This evening saw the first episode of the Irish version of Dragons Den on RTE. Like the Irish rugby games against France and Italy I’ve again created a play-by-play analysis of the reaction to the show live as people tweeted on twitter using the hashtag #ddire. People using twitter all used that hash tag to mark their comments and opinions and here’s how each segment of the show came across as a twoud (twitter cloud).

Click on the individual twoud images to see the larger versions.

Before the show

General chatter about the build up to the show in the days leading up

cleancash.com

The Dragons weren’t very keen on this idea and twitter reflected that straight away

Booze Berries

A good product and idea but a nervous pitch

Aqua Images

Something fishy about this one that confused people

Miscellaneous pitches

Cork Life and MumsTown.ie were not a hit

PedigreeCattle.ie

Good pitch by the farmers which drew a lot of cow puns…

“MooSpace”

“Cowzone.ie”

Steaks were raised and the guys came away with the first investment of the series

Post-show

The chat continues..

Stay tuned for the next twoud real soon…

I’ve not downloaded this game (yet!) for the iPhone but it looks like a real boys toy. It’s called BBQ Pro and you can get it from the iTunes store here.

Summer is a long time away but this could be a good opportunity to get your burger flipping practice in over the winter months and make sure you don’t over do those sausages once the weather improves.

Bonus: From bbqjunkie.com here’s a reminder on the rules of bbq’ing…

Gizmodo have a great post today on the best an worst twitter apps for the iPhone.

I’ve yet to buy any paid apps from the iTunes store – to be honest every free app I have does the job – but I still am willing to pay for one if it really suits my purpose.

Essentially, Gizmodo’s final conclusion is:

The Quicklist
• Best Overall: Tweetie
• Best Paid: Tweetie
• Best Free: Twitterfon
• Most Powerful: Twittelator Pro
• Best Tweet-Only: Tweeter
• Worst Twitter App Ever in the History of Twitter Ever: Tweetion
• Creepiest: Twittervision

I’ve used 3 of the apps on their list – Twitterfon, Twitterific and Twinkle – and I have to say that Twitterfon is the best of the 3 by a mile. The cons mentioned are that it doesn’t support multiple accounts (I only have one) and the font is too small (move iPhone closer to your face! That means more content fits on the screen). It’s a fantastic app!

I actually find it more useful to read my tweets on the iPhone with it even when I’ve a computer right in front of me. Although with the fiddly iPhone keyboard I revert to the PC for tweeting a bit. I do use TweetDeck at home but not at work and that is the God of desktop twitter clients for me so the phone is left in the pocket there.

Twitterific lacked some features Twitterfon offers like search, view the current conversation and making it easy to select multiple people to reply to. As for Twinkle, the look of it just annoys me. Looks like it was made in the TellyTubbies factory. I’m not overally bothered checking for people geographically near me too.