Digg co-founder Kevin Rose got his hands on a new iPhone application that a lot of people will be interested in: TweetDeck. Yes, the popular desktop application is coming to the iPhone “soon,” according to Rose. But what’s really interesting about it is his statement that, “I can say now that it’s going to replace tweetie as my default twitter iphone app.”
That’s a bold statement, given that Tweetie has been the iPhone app of choice for many diehard Twitter users for months now. And this move by TweetDeck is an interesting one because it clearly signals a budding rivalry between the two, as Tweetie just recently moved from the iPhone to the desktop as well. Now TweetDeck will move the opposite way. Another player in this game, Seesmic, is also about to launch an iPhone app.
So what features does TweetDeck offer? Rose’s details are scant, but he offers up a lot of pictures. And here’s features he did highlight:
- Column based friend groups! (like TweetDeck desktop)
- TweetDeck desktop syncing (make a change on the iphone and it’s reflected back on the PC)
- Facebook toolbar like status updates
Update: We’ve just seen TweetDeck running on the iPhone as well. Easily the best feature about it is the way you can group those you are following together. I’ve basically wanted this forever on Twitter, and it’s one of the reasons why I really like FriendFeed — and increasingly Facebook. But grouping seems to make even more sense on the iPhone, where the screen is obviously much smaller, and it’s harder to see more tweets. The way these groups are handled is very nice. You simply swipe from side to side to switch between them.
TweetDeck for the iPhone is currently in the process of being reviewed by the App Store. It’s been about 9 days since it was submitted, we’re told, but Apple is apparently backed up a bit on approvals following its big WWDC conference, so it should launch any day now.
[photos via Kevin Rose blogg]
DO NOT WANT
Agreed. Once a Tweetie user, always a Tweetie user!
I would be willing to switch. My love for Tweetie could be sacrificed for columns.
Ohh snap. The different panes is SICK!
Only interesting thing I’m seeing here is the syncing with the desktop app. I’m with Sean. No thanks.
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MG, ask Mike about the Need Anality thing. Also tweetpsych is cool.
Oh, great. Will there be a blink182 version too, instead of putting back in useful features (unread count) like they did on the desktop version?
CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS. I’ve been using TwitterFon over Tweetie but once the user groups hits with this its all over with people
Here in Arlington Virgina it different than my hometown in India we dont use twitter in India the same way your guys use twiter and myspace in the us I mean the other day I go to the Starbucks the lady told me to thing about it she say thing about it Momar if you dont use Twitter the same way it not going work it might work different but not the way your guy want to work I laugh but the true is the true so I take a sit or have a sit and thing about it.
What?
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I agree, what are you saying?
WTF!?!? That post was the biggest mumbo-jumbo nonsense I have ever read.
What I dont understand why you dont understand why twitter it different depend where you use it people use it different in different parts of the world.
I do not ever see this replacing Tweetie for the iPhone, as it did not replace Tweetie for the desktop.
I really don’t like the look of the glossy black, or just as much the black look. It is very dull and emo-ish you could say. I really have never even liked the feel of the black toolbar that the iPhone offered. Black is just not the way to go.
As for the desktop syncing, it doesn’t really matter to be because well… I don’t use TweetDeck as my desktop Twitter client.
Maybe if they switched up the colors from a black, gray, and white feel to a feel more or less like Tweetie, give or take a few hex symbols. Also I respect Atebits for the software that they provide. The simplicity, ease of use, functionality, and fresh look.
Hmmm Looks Interesting. I might ditch Twitterfon if this app really delivers as the desktop version. BTW what is the price of the app or is it free?
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Ooo, fantastic! Will I be able to copy my Groups from my laptop to iPhone? or just gimme an export feature …
TweetDeck took my tweeting to a whole new level. All the features you wish had been in-built in Twitter but aren’t, they are all on TweetDeck.
Impressed with this announcement as with my work colleagues and personal friends embracing Twitter I need a way to arrange their tweets into Groups whilst mobile. I’ll definitely be downloading this app and if the functionality is what I expect then I will be heavily promoting!
ahh, great press; congrats cc and jl!
very much looking forward to this – grouping/filtering is a key requirement for me.
Unless they get some extra help from Apple, their update is not going to be ‘any day now’.
Look at the iPhone developer forums, most developers are sitting on 14-21 day or more wait-times right now.
Apple is either very backlogged because of 3.0 or is holding out until it’s launched.
Since the Twitpocalypse Tweetie has sucked balls.
The Twitterfon update is out, where the hell is the Tweetie update? Stuck in App Store Hell no doubt.
We don’t need it .throw it away .
I’m a little confused, isn’t TweetDeck an AIR app? Any chance this means native mac port of the desktop version is in the works too?
Great! Hopefully TweetDeck will be able to do something Tweetie can’t – include pictures with a tweet!
I thought I would give Tweetie a shot since I’ve heard so many people raving about it. Mind you, This is the first and only application I have purchased.
I was disappointed to find that every time I tried to include a picture with a tweet, it would crash. I emailed the Tweetie folks and they replied saying, “We’ve been hearing about these crashes from people but it’s been very hard to track down (it only happens in about 3% of users). Never the less it is our top priority.”
Now I have two twitter applications on my iPhone. Tweetie for reading/posting text only tweets and TwitterFon (my favorite app until they started serving ads) for posting pictures.
The user face for the new Tweetdeck app is much better than that of Tweetie. Easier to maneuver.