Smartphones were made for social networking like Facebook and Twitter (well, they actually weren’t but this surely accounts for a large percentage of their use these days) and it has never been easier to keep track of what your friend list is up to at any time of the day or night. Here is our pick of the best social networking apps across all smartphone platforms.

There are tens of thousands of apps available for Android phones, so picking the best of them can be a bit hit and miss. This series of articles will give you some of our top picks of the apps available, in a variety of different categories. This first article is a list of our 10 must have apps, in no particular order.