Earlier today the news broke that TweetDeck, the most popular Twitter desktop client, is coming to the iPhone. I tracked down TweetDeck investor John Borthwick of betaworks at the 140 Characters Conference in New York City.
Sure enough, he has a version of the new TweetDeck app on his iPhone (which just hit the iTunes store). He was kind enough to give me a demo, which I captured with a Flip video camera. He showed how TweetDeck on the iPhone handles different groups (which filter Tweets by followers or topic), as well as most of the other features as well. These include integration with Twitpic and yFrog for uploading pictures, integration with bit.ly (another betaworks company) for shortening links, and a GPS feature which lets you Tweet out your location.
The best feature, though, is if you want to refresh all the columns, you shake the iPhone. Also there is a hidden, undocumented feature which allows you to reorder the columns by simply holding your finger down for five seconds on any column.
Not only that, but TweetDeck is pushing out an entirely new desktop client today as well which will sync with the iPhone app and include a mess of new features, including support for multiple accounts, unlimited columns, tag clouds for each column, recommends followers from a pre-selected group of 300 accounts. I went to TweetDeck CEO Iain Dodsworth’s hotel to get a video of that as well.
I am with him now. A few minutes ago, he received an email from Apple telling him the iPhone app is “ready for sale.” Here is the direct iTunes link to download the iPhone app. I guess all those blog posts sped things up.
Apologies in advance for the less-than-steady camera work and blurry-at-times focus, but this is the first look at the apps. The first video is of the iPhone app, the second one is of the new desktop app.
Ah, there we go…
Persistent cross-platform Twitter groups synced through the cloud. THAT is big!
Will be testing the new TweetDeck as soon as it’s available to me.
Tweetdeck website is down since 30mn… ^^
Sites back up. It doesn’t appear the TweetDeck client is auto updating at the moment to version 0.26, but you can download it via the site and it’ll overwrite.
Liking the sync and TweetDeck recommends feature.
Sweet. I used TweetDeck on my MacBook and desktop and have always grumbled that the configurations didn’t synchronize. It’s awesome they’ve got that figured out. The iPhone app is just icing on the cake!
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It’s up on the app store
itms://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=318518757&mt=8&s=143441
ah fail, just saw the link in the post
i just downloaded it. it’s sweet. go check it out. it’s free! and it doesn’t even have any ratings it’s so new.
^ You can check the review at iPhone TweetDeck Feedback Forum @ http://tweetdec...phone-tweetdeck
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I am with him now. A few minutes ago, he received an email from Apple telling him the iPhone app is “ready for sale.” Here is the direct iTunes link to download the iPhone app. I guess all those blog posts sped things up.
It’s like a dream come true. Tweetdeck has been the best client ever and it has changed the way I use twitter!
I didn’t want to be, but I am impressed by the app. They provided a unique way to see multiple things happening on one screen and act on it. The cross platform synching is another big feature that will attract tons of users.
Very impressive, I have been waiting for this functionality to be introduced to the iPhone!
Have the memory leaks been fixed in this release?
TweetDeck blows, groups = FAIL
I can’t take him seriously with that speech impediment! I know it’s mean but it was freakin’ hilarious!