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title: (Part 1) The Android Twitter Client Showdown
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date: 2016-12-06
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#### Falcon Pro, Talon, Flamingo and Fenix go head to head
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I've been using Twitter for a long time now. I first
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signed up in October of the year 2010, four years after the initial
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launch. I've used is fairy regularly, with a total of 14,800+ tweets and
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have met a fairly wide range of people on the platform. I don't claim to
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be an expert, or even well know on the platform (276 followers is hardly
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"famous"). But, over the years, I have garnered much experience with
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different Twitter clients, starting with the web client as it was back
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in 2010, then moving to the official Twitter app on my old 1st
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generation iPad (no, not pro or anything... 1st gen iPad). Somehow I
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stumbled onto Tweetbot, which became my defacto (and still is, if I used
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iOS) Twitter client for iOS.
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But back to the point. Over the next few weeks, or indeed months because
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I have a busy few coming up, I will be taking a few Android Twitter
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clients for a spin: [Talon](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.klinker.android.twitter_l), [Flamingo](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samruston.twitter), [Falcon Pro 3](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jv.materialfalcon&hl=en), and [Fenix](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.mvilla.android.fenix). All three of these apps offer fast, customizable
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experiences for Twitter, perhaps not with features on par with the
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official Twitter app, but you can blame the fact Twitter is locking down
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their API big time
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\[[Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/sites/ianmorris/2014/08/20/twitter-is-destroying-itself/#77a6716971b7),
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[ITWorld](http://www.itworld.com/article/2712336/unified-communications/the-death-of-the-twitter-api-or-a-new-beginning-.html)\].
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My methodology is pretty straightforward. During the month of December,
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I will use each one for one week, testing and prodding each one to
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unlock the depths. Then, once all (four) have gone through the gauntlet,
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I will then allow myself the freedom of choice -- whichever one I find
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myself using the most will be the "winner".
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#### Initial Impressions
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All four of these support multiple accounts, however with Falcon Pro
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there is a small caveat, which is for each account you want to add you
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are required to purchase a new "account slot", which is about \$2. The
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initial purchase to add one account is on par with the rest of the apps,
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about \$5, Talon coming in at \$3.99, Fenix at \$6.49, and Flamingo
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coming in at \$2.79, the cheapest and also the newest of the four (all
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prices USD). Each one features material design, interestingly enough in
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a variety of styles. Each app has it's own customization, each with it's
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own advantages. Flamingo feels the most tweakable, letting you set your
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own colours for basically everything. Falcon Pro is by far the least
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customizable, however that is not necessarily a bad thing depending on
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your use case and how much you enjoy fiddling with settings.
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Album of each Twitter client's interface
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> "All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the
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> better." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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