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I like Twinkle best, myself. I'm a bit surprised that you find Twinkle's rendition of Tweets harder to read than Twitterifics: I think Twinkle has higher contrast, and find it easier on the eyes than Twitterific (not that the latter is "bad" in this department).

Just like daveedvdv, I found Twinkle's interface easier to read than Twitterific's.
My biggest complaint running Twinkle is that it asks if it can use my location every time. I use an iPod touch in an area where Skyhook hasn't done any driving, so the answer I'm looking for is "I don't care, stop asking me, it isn't going to work anyway."

daveedvdv, you think that Twinkle has higher contrast text than Twitteriffic?
That word "contrast"... I do not think it means what you think it means.

I suffered through the inane registration process (OpenID please!) just to voice my fervent disagreement of this review. Twinkle has more features, is more stable, and I think has a better interface than Twitterific.
Hahlo is obviously still the best iPhone app, so I use that most of the time, and I only need a native app for the extra features like adding pics or giving my location. If I can't do that, then there's really no point, and Twitterific is useless to me.

Thanks for the comment, AceTracer. I obviously disagree about Twinkle's interface and especially the look and readability of that interface.
But as the review says, this is a really close race and all of the apps have plenty of room to grow. If any of them rest on their laurels, they'll be surpassed rapidly.
Twitterrific lets you add photos as well, and in terms of location, Twinkle only does that with other Twinkle users, so it's a nice feature that's not fantastic unless all your friends are using it. For such a feature to really shine, Twitter needs to support location natively. (Twitterrific will let you set your location but it's in your Twitter profile so that feature is essentially useless.)
I understand that Twinkle has a lot of fans; to me it feels like it's trying a little too hard, and I don't really like the whole proxy server thing. But it's still got a lot of potential, no doubt.

What about the ability to delete tweets? (ie, I spelled something wrong). Twittelator is the only one that can do that, as far as I know.
If you're going to build a twitter app, it should have, at its very base, at least the functionality of what you can do with the web site. Twitteriffic fails at this, and you have to pay for it.
I actually bought the app (Twitteriffic), and I'm sad that it's not what I would consider to be fully functional. Otherwise it's great. Just add that delete button, and I'll come back.

I completely agree with AceTracer...
Twinkle is just right! And is my client of choice.. when I'm not using Hahlo. How can you not have reviewed Hahlo.. sure it is a web app.. but it is surely the best way to access Twitter....
And if it becomes available in the App Store.. I would happily through a few $$ at it.

oops my apologies.. I got to the end after I commented...
note to self - read the whole review.. then comment.

For contrast, I'm thinking of the meaning "the degree of difference between tones in a television picture, photograph, or other image" (from the Mac's dictionary).

Twinkle displays my messages black on light gray, whereas Twitterific shows them some shade of gray (fairly light) on dark gray. So I think Twinkle is slightly more contrasty in that case. (Other messages are in different colors, which makes it harder to compare -- no doubt it's subjective.) What helps perhaps more is the bolder font used by Twinkle.

Jason Snell said:

OTOH, I've made a couple of new contacts through the "Nearby" pane. I find that's the more appealing aspect of it: Rather than knowing where my friends are (which is easy enough without Twinkle), I get to meet new people in my meatspace neighborhood. I do wish I could filter out some "noisy neighbors" though ;-).

(I don't mind the proxy server as long as it works. We'll see what the future holds in that regard. No doubt the Twinkle servers currently have a lot less to cope with that Twitter's.)

daveedvdv said:

I like Twitterific too, but I admit that I find this aspect of Twinkle really appealing. I used Twinkle in its jailbreak version prior to the release of this "real" version and, while standing in line at WWDC for Keynote, found it interesting to see what others in line were chatting about.

And it also gives you a better hint of what's going on around you in your community. For instance, I can tune into surf and fire conditions from the perspective of others in my area as well as check in with people I know. I hope this kind of feature is brought to Twitterific.

When I first signed up for the "new" Twinkle I was weary of it creating a separate account. But then Twinkle lucked out; on the day of its release (the night of The Dark Knight's midnight screening) Twitter was down repeatedly, and Twinkle was still up, so I was able to check out what the lines were like in town using the "nearby" feature and post my tweets. I now see a major benefit in Twinkle being its own service.

good article.

My 2 cents: unfortunately, Hahlo is still the best one. I tried them all for about a month and had to go back...