My iPhone has been one of the most amazing tools I have ever purchased. But finding a the best Twitter applications has been somewhat of a challenge after being spoiled by the robust features I have found in TweetdDeck. Some of these include easily seeing my @replies, DM's, and watching #trends, and saving Twitter searches.

Thanks to the twitter community and an an educational discussion from the Diggnation guys, I bit the bullet and dropped the $2.99 on Tweetie.

48 hours later, and its time to tell everyone I know to stop messing around with the others and get Tweetie. Tweetie, just like TweetDeck, hits it out of the park. The crew at atebits have done a fantastic job of thinking it through from the user's point of view.

I recommend that you stop reading now, and just buy it! That is how sold I am on this great little app.

Just a few features to note

• Handle multiple twitter accounts.
• View your timeline, replies, direct messages and favorites.
• Browse your friends and followers.
• Post new tweets, retweet
• Reply directly to tweets and send direct messages.
• Follow and unfollow people.
• Mark tweets as favorites.
• Navigate reply chains.
• Inline web browser.
• Post links with automatic link shrinking via bit.ly.
• Upload pictures to twitpic.com.
• Update your twitter location.
• View twitter trends and perform custom searches.
• Save your favorite searches.
• Implements the full twitter API.
• Uses secure connection (https).
• Go to User shortcut
• Nearby search
• Themes and adjustable font size
• Bookmarklet support

The only thing I'd like to see more from Tweetie is utilizing iphone's push to let me know when I have @ replies or DM's.  But this goes for most of the iphone apps out there, and really doesn't hold me back from telling everyone I know to skip today's mocha and get Tweetie for their iphone right now!