Just over 10 months ago, there came an app on the App Store that kicked the living daylights out of every other twitter app present during that time. It was clean, super-easy to use, fast, had butter-smooth scrolling and yet had a feature-set that could easily put others to shame. This was Tweetie 1.0 back in November, when I pronounced it the ‘Supreme Champion among the iPhone twitter clients’.
But the race to build the ‘uber’ twitter iPhone app didn’t stop. Many others copiously rose up and tried their hands at building the next-gen twitter app, their own implementation of awesomeness. Some managed to gather a small group of following, some failed miserably. But no warrior could dethrone the reigning champion on the App Store. While others rose and fell, this mighty app continued to grow, both in terms of features, popularity and fan-following. It was set. No conversation about twitter clients (on any platform) would ever be complete without Tweetie getting a special mention. The crowds had converted. Tweetie 1.x was arguably the best app on the App Store. And its developer couldn’t be more happy.
But then came along Twitterrific 2.0. The most awaited release of the year, it brought along a completely redesigned UI and with that, a feature-set that put Tweetie’s in the dumps in the blink of an eye. Then came along the decisive 2.1 update. It was the Return of the King indeed. It pulled users like it expected them to, but many, like me, held on to Tweetie, knowing that one day, Loren would come out of his batcave and announce the next iteration of the app.
Yesterday, was that day.
In a post at the Atebits blog, Loren Brichter, Tweetie’s developer extraordinaire (or more popularly known as the man-who-never-sleep and presumably survives on Xcode fuel) speaks the nifty details about Tweetie 2.0, both for the Mac and the iPhone.
While we could soon see Tweetie for Mac arriving in the next few weeks, Tweetie for iPhone is feature complete and will be submitted to the App Store and its endless approval process will have us on our toes. Till then, this writer, who has been Beta testing the app for just over two weeks now, brings you the definitive look at Tweetie 2.0 and what to look forward to when it hits the App Store.
A Complete Rewrite
One of the most stunning feature of Tweetie 2.0 is one that most users will never come to know about. Tweetie 2.0′s code base is a complete rewrite of the original iPhone app. This has allowed the developer to combine the codebases of the iPhone and Mac app, thus we can expect more release cycles for the Mac app as changes are easy to push out on the Mac platform.
The iPhone app is also fantastically fast when switching between views and still has the butter smooth scrolling as the 1.x version had. All through the beta, the app has been optimized for optimum performance and it is evident when using this app, even on my aging first-generation iPhone.
Persistence
I consider this feature to be the one that stands out from the rest. Tweetie 2.0 features complete persistence, so no matter what view you’re in, you can quit the app, launch another one and return back to Tweetie and continue from exactly where you left off. This, coupled with the speed of the iPhone 3GS and the third-gen iPod touches, pretty much feels like multi-tasking or switching between apps instead of quitting and launching.
Same native and simple UI
Back in November, when I first reviewed Tweetie, I was extremely happy that Tweetie implemented all of its feature-set while keeping a native and simple UI. The app looked like any other default app on the iPhone. Tweetie 2.0 continues to feature the same native UI, but also brings along some refreshing UI elements. The tab bar at the bottom has been visually refined with some delicious icons, but minus the text labels. The ‘favorites’ section has made its way for ‘Search’, which finds its own special place there. Additionally, the timeline, @mentions and the DM view icons all display a tiny blue glowing dot to notify you if new tweets in that section. A lot of users wished this feature in Tweetie and I’m glad this has been neatly implemented. As a touch of class, Tweetie 2.0 features a tiny chevron above the section/view that’s currently active. What’s more, the chevron glides along the tab bar when you change the view. Needless to say, there are many more such finer details in the app.
Improved Timeline and Views
With this new version, the timeline has had a visual refresh as well. Gone are the three different themes in the app, as Tweetie 2.0 now features a single white theme for the timeline and @mentions and DMs. This, however, might not go well with a bunch of users who’d gotten fond of the iChat like bubbles theme.
Similar to the Mail.app, Tweetie 2.0 now features the Search/Filter field at the top, which is activated by simply pulling down the timeline when you’re at the top. Here, you can go on typing and watch how effortlessly Tweetie 2.0 will filter your tweets for you.
The individual tweets are also assigned specific icons depending on their status. If there’s an image link in the tweet, there’s a small icon next to the time stamp that tells you so. When a tweet a marked as favorite, it is indicated with a nice golden-yellow star at the top-right of the tweet and when twitter implements their Project Retweet, the retweets by other users will show up in your timeline with a red arrow in place of the golden-star.
