From Kazuho Okui :Echofon is a simple, clean, easy to use, and is a superfast Twitter client for your iPhone and iPod Touch. Echofon is focused on ease of use and 80% of your daily Twitter tasks, such as see your friends/replies/messages timeline, see favorites, and send/reply a tweet. You can also search tweets, get twitter trends, upload photos to twitpic.com, and update your location information.
CNET Editor's Note: The "Download Now" link directs you to the iTunes App Store, where you must continue the download process. You must have iTunes installed in order to open the link, and you must have an active iTunes account to download the application. This download may not be available in some countries.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.1 fixes a bug and changes the application name from TwitterFon to Echofon for iPhone.
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