Best social networking apps. Facebook, MySpace and Twitter apps to keep your friends, family and co-workers updated on your latest musings.
Could become an excellent tool in the future, but this first release is patchy.
£5.99
Shows enormous potential, but there’s a long way to go before the app will be worth your time.
£2.49
An app for the socially active, Foursquare rates by how often you check-in and out of specific local venues.
FREE
Looking for a free cross-platform texting app that ‘just works’? Try the reliable PingMe Messenger.
FREE
While limited in purpose and lacking multiple-account support, Friend Check provides a handy snapshot of friends in your social networks.
£0.69
It’s lost Twitter from its name, but this is still for hardcore 14-character writers
FREE
An app with some useful features, but doesn’t make quite enough of a case for using yet another messaging app.
FREE
Tweetie 2 is the discerning Twitterer’s Tweeting app of choice for the iPhone.
£1.79
Upload plug-in for Facebook is the fastest way to share photos and videos on Facebook
FREE
There are niggles, and it won’t be for everyone, but it’s a good app and quietens Facebook’s noise.
FREE
Handsome, clever, and full of potential, Friends has yet to hit the mark but should mature well.
£0.69
Microsoft’s dedicated Facebook app aims to deliver all your mobile social networking needs.
FREE
Fire up your GPS and let this app tell people your current location via email using online maps.
FREE
The location-based social networking site comes to Windows Mobile, allowing you to play along with your other mobile friends.
FREE
A nice app, and one well-designed for its purpose, but we’re not sure that its purpose really warrants the cost.
£1.49
Free Facebook from the web with this mobile app, which brings social networking functionality to your phone.
FREE
Integrate Windows Live Messenger into your BlackBerry with this free application
FREE
Twitter app that gets the basics right, but the price for Pro is difficult to justify.
£2.49
Shozu promises to combine all of your social networking sources into one bubbling pot of tweets, updates, super-poking and comments.
£3.69
A useful group messaging app that’ll surely become a serious force worldwide when it launches outside the USA.
FREE
One of the best looking and intuitive apps, which caters to all your Twittering needs.
£3.25
Apple’s personable take on Google Latitude impresses by keeping things simple.
FREE
The application from the blogger on the go who likes to use the BB keyboard to tap out some thoughts
FREE
With Twitter clients so common now, Quip’s new twist on the regular Twitter timeline view, smart features and great design make for refreshing viewing.
£1.99
Foursquare encourages you to get out and explore your city and meet your friends more.
FREE
Get to your MySpace page on the go, with this app that’s specially made for Android handsets.
FREE
For the control freak Twitter user, this is a super powerful application that will help you manage your social networking life
FREE
The brilliant do-it-all Twitter widget makes an early debut on the tablet and makes an instant impact
FREE
The world’s biggest and most popular social networking website works fantastically on the iPhone.
FREE
A bit of a solution in search of a problem, but it’s done nicely enough, and it’s free. Give it a whirl and see if it suits!
FREE
A time-saving app for those that use Facebook and Twitter equally, but it’s undone by some sloppy elements.
£0.69
Find your family and friends wherever they are at any time of the day with HeyWAY.
£0.59
It could be useful, no doubt, but we’re not sure how many people will use it properly.
FREE
For those who take Twitter very seriously, Seesmic brings extra functionality of the site to your Android handset.
FREE
Featureful, well thought-out and looks gorgeous too. Never forget that anniversary again!
£1.99
Photobox.com has shot to prominence as Europe’s number one online photo service in recent times, so it’s about time it got its own iPhone app.
FREE
What could be a useful World Cup 2010 calendar is wrapped up in a horrible invite system
FREE
Sadly, there are too few Echoes to be useful, and those that do exist read like marketing blurb.
FREE
Mobnotes brings Twitter, Facebook and location based services to one app, in your pocket…
FREE
If you’re chatting across platforms or on an older iPad, you should definitely give Skype a look.
FREE
One of the most popular applications ever from BlackBerry used by countless people everywhere
FREE
Socially aims to make social networking (Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn) more ‘natural’…
FREE
Sports a reasonable set of features, but it isn’t pretty and lacks a sync feature.
£2.99
Twittering for the BlackBerry finally gets an official overhaul to offer up all the basic functions on your BB
FREE
Microsoft’s freely available MySpace app lets you access your account on the move.
FREE
LinkedIn on iPhone puts your entire professional network on the end of your index finger.
FREE
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