Twitter for iPhone

• Client: Twitter for iPhone
• Platform: iPhone, iPod Touch
• License: proprietary software, no cost
• Download: http://itunes.apple.com/app/twitter/id333903271?mt=8 (iTunes)

Formerly Tweetie 2 for iPhone, now Twitter's official iPhone client.

StatusNet compatibility

Twitter for iPhone no longer works with StatusNet due to hardcoding authentication to Twitter only, as of July 2010

Although designed specifically for Twitter, you can use this iPhone client to access StatusNet instances as well by customizing the API root when adding an account.

For Identica, you would want to put: https://identi.ca/api

Known problems

Major

• Multiple account problems
  • Can display the wrong sender's name and picture when people on different sites have the same user ID.
    • Upstream bug: Profile information such as avatar images are saved globally, incorrectly assuming that all accounts are on servers with the same user ID space.
• Search
  • Search fails entirely on private sites.
    • Upstream bug: Tweetie doesn't send your login credentials with the search requests, so the server doesn't respond.

Minor

• Search
  • The 'Trending Now' section on the search screen does not load
    • Todo: We need to implement api/trends/current and friends
  • The 'Suggested Users' section from the search screen does not load
    • Todo: We need to implement api/users/suggestions
  • "Nearby" search returns global results; does not actually check locations
    • Ticket 2294: We need to implement location parameters for api/search
  • "People" search does not work
    • Todo: We need to implement api/users/search
• Groups
  •  !grouptags are not parsed or linked in notice text
    • Look into the new metadata features they're adding, see if in future we can output compatible formatting that way?
  • no other group-related features available
• OStatus federation
  • Remote user references (@foo for a remote person, or explicit @foo@example.com etc) aren't recognized and linked properly