Twittle is a mobile Twitter client. No big deal, right? Wrong. What’s cool about Twittle – and what helped it become one of the winners of funding from the Open Screen Project Fund – is its use of Flash. In fact, the OSP Fund, which is a $10 million joint initiative by Nokia and Adobe that awards grants to developers to create exciting new applications and content  using Flash, cited Twittle as a great example of a social-networking tool implemented with Flash.

Twittle, created by Flash Widgets LLC, lets you use your mobile device to create and send Twitter messages (‘tweets’); mark and follow your favourite Twitter feeds; manage multiple Twitter accounts; and reply to your fellow tweeters.

Launch Twittle, and up comes a screen that will look familiar to any Twitter user. It’s a list of your most recent incoming tweets:

There are a few ways to navigate around. One is to use the scrolling banner at the top of the screen. This gives you access to five functions: Tweets (your main list of incoming messages), Replies (incoming, not the ones you’ve sent), Messages (ditto), Profile (your outgoing tweets), and Favourites (tweets from sources you have indicated as faves).

To create a new tweet, simply select Tweet from the lower left-hand corner. Up pops a Flash-enabled text box with the familiar ‘What are you doing?’ invitation. Tap it once, and your virtual keypad will appear. For example, here is my test entry, and then how it appeared in the Tweets:

Another way to access the functions: Go to the Tweets list, then select a tweet in your list of messages. (If your device has a touch screen, simply touch or tap the tweet.) This brings up a mini menu (a cool implementation in Flash) that lets you act on the tweet by sending a message, replying to the sender, or marking it as a Favourite.

To select the option, select one of the small arrows on the left or right edge of the popup menu. The selected icon is highlighted. To clear the menu, first select either of the arrows until the closest icon is highlighted, and then tap the same arrow a second time. To reply to a tweet or message its sender, tap Reply or Message, and these cool Flash-enabled text boxes will appear:

No matter what it’s doing, Twittle looks great. But the functionality has a few drawbacks. The biggest for me is that links embedded in incoming tweets are not live. In other words, you cannot click on a link to open a web browser and follow a link. Since so many tweets contain links to other stories, that strikes me as a serious shortcoming.

Also, Twittle works only over a Wi-Fi or other wireless connection. During my tests, the app did frequently ask me if it was okay to establish a connection, as if it had somehow lost the connection during my session.

Finally, when you download Twittle for the first time, you must save the app to phone memory (C: drive), not mass memory (F: drive). Otherwise, according to Flash Widgets, the app won’t work. Fortunately, that’s not a huge storage sacrifice, as Twittle takes up only 0.17 megabytes.

Twittle for Nokia S60 devices is available for $0.99 (USD) in Ovi Store. I tested Twittle on a Nokia N97 and found the app makes good use of the S60 5th Edition device’s touch UI. For example, I could easily scroll through my list of tweets by dragging the screen with a finger. And with its use of Flash, Twittle always looks great.

A version of Twittle for use on Nokia Series 40 devices is also available in Ovi Store for $0.99 (USD).

To learn more about this app, check out this Ovi publisher success story.

To see Twittle’s Flash features in action, check out this short video:

Are you using Twittle? If so, what device are you using it on? Or, are you using a different Twitter app these days? Let us know in the Comments section below.