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I love my Windows Mobile phone, but there’s a couple of things WinMo seems to be constantly just plain missing. The first is a good, simple Flickr uploader that has camera integration. Yahoo! Go! sucks. But I digress…

The other, until recently, was a good windows mobile twitter application. They’re either very minimalist (twobile) or bloated and clunky (pocketwit). Then I happened upon Twikini, and… well… it just works.

You get the familiar mobile twitter interface – lines of tweets with the person’s photo, in reverse chronological order. It supports GPS (if my phone had such an animal, boo!) as well as a bunch of other things you’d expect like re-tweets, twit-pic integration, direct messaging.

The one thing it could have done without? The Windows Media Player integration – much like the IRC “MP3 announcers” of the late 90s, people who do this kind of crap should be shot. If I wanted to know what song you were listening to – I’d ask. I guess though, much like firearms and murderers, it’s not the tool it’s the people who actually commit the crime. Yes, announcing your MP3s obnoxiously often over the internet should be a crime.

The best part of Twikini though is that it just plain works. It’s quick, it doesn’t hang my phone up, I don’t ever have the urge to kill it in the background to make something else go faster (*cough*microsoftfacebook*cough*) – it’s just a well written little piece of software.

I’m usually loath to pay for anything for my phone, but it’s only five bucks. I’ve been hunting around for a freeware alternative, but I’m not sure I’ll find it.

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