2009 #topmobileclient Award Voting Is Now Open

May 13, 2009 — John Moore

The voting is completed and more than 600 votes were placed.

Drumroll please…. The Winner is…

Slandr is the clear winner for the 2009 #topclient with 32% of the vote. Congratulations Slandr!

As with the #topclient competition people came out to support their favorite clients. Here are the top 5 mobile clients based upon percentage of votes captured.

Slandr with 32% of the vote.
Snaptu with 24% of the vote.
SocialScope with 15% of the vote.
Dabr with 10% of the vote.
Mippin with 7% of the vote.

The press release for the nomination period can be found here.

Dabr can be found here: http://dabr.co.uk/
SocialScope can be found here: http://socialscope.net/
Snaptu can be found here: http://www.snaptu.com/a/twitter
Mippin can be found here: http://mippin.com/web/index.jsp
Tweete can be found here: http://m.tweete.net/login
Gravity can be found here: http://www.fonearena.com/blog/2009/03/31/download-gravity-twitter-client-for-s60-phones.html
Slandr can be found here: http://m.slandr.net/login.php?return=/twitmobile/index.php
Tweetie can be found here: http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-iphone/

Posted in John's 2009 Award Series. Tags: apps, Twitter. 33 Comments »

tandra Says:
June 12, 2009 at 2:33 am

Slandr … is wats poppiin

Duncan Says:
June 9, 2009 at 10:13 pm

Snaptu – nice app – easy to use

Melissa Says:
June 9, 2009 at 6:56 am

I vote for SocialScope!

Greg Says:
June 7, 2009 at 8:16 am

I vote for slandr, thanks!

Celia Says:
June 6, 2009 at 10:52 pm

My vote’s for Slandr. Thanks

maastrix Says:
June 4, 2009 at 9:38 pm

Twibble?

maybeedeluxe Says:
June 3, 2009 at 2:30 pm

Hey, you guys forgot Twibble – http://www.twibble.de/
and Twittix – http://www.mojosmobile.com/studios/twittix.html
in your poll

John Moore Says:
June 3, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Unfortunately, these two clients did not make it through the nomination process to make it into the top 8 for the poll. We will be revisiting the #topmobileclient award process for 2010 as we have received great feedback from the community. Changes might include the elimination of the nomination process (so that a larger set of clients are in the poll) and a breakdown per platform.

John

Seth Morris Says:
May 30, 2009 at 12:24 am

No links to the apps on the poll? I’m expected to search them to find the links when you clearly have them already?

Lame.

/pageturn

Ray Says:
May 28, 2009 at 12:11 am

Social Scope!!

Kaye Says:
May 22, 2009 at 6:59 pm

I’ve been using Slandr since I started with Twitter a few months back. I’ve tried one other product but so far love Slandr the best. It’s easy and reliable and I really appreciate it.

Dana Says:
May 22, 2009 at 11:07 am

Slandr rules!

easegill Says:
May 22, 2009 at 10:09 am

m.slandr does the business for me on win mobile.

Sim Says:
May 22, 2009 at 7:37 am

I’m using snaptu (m.snaptu.com or http://www.snaptu.com) on my 5800 and Samsung Instinct – I know, but I like phones!

Really is the biz – tried loads of others. My 91 year old Grandmother uses it to tell her favorite grandson how the her bridge games are going! Her name is Joan Collins – it’s true!

Cory Albrecht Says:
May 21, 2009 at 11:52 pm

You know, this really isn’t useful unless it’s broken down by platform. What do I, A Windows Mobile user, care about Treo or iPhone apps? Zip.

John Moore Says:
May 22, 2009 at 12:22 am
Thank you Cory. While I disagree with you I will reconsider breaking these down that way in #topmobileclient 2010. Here are the reasons I disagree with you, though:

- Phones and phone operating systems change frequently. I, for example, have used everything from a Blackberry, to Windows mobile, to a Palm in just the last 3 years. While I may be the extreme example many people transition phones based upon favorite applications.
- The vote is as much about awareness of the applications as it is about choosing a winner. Tweetie was the clear favorite in #topclient (Apple) and PeopleBrowsr (web) came in second. My hope, and desire, is that the other client application makers will take some of this input, determine why these applications won, and bring the key features required for each application.
- While I do not have an iPhone, if an iPhone application were to win I would recommend it to my friends, because the voting public spoke their mind.

I would sincerely appreciate hearing your feedback as it could influence future versions of #topmobileclient.

John
Seth Morris Says:
May 30, 2009 at 12:07 am
Big agree with Corey. Broken down like this means

a) percentage of votes is affected by platform penetration. I can’t trust that the votes mean anything other than what platform has the most users (who also use twitter and who also care about this sort of poll)
b) Reading the results is useless to me. I don’t care to click on every app and then find which ones work on a platform I use

I won’t ever recommend an app just because it wins a popularity contest (popularity IS important since it often indicates ease-of-use and featurefullness, but it also indicates which has a more dedicated fanbase and better community connumication). But I *will* use it as a sequence of apps to check out. It’s useless to me since I can’t even tell from the results I see what platform(s) each of these apps support. I can’t recommend to my friend who has an iphone (thinking… yes, I believe I do have one) unless I want to investigate every app on the list, knowing that I can’t evaluate them without knowing the platform well and therefore I can’t really recommend anyway.

If you want developers (actually, product managers, which is a role not always taken on by developers, even in small companies or open development groups) to look at apps on other platforms, then this list isn’t going to do it. There are groups that do this already because it is a good idea and a fundamental part of product design in *any* best practice collection, and there are groups that don’t do this because they don’t care about good product design and are inventing their own wheel to suit themselves. Both approaches can be good, but getting the latter to change is really about methodology and success criteria. They don’t need a message that “hey, there’s this thing called an iphone and some people like an app on it!” They probably know that.

I really wanted to look at this list for alternatives to twikini, which is just so-so at best, but the 10 or so on the list being spread across I-don’t-know-how-many platforms is a real drag (and I’m not really paying attention since I found that out).

If you want to run it to keep some cross-comparison (a good goal, I agree), try running #topiphoneclient, #topwmclient, #topandroidclient, etc., at the same time and also tagging as #topmobileclient. People will see them all if they have *any* use for them and you won’t drive away people who don’t care.

I guess the question is, as always, who is the audience: the press to report on the poll, the press to report on the results, product developers to brag, product developers to learn, or consumers who have a platform they like and want an app for it.

They’re different goals and not mutually exclusive, but they *do* have different expectations and require some different considerations.
John Moore Says:
May 30, 2009 at 12:18 am
You raise excellent points Seth. Let me give this some thought over the weekend and consider everyone’s feedback. Several people have said the same things and it’s time I step back and consider this more fully.

John