Review of @TweetAgora – A Twitter App | Erin Blaskie | Digital Vanguard, Speaker & Content Producer

I came across TweetAgora recently and wanted to try out their iPhone-based Twitter application. On my own iPhone, I’ve been using Tweetie (which turned into Tweetie 2, which was then purchased by Twitter and named, appropriately, Twitter) and have not veered away from it. I’m the type of iPhone app user that encourages and embraces simplicity. There is only so much I want to do from my iPhone and too many options = too much noise = Erin’s lost interest completely.

So, today I downloaded TweetAgora from the iPhone app store. It has a free version which allows one Twitter account import as well as a ton of other features and it also has a paid account which introduces even more features for the Twitter user. Here is a screenshot from TweetAgora.com illustrating their many features:

Once I downloaded TweetAgora from the app store, I took a quick scan through each of their screens.

There are a ton of features here.

One of the features that draws me in the most is the ability to filter down content into “Agoras” that you can watch or pay attention to. This is particularly helpful when you are attending an event and / or tracking a hash tag. I often find that I’m using my iPhone the most when I’m out networking, socializing or otherwise attending things that I might also want to Tweet about. It’s great to know that I can build “Agoras” before I go and then track or follow them while I’m out.

Now, I realize you can do that with the Twitter client too so maybe that isn’t such a feature draw. In the Twitter app, you can really only setup a basic “search” on a keyword or a hash tag. However, when creating “Agoras”, you can filter it down by lists, keywords and even by person. This way, you can follow a hash tag but maybe only when people use certain keywords AND the hash tag. Helpful when trying to find specific people or specific conversations.

I also enjoy the interface a bit more. The profiles contain more detail in less clicks and it’s easy to tell whether or not I’m following someone and it’s easy to follow them back. You can also mute out noisy Tweeters which is helpful when looking for specific info.

Another of my favorite features? You can look up a person and then look up specific questions that they have asked. I LOVE answering questions and I’ve built a business on doing so. The fact that this iPhone app makes that even easier is awesome. It will pull a filtered list of all of their questions so you can respond directly to that person with an answer.

One thing I dislike? It needs a web client…