Lets twitter the night away with senoritas who do sway!

Recently I have set up a twitter account which I have integrated into this blog and to update my facebook. In essence it simplifies things by only having to update in one place.

I was originally using fring to do this but it was consuming too much ram on my 5800. I tried several java clients but did not like them so stuck with Fring.

Then two new clients came on the block a bit like two buses turning up. Gravity and Twittix are both cheap under $10 where I ended up purchasing Gravity first, then trying a trial of Twittix.

Gravity from Mobileways looks very professional, allows multiple twitter accounts to be added and also allows direct posting of images to twitpic or mobypicture.

Twittix cannot send images but again allows multiple accounts but allows you to look at user profiles and follow people direct from searched tweets, two things gravity does not do.

You can do the usual twitter actions of direct messages, reply, follow, retweet or add favourites with both applications. Twittix interface is clean and simple, you get it to auto connect/disconnect, alter the refresh interval and get it notify you on updates. Whilst Gravity has a nice responsive interface it lacks the connect, refresh and notification features of Twittix. Gravity periodically checks for updates, but sadly you have to remember to look at the app for these rather than telling you.

The winner for me is Gravity as I can save searches for topics of interest. Whilst Twittix can search, any searches are not persistent if you close the application down.

Searches in Gravity are persistent and it means in addition to rss I can use twitter as an alternative to give me notifications of news. Also like Twittix it allows me to go direct to the web page if it has been tagged.

I am also using Gravity on my E90, read my previous post about the issue with my 5800 and web browsing.

In conclusion it would be good to see the features missing from both applications in each other, which over time may happen. Whilst both apps are great for twittering, if you are really into twitter for searching then Gravity is the winner. If you want to send pics to twitpic then Gravity is the winner. If you want to use twitter more for messaging then Twittix is best due to notification, connection and update controls.

New social media apps for 5800XM

Finally Shozu is available for the 5800XM so videos and pictures can uploaded to a variety of social networking sites including direct blogging and twitter updates.

I have also purchased a native s60 twitter client for s60v5 called Gravity which allows you to update your twitter, to follow other tweets, to complete searches and to respond to direct messages and post pictures. It only cost about £9 including VAT and is worth the money.

Shozu is free, however it is not working very well with my youtube account where I have raised a technical support query with them.

This including Fring means you no longer have to be tied to a pc and you can complete and follow updates whilst you are on the move.

Although these applications can all run in the background I have found they are memory hogs and if you are using other applications in addition, these will slow the phone down. I have found it better to close these applications when trying to use the builtin web application because of the memory limitation.