While third party Applications for the iPhone are hard to come by we have to resort to web based alternatives. The many Applications I have seen are either useless, mobile optimized versions of popular web sites or simply horrible. For 7 days I will be reviewing the better iPhone Web 2.0 Applications, not watered versions but fully functional Apps.

The fourth Application in my review of 7 will be PocketTweets.

I myself am not too fond of the default interface for Twitter, even more so on the iPhone which is why I am thankful PocketTweets is available which is actually faster by EDGE than Twitter itself.

What is great about PocketTweets is the enhanced functionality it brings not only as an iPhone user but as a Twitter user.

The interface is clean and polished but still very familiar to

The update box is shown only when essential and resizes itself to fit the iPhone’s screen whether in landscape or portrait mode.

Updates from other users as well as yourself can be starred or replied to by either clicking the star symbol or @ symbol.

that was one of those things lost from Twitter, the ability to reply to an update without manually doing it. You normally would have to manually enter the user name you want to address and you still couldn’t link to their post unless you included a TinyURL. PocketTweets automates that and provides a link back to their post.

PocketTweets can be visited on the iPhone by pointing your browser to http://www.pockettweets.com

Original post by Chris