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I mostly use Twitter on the mobile web, when I’m on the train. I once tried to keep up with Twitter, but gave up that idea a while ago, now I just tune in and take a dip in the river now and again, there’s always lots of great stuff floating by.

My issue at the moment is I am following too many people, sometimes I’d like to tune into Twitter and just see what my KM buddies are up to, but I can’t as Twitter mobile doesn’t allow you to group friends into a folder or tag stream like an RSS Reader or Friendfeed. None of the services below offer this either, for me this is something sorely needed. There are some Twitter apps out there that allow you to make your own group streams, but I want this in a Twitter mobile web service so I can just choose a tag/folder at will.

Anyway that’s my 2 cents, here’s a quick list of some mobile Twitter services

NOTE: I’m not including download clients or iPhone specific web sites like hahlo (which doesn’t function properly on my phone)
I once installed Blue Whale for Facebook on my phone, and it didn’t stop buzzing. Out of interest what are the similar Twitter install apps for a mobile phone, where you get pushed content without being on the mobile web (and, can you limit this to just replies and direct messages?).

1. Slandr

Let’s start off with Slandr as this is the most comprehensive…I’ve posted on it before, and it was time for an update.

EACH TWEET HAS
- avatar
- reply
- direct message
- favourite
- retweet
- also includes thumbnails from Twitpic and others

CLICK ON A USER
- follow/unfollow
- direct message

REPLY STREAM
- self explanatory

EGO VIEW

This is all public tweets containing a keyword which is a user name eg. “johnt”
- this is important as Twitter will only show you replies where your name eg. @johnt is at the start of a tweet. If the tweet is - coffee sounds good will @johnt be there - I will not see this in my Twitter reply stream as it’s not at the start of the tweet.
- As you can see the ego view is not for “@johnt”, it’s for “johnt”, so it’s gonna pick up tweets where people have perhaps forgotten to put the @ symbol or perhaps they are just tweeting my name without trying to ping me.

Here’s are some examples of Tweets that will not show up in your Twitter reply stream, including a Retweet, which is like a trackback or linklove really

DIRECTS
An archive of your in and out box for Direct Messages, you can also send a DM

GEO

Geo friends
- The last 20 locations from the last 20 tweets from people I follow
- update your location (which I recall you can do from the regular tweet box as well using an L: prefix]

Twitter local
- a stream of Tweets based on location range

Local Events
- what’s happening based on location range

SEARCH
- powered by Twitter Search
- what I’d like to see here is a hot link to Twemes mobile for hash tag streams

EXTRAS

Friends/Followers
- a tag cloud of your 100 most active friends
- look up any user

Public Timeline
- self explanatory

Favourites
- self explanatory

HQ
- Slandr’s blog

Twitter Status
- the Twitter Status blog

2. Dabr

After writing this post I infact may be a Dabr convert.

EACH TWEET HAS
- avatar
- reply
- direct message
- favourite
- retweet
- also includes thumbnails from Flickr, Twitpic, and Twitxr

CLICK ON A USER
- follow/unfollow
- friends
- followers
- favourites
- direct message

REPLIES
- this also merges an ego search

DIRECTS
- create, inbox, sent

SEARCH
- self explanatory

PUBLIC
- self explanatory

FAVOURITES
- self explanatory

FOLLOWERS
A long list of people who follow you
- to get a list of people you follow you need to click on your user name stream (a massive scrollable list)
- unlike Slandr you can’t search for users

3. Twitstat Mobile

EACH TWEET HAS
- favourite
- reply
- retweet

CLICK ON A USER
- no actions

FRIENDS
- self explanatory

REPLIES
- self explanatory

EGO
- self explanatory

DM
- self explanatory

4. Tweete

EACH TWEET HAS
- reply
- dm
- favourite

CLICK ON A USER
- reply
- dm
- follow/unfollow

REPLIES
- self explanatory

DIRECTS
- self explanatory

FAVOURITES
- self explanatory

5. Twitter mobile [THE OFFICIAL SITE]

EACH TWEET HAS
- nothing, you cannot action a tweet

CLICK ON A USER
- follow/unfollow
- friends list

You also have menu links to your REPLIES, FRIENDS LIST and PUBLIC

BONUS

friendfeed mobile - FF to go

Not all my Twitter friends are on friendfeed, but of those who are, I can limit the stream to just Twitter.
Further to this unlike Twitter, as I mentioned at the beginning of this post, friendfeed allow you to organise your friends into folder/tag or section streams.

[ADDED 22/12/08: psychzzz]

[ADDED 18/03/09: filttr]

[ADDED 19/03/09: Set up your Twitter List, Twapper]