You can always pull up Twitter.com in the tablet computer's Safari browser.
Instead, the company is relying on its army of third-party developers to dream up the next wave of touchable software, and they're taking the call. Two days before the iPad even hits stores, several developers of Twitter-powered iPad apps have already shown off or have had plans leaked for their upcoming products.
As you'd expect with software designed for a device that these folks have yet to actually use, some of the designs are less inspired than others. You could always just run iPhone apps, either as small rectangles in the middle of the screen or blown up to double size, but they look clunky.
We take a look at the apps iPad owners will be able to download soon in order to get their tweet fix.
Twitterrific
Twitterrific was one of the earliest Twitter applications for the Mac. Developer Icon Factory also makes a popular version for the iPhone, and it appears the program may be ready in the iPad App Store for Saturday's launch.
The blog AppAdvice has a few pictures of the iPad app. It looks, perhaps ironically, more complex than its Mac brethren -- similar to the Seesmic desktop app. When the iPad is held upright, Twitterrific switches to a stream-like view of tweets, which looks rather strange on such a big screen. Twitterrific will supposedly be free, with a premium version available as an option within the app for $4.99, according to AppAdvice.
