TweetPad is Twitter for the TouchPad, plain and simple 10

There are a multitude of Twitter clients available for webOS smartphones and a growing number for the TouchPad tablet. The latest to join the fray is the aptly named TweetPad, i.e. Twitter for the TouchPad. It's a Twitter client designed specifically for the webOS tablet and takes advantage of the sliding Enyo panels that are the trademark of webOS. The basic layout is three panels - a navigation strip on the left (it can collapse down to just icons), your feed, and a third contextual panel that can display everything from websites to conversations to profiles to images.

There are actually two versions of TweetPad - there's a basic free version that supports basic Twitter browsing but not direct messaging, lists, or search (for 99% of Twitter users that's all they'll need), and there's TweetPad Pro, which you won't find in the App Catalog. You also won't find it in the Web Distribution or Beta App feeds - it's in the app. That's right - TweetPad is one of the handful of webOS apps that you can upgrade from within the app using in-app purchasing. The $2.99 update enables lists, search, and threaded DMs, making TweetPad a complete, if simple, Twitter client.

TweetPad, basic and Pro, still has some holes to fill, like the complete lack of preferences, not having notifications, URL shortening, or image uploading, but for a free app it's certainly not bad, and though basic it definitely kicks things up a notch as far as keeping things simple is concerned, even if does take more than a few cues from current favorite Graphite.