For the past six months or so I had been using PockeTwit as my main Twitter client on my Windows Mobile Professional (touch screen) phone. The graphics looked really good, the functionality was robust…but the app was just so temperamental! It lagged when scrolling through tweets, it gave me random “Communications Error” messages even while on a clean wi-fi or Edge connection and the app completely froze my phone on more than one occasion.
Then I started seeing some buzz about a new kid on the Twitter app block: Trinket Software’s Twikini. Being a good Windows Mobile geek, I had to try it. The verdict? Two enthusiastic thumbs up! Here’s a stock screen shot of Twikini1

The main reasons I’m switching to Twikini are:
- Speed: Twikini loads fast and the tweets scroll very smoothly up and down the screen
- Stability: Twikini has never frozen my phone (always a good selling point)
- Clean UI: No bulky graphics weighing it down, but it still manages to look very good
- TwitPic Embedded in the Tweet: This is probably my single favorite feature – instead of having to launch the phone’s browser to view a picture uploaded to TwitPic, the image is embedded in the tweet – so I can stay within Twikini to view the image.
As of the writing of this post, the only hiccup I found was with password management. My Twitter account password contains some numbers, and for some reason Twikini forgot the numbers each time I tried launching the app. Instead of going right into my feed, it made me re-enter the numerical portion of my password. Strange bug, hopefully one that is fixed soon.
So if you’re searching for a fast, clean, fully-functioning Twitter client for your Windows Mobile device (Standard or Professional), give Twikini a try.
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Again, I stress this is a stock shot of Twikini; I am not following Britney, Ryan and Kim. ↩