Echofon for Twitter
Description of App
Echofon: The fastest leading Twitter app
Echofon is the easy-to-use, super fast Twitter app that smartly syncs across all your devices.
Wrapped in a beautiful, clean interface, Echofon for iPhone packs a punch, featuring push notifications, mute and more – all the Twitter features you need to bring order to your busy social media life.
“Simple and clean” – Cult of Mac
“It is the thoughtful touches that steal this reviewer’s heart” – Know Your Cell
“This program is hot for a reason.” – MobileSpecs.com
Other Key Features:
-Push notifications instantly alert you of new Direct Messages, @Mentions, follows, and favorited or Retweeted Tweets
-Easily manage multiple Twitter accounts
-Mute people, clients or hashtags from your Twitter timeline without unfollowing
-View threaded conversations all in one place to easily keep track of who said what
-Full set of Twitter functionality: Tweet, Retweet, Direct Message, @Mention, lists
-Offers photo previews right in your Twitter timeline
-On iPad, connect to wifi for instantly loading Tweets and Direct Messages
Version
Free or Paid
Compatibility
Device(s) App Was Tested On
Accessibility Comments
AppleVis Editorial Team Note: This app has decreased in accessibility since its initial review in August 2010. Please see the comments below for more information.
Original Comments: This app is excellent, not only from an accessibility perspective. Fully compatible with VoiceOver, this Twitter application has everything you could ever wish for to keep up with your timelines, searches, direct messages and even lists while on the move.
Comments
#1 Works well but is sometimes bound to lag
This ap works very well but in my case unless you set the refresh rate to none causes the app and voice over to lag and take you for example to the bottom of the window when you are flicking left. I'm still testing my theory though.
#2 where's the tweet or compose button?
I'm giving this app a try and I absolutely love the interface, it's nice and clean and it does exactly everything I need it to do, especially push notifications, which is key. I know Boxcar is great, but I don't want to have to install an app just for push stuff. Anyways, what I noticed is there's a compose button, but it's only in the area where your dm's are, so I'm not sure how to actually use this app just yet. I love the way the app works though.
#3 Top right corner, but ...
There should be a button labelled 'Compose' in the top right corner of both the Home and Mentions pages that you use to post a new tweet.
However, if this is similar to the Pro version I really wouldn't invest too much time and effort into this app, as it's been a long time since it was fully usable with VoiceOver and the developers have shown no interest in addressing this.
If you never need to tap on a hashtag, username or link, then I guess you can just about use the current version, but TweetList, Twitterrific or the official Twitter app all offer a far more complete and satisfying experience for VoiceOver users.
#4 Depends what you want from your app
Hi! In the previous comment we were told that there are several far more better apps for Twitter on i-devices than Echofon, but, as far as I'm concerned, that depends on what you want out of your Twitter app. Admittedly, I do most of my tweeting, and reading tweets, on the computer, and not on my iPhone 4S, but I personally find that Echofon meets my needs when I do want to use Twitter on my iPhone: I like Echofon's interface better than the interface of the official Twitter app, I can read tweets and DMs and mentions and reply to them, and I have push notifications in Echofon, which I know Tweetlist doesn't have. So, for basic Twitter use on i-devices, like mine is on the rare occasions I use Twitter on my phone, Echofon is fine. I admit that Twitter for iPhone and Echofon are the only two IOS apps for Twitter I have tried, but I am personally happy with Echofon and will stick with it. However, we can all be thankful that there is plenty of choice as regards Twitter apps, even accessible ones, since we can't all like the same things.