5. Twuner (Krystronix, £1.79)
This mildly crazy app turns your Twitter feed into a radio station of sorts, enabling you to take in tweets in passive fashion.
You can optionally play iPod music in the background, which fades out when tweets arrive; said tweets are then read aloud in posh-robot fashion, before your music returns. Various voices and speech rates, inline transcripts, and support for multiple accounts ensure Twuner can be tuned to suit.
6. Ego (Garrett Murray, £1.19)
Although not strictly a Twitter app, Garrett Murray's Ego stats tracker includes support for the service. If you don't want to mix with your peons, but are nonetheless intrigued by their current number, Ego provides the best-looking means around of tracking such values; and if you're also a Google Analytics, Mint, Feedburner or Squarespace user, Ego's a must-buy.
7. Boxcar (Jonathan George, £1.79)
If you're forever missing (or avoiding) Twitter direct messages and mentions, Boxcar places such things front and centre by using OS 3.0's push notifications.
Usefully, this app is big on simplicity and low on ego, since once you have your message, it hands you over to your favourite Twitter client.
Boxcar's perhaps on borrowed time, until your favourite client bundles similar push notification, but for now it's a one-trick pony with a particularly shiny coat and good teeth.
8. Birdfeed (System of Touch, £2.99)
Although not a particularly distinctive Twitter client in many ways, Birdfeed is nice enough, offering a clean, simple means of accessing multiple accounts. However, it offers two features that make it worth consideration: timestamp indicators help you find where you last stopped reading a stream, and local caching enables you to catch up on past tweets when on an airplane, in a submarine, or in the bit of your correspondent's garden where the network inexplicably cuts out.
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