App review: Seesmic for iPhone
Originally posted at the Shufflegazine Blog
The awesome people at Seesmic finally got around to launching their iPhone application last week.
I’ve been a fan of Seesmic from rather early days. To me, they edged out TweetDeck as the Desktop Twitter client to have at the time, having launched support for multiple accounts and integrating Facebook support before anyone else did. Since then I’ve moved on to Seesmic Web (I’d recommend it any day considering it doesn’t use Adobe AIR. But I digress…)
I’ll leave the app comparison for another day, but I think Seesmic’s iPhone app’s first rendition is quite good overall.
The first thing that struck me about the app was the seemingly blazing response time, both in terms of loading new information and response using the touchscreen. By this I mean that a lot of apps I use (I’m not talking just Twitter apps) are effectively hung until their update/reload is complete – this does not seem to be the case here. While I wait for the latest tweets to be updated, I can still navigate around the app freely.
