When the original Tweetie for Mac was released it was easily the best Twitter client that had ever been. I loved the Zen simplicity of it, and when Tweetie for iPhone was released I quickly became a fan.

Since then, Tweetie for Mac hasn’t changed one bit. No geolocation. No lists. No retweets. And as much as I’m not a fan of TweetDeck, it has become my de facto standard on the desktop.

On iPhone, the story’s a little more complicated. When Tweetie 2 was released, I thought it was great — a natural progression from the already-great 1.0. But within a few minutes I started to notice problems. It was like my phone had amnesia. After a couple weeks of Tweetie 2, I had to give up and move to EchoFon. I feel the same way about EchoFon that I do about TweetDeck — it’s extremely clunky and doesn’t have nearly the user experience of Tweetie. But it works.

For a while I would still go back to Tweetie 2 for one-off tasks. But no more. Tweetie 2 has completely died on my iPhone. It has refused to update the main timeline for a month and a half now. Ridiculous.

I hope Tweetie’s developer gives me a reason to come back.