I’ve tried all the Twitter clients in the Android Market, and always return to Twidroid Pro. Twidroid is one of the earliest and most popular Twitter apps on the Android platform. I prefer the way it works to competing apps, mostly because of its interface. is superior for quick information consumption and action.

Twidroid Pro

I think Twidroid offers the highest number of features of any Android client, and its interface is very good for quickly collecting and acting on information in your streams. Unlike single-service apps like Seesmic or Mustard, Twidroid supports Twitter as well as Identica and StatusNet installs. The Pro version can combine all your accounts, across all services, into one stream, or display each one individually. When you select a tweet, a menu pops up that provides you with every option you may want to perform (reply, follow a link, view conversation, etc.). Critically, selecting a tweet does not slide you over to a view of the single tweet, which is time-consuming and idiotic, just so you can follow a link. One feature I frequently use is”view conversation,” which puts messages in context. This feature is all the more impressive because it is not in the native Twitter or StatusNet API.

Twidroid provides notifications and widgets just as you’d expect on the Android platform. Twidroid is free, but you must purchase Twidroid Pro to access multiple accounts. It’s worth every penny, in my opinion.