The Swipe (I like to call it the swipe-to-awesomeness) feature that Tweetie pioneered in v1.x is also greatly refined in Tweetie 2.0. While Tweetie 1.x only had icons to either Reply, View user’s profile or favorite the tweet, Tweetie 2.0 now features five icons where you can Reply to tweet, pull up URL specific options ( Open URL, Mail Link, Repost Link or Read Later), View user’s profile, Favorite the tweet and ‘More’ which brings up options to Retweet, Quote Tweet, Post Link to Tweet, Mail Tweet and Translate ). These options are also available when you single-tap the tweet and view details about that single tweet.
The view when viewing a single Tweet has also been refreshed (Hello pinstripes! yuck) While it functions more or less the same way, you can now travel through next/previous tweets by using the navigation buttons at the top right or simply pushing the tweet up or down. Similar to the previous versions, Tweetie 2.0 still takes you the user’s profile and opens up the display picture upon hitting the user’s thumbnail.
While Tweetie 1.x could already navigate the reply chains using the in-reply-to-status-id parameter of the API, it lacked the threaded conversation view that was introduced in Tweetie for Mac. Tweetie 2.0 now features the same threaded conversation view, which can be activated using the ‘in reply to’ button when viewing a single tweet view. Moreover, the app now features a threaded DM view too, similar to the Mac app.
The User Profile view in the app has changed as well. Tweetie 2.0 now supports Address Book integration, so hitting the tiny icon next to the display picture brings up the Address Book sheet, allowing you to create a new contact or add to an existing one. Of course, you can even share this contact. Tapping the location field opens up the integrated map view while hitting the URL opens it in the integrated view, seamlessly. While you can still view the users tweets, his @mentions, following and followers’ lists and favorites, the black tab bar gives you easy access to navigate.
Sadly, the delicious orange or blue button to follow or unfollow someone has been replaced by a rather pale looking cell. However, in case of multiple accounts, you can now choose which accounts you want to use to (urn)follow that user. Similarly, this works when blocking someone too.
When viewing your own profile, you can now edit most of the fields through the phone and save them and I think Tweetie is the first app to support this.
This view also has options for the various services that Tweetie 2.0 integrates, but we’ll talk about that later.
Improved Compose Screen
Tweetie 2.0 features a vastly improved Compose screen. As Loren notes in one of the beta emails that he sent out, the beauty of an on-screen keyboard is that you can make it disappear. This has allowed him to include a ton of functions accessible right behind the keyboard. Tapping a little tiny rectangle, that also includes the character count, allows you to access these features. Again, as a touch of class, the rectangle rotates 180 degrees, with the triangle pointing according to the state of the keyboard. While the old features – Taking a photo, adding an photo from the library, geo-tagging (temporarily adds a map link until twitter’s geolocation API goes live), and shrink URLs are all there, the developer has added two new features – the ability to quickly add usernames and recently use hashtags.
Interestingly, when replying to a tweet, pulling down the text-area shows you the tweet that you’re currently replying to.
The compose window also supports multiple attachments and you can easily add, remove and upload them with Tweetie 2.0. What’s more, the app now supports video tweeting to services like twitvid and yfrog, but due to the abundant supply of free iPhone 3GS in India, this author was unable to test this feature.
Integration of Services
Along with a ton of new features, Tweetie 2.0 also features of bunch of integrated services. When viewing a user’s profile, you can view the user’s profile on the following services, right within tweetie.
- Tweet Blocker
- Follow Cost
- Favstar.fm
- Favrd
- Tweeteorites
All these services can be switched On/Off as per your requirement.
Tweetie 2.0 also supports integration with with the Twitlonger service. Not only can you tweet more than 140 characters, you can also view someone else’s tweet, which Tweetie 2.0 seamlessly expands in the same view.
Tweetie 2.0 also makes use of the TextExpander SDK, so you can use your snippets in this app too.
Tweetie 2.0 also supports URL previews, so you can preview any short URL, just like on the Mac app.
While twitter is still working on their Project ReTweet and the GeoLocation API, Tweetie 2.0 already supports out-of-the-box integration for these services. So if and when twitter enables these services publicly, Tweetie 2.0 will “just work”.
One very important feature of Tweetie 2.0 is that it will sync your saved services between the app and twitter’s web interface. So any new additions in the app will still be available on the web view. Moreover, when Tweetie for Mac launches in the coming weeks, it will hopefully have the same feature built right into it.
