Twikini: Our new favorite Twitter client of the week

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If nosotros had to option being guilty of just 2 things here at WMExperts (yes, we know the listing is much, much longer than that), information technology'd be a dear of all things beta, and testing out new Twitter clients. And with that in mind nosotros've been playing with Twikini, a rather lightweight client from Trinket Software (@twikini). It'due south simply been released equally a free beta.

Hit us up after the break for a lightning review.

Update: At that place were some issues running Twikini on the Moto Q. A new version has been released that fixes this and adds another updates. Get it hither.

The UI is quick, make clean and like shooting fish in a barrel to read.
Clicking on a tweet brings upward the whole tweet, icon, timestamp and whatever embedded links. To get the user's profile, though, you have to go into the soft menu. Would be nice to just if the username was clickable.
To retweet, yous have to select a tweet, and so go into the soft bill of fare. At first it feels similar this might take a few actress steps. Just when you outset counting clicks, it actually doesn't.
There is support for multiple accounts. (Huzzah!) [update: We're taking back half our huzzah. You can switch accounts, just you lot have to re-enter the username and countersign each time. Twikini says that'll exist stock-still in the next update.]
Automatic refresh options are 5, xv, 30 and 60 minutes. ~~Phone vibrates on refresh, and I don't see a way to turn that off.~~ [update: Er, that was operator mistake. :\ Though now that we've heard the default refresh sound, we've got packs of dogs following us. It's that high-pitched.]
In that location are five themes to choose from.
Integration with Windows Media Role player. Tweet what you're listening to.
Checking for the current version takes you out of the app and into a Web page. Not the worst thing in the world, but kind of annoying.
Don't see a fashion to view all of your DMs, or to ship 1 without typing "d." Non a deal-breaker, though.
Twikini works on all Windows Mobile five, 6 and 6.1 phones, and there's i CAB file to rule them all. Prissy touch.

That's just a brief look at Twikini. Overall, it'south comparable to, say, Tiny Twitter and ceTwit, and faster and smoother (on my Q9h anyhow) than Pocketwit, which is no slouch of an app. But we definitely recommend you give this one a shot, every bit information technology's very well done for an initial beta release.

And speaking of Twitter, yous tin can find all your favorite WMExperts newsings and musings there. Hit upwards @wmexperts, @backlon (Dieter) and @philnickinson (er, me). And thank you to @lokeuei for pointing out the app.