Please keep in mind I only tested a handfull of clients, there are MANY others available.
List of clients I tried:
Tweeter(link)
Tweetie(link)
Twitterfon(link)
Tweeter
This may be the simplest client around, it dose 1 thing, Tweet.
I personally think the idea was good, but the lack of timeline and the ability to view other people’s tweets kind of ruins the whole point with twitter.
The client simply contains 3 fields, username, password and the twitter form.
Unless you only need this single function, steer away from this client.
Tweetie
This client is very advanced, Multiple Accounts support, simple interface, splits replies, direct messages, favorites, and allow you to search for nearby users, trends or just view your own profile.
for $3 this is a good buy
Twitterfon
This client is much like Tweetie, but with a slight different look, and missing a single feature the two other “big guys” got, display the ones you follow’s full name, not just their screen name.
This may be nice, but seriously, they could at least add it as a feature.
It also lack the “trends” feature(thanks to those who mentioned that Twitterfon actually got this feature 
you just showed that I need to do my research better), but that’s not really bad, consider it’s free and open source(!) it functions well, and is easy to use.
Twitterrific
This is the simplest client of the “big guys”, no support for viewing dm and replies on their own, no trends, but at least it displays your contact’s names.
In Premium you get access to a white theme, not really my taste, but I guess it’s nice for those who like it light.
One thing i really liked about Twitterrific is that it’s ability to adapt to the user, with a setting where you can set it into “left hand mode” where it moves the twitter button to the right side, so it’s easier to access with left hand, also the ability to customize how to open @screen_name (url) is nice, considering I personally preffer twitter.com, not m.twitter.com as I got a iPod Touch and always got ADSL access when i use it.
Overall Twitterrific dose it well, it’s simpler than both Twitterfon and Tweetie, but that isn’t such a drawback
The free version got ads, which is displayed after every 50 tweets, not really that annoying, but my personal preference is ad-free and then it costed me $10, which is kind of stiff for a twitter client.
Overall
Well overall I think all 3 is very good, but if i had to pick 1, that would be Twitterfon, it’s free and advanced, with only a few missing things that you can live without.
out of the two paid, I’d say Tweetie, as it got a lot of features, but lack the pretty interface
Update: There used to be screenshots in this post, but due to some unforseen happenings(hdd falure and host disappearing) they are not available and have been removed from the post, there will be added new and more accurate screenshots, each of the apps themselves also provide screenshots, so check them out in the meanwhile
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