Full Landscape Support
This was probably one of the most wished for feature by the users of Tweetie 1.x. While tweet 1.x did support landscape keyboard, it was a very stupid and half-hearted implementation and didn’t make any sense at all. Thankfully, Tweetie 2.0′s Landscape mode supports works by making use of the accelerometer, and the setting can easily be configured in the Settings.
Drafts Management
Tweetie 2.0 also features a robust Draft Management feature. The app now not only allows you to store multiple drafts within the app, but it also stores the drafts with their meta information. So your tweets, replies to a user, Direct Message to someone or even Photo attachments are marked accordingly. What’s more, Tweetie 2.0 features Birdhouse integration, so you can save these tweets to Birdhouse. Or if you’re feeling spammy, there’s a ‘Send all’ button too, that, well, posts all the drafts to twitter simultaneously.
Read Later
While Tweetie 1.x already had Instapaper integration, Tweetie 2.0 extends this support for Read It Later too. You can choose and configure the service you use in the app’s settings and I’m sure this is going to make a lot of people happy, including our Editor. Tweetie allows you to directly add the contents of the URL to Read Later, so you don’t always have to open the webpage in the inline browser or Mobile Safari for this.
Settings are not in the settings app
Remember this ? Well, not any more. As Loren outlined at the end of that post, Apple does not allow executing code in the Settings app and hence, Tweetie 2.0 now has its Settings within the app (Do I hear people cheering?)
There are a bunch of configurable options in the Settings, such as choosing whether to display the username or full name, whether the date format should be relative or absolute, font sizes. Also, Tweetie 2.0 supports a bunch of URL Shortening and Image Uploading services, including my favorite img.ly and supports video uploads to twitvid and yfrog.
As a bonus, Tweetie 2.0 lets you track your URLs shortened using bit.ly by letting your use your login and API key within the app so your URLs are shortened with your own authentication.
Custom End-Points and Protocol Handlers
This feature will probably be the most underused feature of the lot, and it’s only the geeky ones out there who’d possibly want to use this feature. Tweetie 2.0 features Custom API End-Points. What this means is, you can use your own favorite URL Shortening or Image Uploading service with Tweetie 2.0. Your service must implement a bit.ly and twitpic like API for URL shortening and image uploading respectively. Atebits is going to have a dedicated section on the site with detailed documentation for this soon.
What’s more?
There is a whole lot more to Tweetie 2.0 than what I’ve detailed above and I’m probably missing out on a few features too. There are subtle features like full in-app rich HTML email sheets – so you can easily email your entire DM conversation in full HTML glory for your reference. If a tweet has a link to any of the integrated image uploading services, viewing the single tweet view will also show a preview of the Image that is being linked. The app also features device notifications on a per-user basis. With Tweetie 2.0, Loren has managed to make the best, even better. If you were a Tweetie 1.x user, there’s enough reasons for you to move to Tweetie 2.0.
Tweetie 2.0 is going to be a completely new app and will cost $2.99 in the App Store and looking at what it brings along, $2.99 is a steal deal. Even then, there are numerous voices of unhappy users complaining that they should’ve received a free upgrade to the app. Of course, these are the small group of people, but it highlights how badly the App Store needs to be fixed. However, I’d still be willing to pay more than the list price for an upgrade, because Tweetie has been the one single app on the iPhone, apart from Mail that I keep using on my iPhone round the clock. Now whether you want to go grab a coffee at Starbucks or go purchase Tweetie 2.0 when it hits the App Store is your own decision to make. To me, this is truly Tweetie 2: Revenge of the Loren.
Update: Now available at the App Store.
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Looks good, might have to give up on Twitterific again!
Looks fantastic! Can’t wait. And Read it Later support? Brichter must have been high on LSD at the time—the good kind.
[sarcasm] And thank you for beautifying the Profile view. The pin stripes look sooooo good. [/sarcasm]
Three things kill it for me:
1. No Posterous support for photos/videos
2. No “real” push support (for DMs and @s)
3. It’s petty…but the single theme is horrible!
I used to love Tweetie 1.x but since I moved to Simply Tweet I haven’t looked back.
I guess I was just hoping for more with 2.x
@flossy
More??? Thats already a bunch of stuff thats been added to the app. The number of updates alone to the app can rival full feature sets of lesser twitter apps. Give Loren a break, he’s worked hard and it’s awesome.
