User Rating4.19/5Twidroid is a full-featured Twitter client that includes direct messaging, photo posting, replies and background notifications for Android.
Pretty useful for AndroidTapp.com… if you Follow us on Twitter, you’ll notice some of our Tweets are from the Android App Twidroid.
Twidroid is fairly straight forward, icons symbolize the various functions. One gripe we have is the “Back” button icon most times doesn’t work so you have to use the phones back button. The other buttons require you to tapp or hold the onscreen buttons in order to get them to work as they flicker when you tapp them (low responsiveness).
Good news, you can do virtual every Twitter function from the Android App such as: Direct Messages and @Reply to your friends, Post Pics, Paste a URL and set your location with the new Geo feature pulling your location from the GPS. Also, you can Search Tweets and can set background notifications too!
For us, Twidroid is used on about a quarter of our Tweets. It’s really a question of convenience and preference as the G1 has full Internet capabilities so you could very well visit the website and perform the same tasks. But Twidroid can alert you with background notifications.
The user interface is pretty slick. Every function is optimized for thumb/finger navigation except the Direct and @Replies on the main Tweet screen, rather tiny… but the G1 is pretty responsive when you carefully tapp it.
(3.5 out of 5)
Should you Download Twidroid? @Reply YES!
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This looks nice!
I really like this app so far. My only complaint .. when I attach a photo with text, the text seems to vanish. Nice app.
this app is lame when it comes to posting pictures and the interface itself. For one the pictures you upload end up as lower quality on the proprietary site they built to host the pics. If you can’t host quality pics why do it in the first place. Write an xml parser and integrate with twitpic like atweeter for G1 does. The interface when it comes to interacting with tweets is bad because the reply and direct buttons are hard to touch so you are left with the scroll ball to navigate. The entire point of these phones is to touch the screen! What is the point of writing an application with a webview for a website based service. It also pops up an annoying dialog box every once in a while telling you that you are using a beta application. Write it in the title and be done with it. I hope its not a sign of these guys planning on selling this app for any amount of money when the market starts allowing it. Whatever you do don’t pay for something you can get for free! especially something that is supposed to be free in the first place like twitter. Do you see any other twitter clients charging for their software. Maybe on the iphone which is where these guys should take their hopes and dreams for scamming people out of their money…
Folks, snake oil con artists had flashy billboards on the side of their carts too. Don’t get scammed.
I agree with the guy above. The beta dialog box makes me suspicious that they will try to sell you a copy as soon as the market let’s them. If I were you I would try out aTweeter it let’s you get more then 50 tweets but less then 100 you can save to your sd card and it will automatically translate tweets for you! So if you wanted to follow someone that speaks another language you can! Or try one of the other twitter apps on the g1. Just don’t be surprised when twidroid comes knocking on your door asking you for a couple bucks. Research the guy who wrote it he makes enough money trust me…
How do you download this app?
Try to scan the QR Code within this review with Bar Code Scanner or browse this page on your Android phone and tapp on the QR Code. Both will take you to the download page within the Android Market
I use the Twidroid Pro ap all the time.
Very good ap for this phone.
Goo well balanced review here.