A
little while ago, our own Olly Farshi took a number of full-featured
Twitter apps for the iPhone and iPod touch platform out for a spin, comparing each by features in a convenient table. His declared winner at the time? Relative newcomer Tweetie ($2.99, App Store), whose list of features blew competitors out of the water. At the time, fellow TAB writer Weldon Dodd brought up the valid complaint that Tweetie doesn’t remember where you were in the tweet stream on relaunch.

Today, Tweetie got a major update, which not only brings stream
position memory on launch and refresh, but a long list of other
improvements as well. Version 1.2 of the software brings lots of
integration with outside apps and services, for instance, including
Instapaper, Twitpic.com for pictures, and StockTwits linking.

Usability
improvements abound, including an optional landscape typing mode, a
launch tweets number setting, a public timeline, persistent drafts
across relaunches, cached avatar, location aware radius control, and
image compression control. The GUI gets a boost as well, with a