One of the best Twitter apps on the Mac makes its way to the iPhone with some nice enhancements for mobile tweeting.

Author: Michael Hall

As we noted a few weeks ago, the iPhone's not quite ready for IM. Though the latest iPhone SDK includes the components needed to make real-time messaging a reality, the existing IM apps involve a lot of compromise.

Twitter users, on the other hand, may find the inability to run iPhone applications in the background isn't that much of an impediment to their tweeting. Twitterific is one of several apps for the iPhone that make it easy to answer Twitter's "What are you doing?" with ease, and with some interesting iPhone-specific twists.

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