Since the launch of the iPad, I was on edge trying to find the perfect Twitter client.\u00a0 The offerings at first were somewhat scarce but they are starting to come out of the woodwork.\u00a0 There were ones that looked pretty and were easy on the eyes, but lacked far too many key features for serious twitheads.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Others, were just plain ugly with a plethora of features that they used to distill the poor UI.\u00a0 Even still, there just wasn’t a balanced app available… until Osfoora HD landed. <\/p>\n
The mobile application landscape is in full bloom with Twitter clients, and while the competition is a great propellant for innovation, it’s forcing most of us to clutter up our home screens with several clients.\u00a0 All dedicated to one service.\u00a0 This was one of my biggest concerns when getting my iPad.\u00a0 On my iPhone, I have two pages of Twitter clients.\u00a0 Most aren’t used often but I like having my options there.\u00a0 However, the one I have depended on since its launch, Osfoora, has earned a dedicated spot on my dock.\u00a0 When I got word that the developer was prepping an HD version, I was elated.\u00a0 I have had it with Twitteriffic and its lack of features in the name of UI simplicity, and I was getting annoyed with Twittelator’s layout oddly enough (seeing as it was what sold me on the app initially).<\/p>\n
Enough with the personal backlog, let’s launch this puppy!<\/p>\n
Let me start out with how sleek and stylish the entire app looks!\u00a0 My first and main concern was “how easy is the timeline on my eyes?” so after setting up my accounts – which was a very quick process – I hurried to the main view.\u00a0 Finally!\u00a0 There was room to breath and the font fit really well.\u00a0 Along the top bar, you have a quick switch for multiple accounts, a setting icon, a quick view of your profile (which you can edit!), a mark all read toggle, a drafts icon, and a compose icon!\u00a0 That’s what I call great use of space.\u00a0 Along the bottom, you have tabs for Timeline, Mentions, Messages, Search, Lists, Favorites, and Nearby.\u00a0 There is no “More” or “…” tab for auxiliary features.\u00a0 I like this approach because don’t want to hunt for my tools.<\/p>\n
![<\/a><\/p>\nThe iPad’s timeline is much like the one on the iPhone client where you simply drag down to refresh, saving precious space on the toolbar for other uses.\u00a0 You can tap a users avatar to call up their profile which will detail their stats as you’d expect.\u00a0 This is pretty useful to me since I like to see if a person is following me or not because having multiple accounts can become mentally straining to manage.\u00a0 On that note, I would love to see Osfoora HD add the ability to follow a user to multiple accounts regardless which account I’m logged into.\u00a0 This would be great if you happen to find a new user you’d like to follow on more than one of your Twitter accounts.\u00a0 It would save time by not forcing you out of one account and into another, searching, then following.\u00a0 A simple pop-over listing your configured accounts would be ideal and space saving.<\/p>\nNow there were some surprises that popped up (pun totally intended, did it work?) that I wasn’t expecting.\u00a0 First, when I touched a tweet in the timeline or my mentions tab, a tray drops down from the top which offered some more features specific to that tweet.\u00a0 Features like Reply\/Reply All, Favorite, Retweet, Quote, Translate, DM, Email tweet, delete tweet (active only on your own tweets) and Conversation.\u00a0 While I like the tray concept, I feel that perhaps it could become frustrating.\u00a0 It’s easily dismissed by tapping the upward arrow on the right near the other function icons, but it comes up almost constantly since a single tap on a tweet launches it.\u00a0 One idea I had was to suggest the implementation of a double tap gesture or even a tap long hold that would call up the tray view, which would be more of a conscious decision to call up.\u00a0 One ancillary note worth mentioning is that Osfoora truly appreciates and listens to their user base, so I strongly suggest to you who have ideas and requests, get in touch with then on Twitter and through their website.\u00a0 Your ideas will be heard.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nAnother thing I miss here is clickable links in the timeline tweets and the pop-over windows like in Twitteriffic.\u00a0 Again, this points back to the tray view functionality which is valid.\u00a0 I just think some separation wouldn’t hurt.\u00a0 Similarly, if you re-tweet someone, there is no notification to show you did so.\u00a0 Meaning, it would be nice to have something similar to @Twitteriffic’s added text on the tweet “RT’d by (username).”<\/p>\nAll of these critiques are pretty small and certainly nothing that will prevent a serious or power user from using Osfoora as their one and only Twitter client on the iPad.\u00a0 Compared to the rest, these are small potatoes.\u00a0 The bar has been set In terms of design and feature integration with Osfoora.\u00a0 With their track record of constant improvement and refinement only reinforces my stance; Osfoora will become one of the apps we look back on at the end of 2010 and add to our lists as one of the indispensable iPad and iPhone apps available.<\/p>\n\niPad Integration [rating:4\/5]\nUsability [rating:4\/5]\nUser Interface [rating:4\/5]<\/p>\n[rating:overall]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the launch of the iPad, I was on edge trying to find the perfect Twitter client. 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![<\/a><\/p>\nAnother thing I miss here is clickable links in the timeline tweets and the pop-over windows like in Twitteriffic.\u00a0 Again, this points back to the tray view functionality which is valid.\u00a0 I just think some separation wouldn’t hurt.\u00a0 Similarly, if you re-tweet someone, there is no notification to show you did so.\u00a0 Meaning, it would be nice to have something similar to @Twitteriffic’s added text on the tweet “RT’d by (username).”<\/p>\nAll of these critiques are pretty small and certainly nothing that will prevent a serious or power user from using Osfoora as their one and only Twitter client on the iPad.\u00a0 Compared to the rest, these are small potatoes.\u00a0 The bar has been set In terms of design and feature integration with Osfoora.\u00a0 With their track record of constant improvement and refinement only reinforces my stance; Osfoora will become one of the apps we look back on at the end of 2010 and add to our lists as one of the indispensable iPad and iPhone apps available.<\/p>\n\niPad Integration [rating:4\/5]\nUsability [rating:4\/5]\nUser Interface [rating:4\/5]<\/p>\n[rating:overall]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the launch of the iPad, I was on edge trying to find the perfect Twitter client. The offerings at first were somewhat scarce but they are starting to come out of the woodwork. There were ones that looked pretty and were easy on the eyes, but lacked far too many key features for serious twitheads. <\/p>\nOthers, were just plain ugly with a plethora of features that they used to distill the poor UI. Even still, there just wasn’t a balanced app available… until Osfoora HD landed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":834,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2143,2028,2137],"tags":[2175,3500,1993,1300,1592,720,3242,1301,606],"class_list":["post-21208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-store","category-first-look-blog","category-ipad","category-social-networking-app-store","tag-3-99","tag-app-store","tag-best","tag-client","tag-clients","tag-jerry","tag-osfoora-hd","tag-tweets","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/834"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21208"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21335,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21208\/revisions\/21335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_01531.png\"){kind=link}