No doubt, if you have an android tablet, one of the first things you looked for it a twitter client (presuming you are a Twitter user). OF course, the official Twitter app isn't bad, but it isn't utilised for a tablet. In fact, you will probably quickly realise (as I did), that not many Twitter apps are utilised for the android tablet experience.
This aside, there is one app that fills this void perfectly. This app is TweetComb (i.e. Tweet + Honeycomb). TweetComb makes great use of the screen real-estate offered by android tablets, as you will see in the screenshots below. Broken into columns, you will quickly be able to see your timeline, mentions, direct messages, favorites and other customisations as you desire.
These features aside, TweetComb features all the other standard features you would expect from a Twitter client. In short, if you have an android tablet and are a Twitter user, TweetComb is really your only choice.
In the words of the developer:
TweetComb is a Twitter client designed and created exclusively for the Android Honeycomb platform. TweetComb gives you a tablet-friendly view of your Twitter timeline, mentions, direct messages, and more.
*** NOTE: You must have your date, time, timezone, and am/pm settings set up correctly on your device or Twitter will reject the authorization request. This application does work on every Honeycomb device. It will fail the authorization request with Twitter if these settings are set incorrectly, so please check them. ***
Features of TweetComb:
-- Interact with Twitter in a tablet-friendly way with the only Twitter experience designed for Honeycomb.
-- Read your timeline, mentions, and direct messages with three distinct fragments. Each fragment interacts with Twitter for updates independent of the others.
-- Background updates keep your information up to date on your tablet.
-- Configurable notifications alert you when new tweets, mentions, or direct messages are available.
-- You can easily see what's trending on Twitter and select each to do a search on the trending topic.
-- Stay up to date with the Twitter lists you've created with the new List tab.
-- Bit.ly support for link shortening.
-- TwitLonger support for tweets longer than 140 characters.
-- TweetComb provides an in-line preview of images from twitpic, yfrog, and plixi.
-- When clicking on a link from a tweet, you can view the web page from within TweetComb and can launch out to a browser on your tablet if you choose to.
-- View a user's public profile with an easy to use Profile tab.
-- A Search tab is available that gives you the opportunity to search by keyword, screen name, or hash tag.
-- Perform a Profile Search from an easy to access ActionBar item.
-- See a user's basic info, recent tweets, and publicly available favored tweets.
-- From the profile page, you can follow or unfollow other users.
-- When new tweets arrive, TweetComb will alert you with an audio clip.
-- TweetComb gives you an easy way to use and switch between multiple Twitter accounts.
-- From an individual tweet, you can view that user's profile, reply, retweet, retweet with edit, share, favorite, mark as spam, copy to clipboard, and send a direct message.
-- Quickly send status updates with full support for cut/copy/paste.
-- Support for sending and replying to direct messages inside the app.
-- TweetComb can be shared to from other apps such as the browser, Newsr, and others.
Price: Free
