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By: palla sridhar

palla sridhar — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:07:52 +0000

Wow, Nice another client for Twitter. But I do not have a i-Phone, so i think its not useful for me. But I would like to know, what is the top client for i-Phone and other mobile apps. Has anyone done a survey? But i'm using Twhirl as desktop client, its cool. My Technology Blog has the reviews on it.

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KillerStartups.com - BirdFeedApp.com - Tweet From Your iPhone — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:52:03 +0000

BirdFeedApp.com – Tweet From Your iPhone…

I found your entry interesting do I’ve added a Trackback to it on my weblog …

By: ghshephard

ghshephard — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:24:42 +0000

I just got a response from BirdFeed – turns out they aren’t handing over location information, and the “Fremont_News” following event must have been coincidental. Kudos to Birdfeed for the follow-up on a support question.

On Jul 2: 9:51 AM, at 9:51 AM, Buzz Andersen wrote:

Definitely not–we’re not doing any posting of user location yet. We do get your location for nearby search, but that’s only posted to Twitter’s search API. If we ever do anything of that sort, we will definitely make sure the user knows about it and is in control of it.

By: Bill Brown

Bill Brown — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:13:06 +0000

I can’t talk about it too much so you’ll have to just trust me that there’s a very valid reason why Twitter can’t just set it up. As the architecture stands, it’s insurmountable and I don’t think Apple will mess with the architecture for other reasons I can’t go into. Sorry, but WWDC was under NDA.

By: Vanez

Vanez — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:19:31 +0000

Tweetdeck for iphone? Too complex, crashes too often plus my mind makes it complicated to do something with it.

I need a simple one like tweetie, birdfeed and twitterena.

By: Vanez

Vanez — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:15:24 +0000

Twitterena and tweetie have the landscape mode to view web pages

By: Darnell Clayton

Darnell Clayton — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:39:36 +0000

I love Twittelator pro mainly because I can customize the buttons!

Not to mention that it allows you to insert audio & video into your tweets via third party (and not just pictures).

By: Darnell Clayton

Darnell Clayton — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:37:51 +0000

Couldn’t Twitter just set this up anyways without Apple’s approval, and then let the apps handle it from there?

Why does Apple have to meddle with this? (or is it really AT&T meddling behind Apple’s skirt?).

By: Ivan Lazarte

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:09:52 +0000

Finally, another Twitter client in the millions available that will eclipsed by another Twitter client 2 days from now when TC, yet again, has nothing interesting to talk about.

By: Rob Wilcox

Rob Wilcox — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:49:15 +0000

As a company who tweets, we’ve been searching for a more robust app to handle our needs. For me, the cost isn’t really the issue – it all comes down to functionality, “uptime” and the ability to share content without Tweetdeck constantly crashing on my iPhone. We’ll check it out. $5? I’m in.

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Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:31:03 +0000

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By: Pascal Wheeler

Pascal Wheeler — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:26:41 +0000

Does this app allow you to group friends? Want to like Tweetdeck but just can’t seem to find that happy place. $4.99 is a big gamble given the amazingly competitive marketplace. Would an ad supported al a twitterrific version work?

By: Bill Brown

Bill Brown — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:22:08 +0000

I was at Twitter HQ for the Twitter meetup at WWDC and push notifications was agenda item #1. The problem is that each app must handle its own push notifications whereas Twitter would prefer to handle push for all of the apps. Apple’s push model is directly at odds with Twitter being the central push aggregator–so I don’t think there’s going to be any movement on this front for awhile. (The individual app developers probably couldn’t afford the infrastructure to handle the Twitter firehose and send up push notifications.)

By: ghshephard

ghshephard — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:07:02 +0000

Thanks for the clarification. I also sent a message to birdfeed support to see what their thoughts are (No response yet, but I sent it late last night).

Here were the time stamps:

On Jun 30: 1:34 AM, at 1:34 AM, ghshephard tweeted:
Birdfeed (twitter app) for the iPhone is what an iPhone apps should be – mobile, elegant and fast.

On Jun 30: 1:36 AM, at 1:36 AM, Twitter wrote:
Fremont_News (Fremont_News) is now following your updates on Twitter.

It doesn’t really bother me that much if it were the case that somehow my location was reported to Fremont news through birdfeed, as the iPhone (god bless it) _did_ ask me whether birdfeed could have access to my location details, and I did say yes.

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By: beau

beau — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:35:36 +0000

tweetdeck is free and syncs with my pc app. why would you choose a paid app that doesnt sync over that?

By: Spencer Schoeben

Spencer Schoeben — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:46:56 +0000

The price needs to be the same as Tweetie—$2.99.

It may be better or may be worse. That’s up to you. However, for the average person who is just looking for a Twitter client will go with the cheeper one.