I understand he’s changed a LOT since 1.x, it’s just that there’s a lot of competition for Twitter apps now, and most have more features. So there’s not enough there to pull me (and I’m sure a lot of other people) back.
It’s just my opinion of course and I’m sure I’ll end up buying it to try it out anyway! Loren is a great guy and I’m not going to stop stop supporting him just because I don’t use his app.
Really Flossy? What does SimplyTweet have that’s special other than push?
Nothing major. I just prefer it to Tweetie and like having the option of push notifications, posting to my Posterous blog is also really useful. All my opinion obvously, I know a lot of people have push turned off!
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Sorry, that was meant to be a
at the end there!
@Milind I know man, good lord I know (as I post this on a pinstriped iPhone interface). Even if he was to keep it on the user profile screen, the previous top background with the info button while viewing a single tweet looked much, much nicer.
Nonetheless, Tweete 2.0 is awesome (only gripe I have) so jump on it when it flies it’s wings in the App Store soon.
Looks great. Can’t wait to pay for it.
also waiting for it, and i’ll buy that as soon as it’s available.
posterous would be the thing i’d ask, it’s also my way of sharing video/photos.
i find the usual suspects (twitpic, etc.) a mess with all the ads, and posterous is just lovely.
it would be handy to have it in tweetie, instead of mailing the thing and opening in mobile safari before sending it to tweetie via bookmarklet. messy, but that’s how it’s going to be…
(great review, btw, as usual)
Oh look my name!
Looks great! I can hardly wait.
The only thing that annoyed me about Tweetie 1.x is that I couldn’t tap in the top bar to scroll to the top. Has that changed in 2.0?
@Mike,
The tap-menu-bar-to-scroll-to-top is pretty much possible in any native iPhone app, including Tweetie 1.x. I am just doing that while I type this message.
Might consider paying for the upgrade, but I agree with Flossy – SimplyTweet is my iPhone Twitter client of choice.
@brandon
Why get so jumpy about @flossy preferring SimplyTweet over Tweetie. I agree Tweetie 2.0 is a major update (and I will surely shell out $3 to support it) but I too prefer SimplyTweet, it is a very nice application with a lot of nice features.
Looks great, but I can’t believe that links still don’t seem to be clickable in the timeline. This is why I keep going back to Twitterfon/Echofon…
Does it have Flickr support? Nobody said anything about it and a lot of people are looking forward for it…
Can you elaborate on this?
Nice review, otherwise. I can’t wait for it to go live!
This sounds good….I keep changing iPhone Twitter clients!
first it was Twitterfon/Echofon (cos it was free)…then Twitterific, then Tweetie, Tweetdeck (for a sec)….currently back to Twitterific.
I do miss Tweetie, I think the big thing I didn’t like about the current version was that it didn’t store old tweets so I could look at them on the subway. The thing i miss the most is the swipe!
I can’t begin to tell you how excited I was about Tweetie 2.0…until I found out there’s not chat bubbles from this post.
To me…it’s what stood it out aesthetically as the plane jane way was boring.
Now I’m tasked with having to find another Twitter client
I hate when devs take away features.
I guess everyone here is sleeping on Twitterlator Pro!? I mean if you had the app you would realize all the others are childsplay. It’s the most feature full mobile Twitter client there is. Every thing this can do it can do better without the bland look of most other Twitter apps. Check it out for your own sake, then re-write the article! Not being paid, don’t worry!
To the autor of this article:
If you would pay more than the stock price, then pay my upgrade. Ah, forget it: switched to Twittelator long ago. No mute-function is no serious Twitter client.
Wow, gosh, wizz, WHAM that sounds just brilliant.
But.
Can I suggest that your reviewer might, just might, be slightly less impressed if he had experienced Twittelator already. If he has used Twittelator then that should be the point of comparison.
It’s had practically all those features for ages and some that Tweetie 2 still doesn’t have, ahem, groups support for one. I see no mention of “Mute” either so I guess Tweetie users will have to wait for that too (very useful btw).
The reviewer is entitled to rave about Tweetie but by setting up a comparison which excludes Twittelator he makes his job rather easy. With no reference to Twittelator its easy to rave about ReadItLater integration, drafts, or the ability to Tweet video (although unlike Twittelator I see no mention of YouTube support). Twittelator also supports Posterous and TweetPress for Wordpress which Tweetie doesn’t.
If the reviewer is ignorant of Twittelator’s EXTREMELY rich feature set then he has no business reviewing Tweetie in such gussing terms. Another big win for Twittelator users is that, unlike Tweetie fans, they haven’t been required to pay for upgrades. I certainly don’t mind the reviewer liking Tweetie but to publish a review which gushes about Tweetie’s features as if they were penicillin and avoids any mention whatsoever of Twittelator is either insanity, knavery or ignorance. Eitherway its misleading. Practically all the above features and quite a few besides have been Twittelator features for ages now.
Really disappointed with the pinstriping. Part of the reason why I love Tweetie was because of its polished UI. Now that it’s been outlined that the orange/blue ‘Follow’/'Stop Following’ is missing too – well, that’s just awful.
This is an awesome review, but it has put me off of Tweetie 2.0! I was definitely going to upgrade before this, but now I’m very hesitant. Also, tr.im support would be ace (or is this custom configurable- I’m no tech hand).
I don’t like the blankness of the new timeline either. The polished gray of 1.x was a lot nicer.
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Ditto on Twittelator Pro. As I was reading through the Tweetie 2.0 feature list, I said to myself at nearly every item, “Twittelator Pro” already has that. I also found it jaw-dropping to read that Tweetie 2.0 will include only a single white theme. That’s a step backward, IMO. I never used the chat bubble theme, but I know that MANY users did, and loved it so much that Tweetie 2.0 not having that theme will factor heavily in their decision to purchase it.
I will be sticking with Twittelator Pro. Its developer is very responsive to its users, most times almost immediately. Twittelator Pro will have Tweetie 2.0 beat before its even released. That being said, Tweetie 2.0 looks like a terrific app that obviously has had a tremendous amount of effort put into it, and I’m sure those who choose to adopt it will be most pleased.
And no, I have no affiliation with Twittelator Pro, other than being an extremely satisfied user, and I will receive no compensation or special consideration for my comments above.
To those suggesting Twittelator Pro, I know most of the features (and quite a few more) were introduced in the app a long time ago and feature wise, it still stands way ahead from the crowd in the App store. And even though I don’t know the developer personally, Andrew Stone is a great guy and I admire his efforts of answering the crowd’s call.
But, to me, and many others out there, an ideal app has the correct mix of an elegant UI and a good feature-set. Somewhere, the dev needs to draw a line and make up his mind as to what he’s going to focus on. To me, Tweetie brings that right amount of both in the app and that’s what makes it so great.
While I agree Twittelator Pro is a sure winner when it comes to features, but I’m in no way a fan of its interface.
/personal opinion
@preshit: thank you. that is also my opinion. twittelator pro has tons of features, but it’s u-g-l-y-!
i also like twitterrific, the new one, a lot, some nice features, much better looking than twittelator, imo, but it still looks a bit messy for me, and sometimes i just want to do something simple and it takes forever to remember where the hell the developer decided to hide it.
i’m also a fan of another app, birdfeed, and love the way they handle DMs, for instance. but yesterday i wanted to send something to instapaper, and i just gave up. you have to open the tweet, open the link on mobile safari, and share to instapaper. i found about this on a help page i had to look for, because i couldn’t remember where it was.
i could swipe and click on one of the first versions of tweetie (@atebits: i still miss it, btw).
i believe loren manages this much better than anyone else. no one else gets the perfect features/looks as he does, and that’s why i keep coming back to tweetie, no matter how many other apps i’ve bought and tried.
@maique
Absolutely. If you notice the screenshot of my home screen, Birdfeed sits right there accessible to me. There’s all that pixel love in there that I simply cannot resist and I use it for that occasional tweeting at times.
The question of ‘which twitter client had so and so feature’ before shouldn’t arise. Who are we, the users, to argue about that? There were Mp3 players much before the iPod came along. The question is, now what.
I’ve used Twittelator Pro for many months. The only reason I stuck to it, was because I found some of the features like drafts, landscape tweeting, and conversation threads too good to resist. But I suffered the user interface to be able to do that. I’d switch back to Tweetie every now and then just to get a breath of fresh air. Then with the 3.0 update Twittelator became dead slow on my iPhone so I gave it up altogether, but let’s say it worked fine and I was still using it. Would I switch to Tweetie 2? In a heartbeat!
I know that Brichter thinks a whole lot about the how and why of implementing a feature before just hacking away at Xcode. He’s also terrific at code optimisation, where back in late ’08 he showed veteran Twitterrific how scrolling is done. Brichter may take his time implementing a feature, but when it’s there, I know it’s done the right way*.
[*Except with that fugly new profile view I'll admit]
But has he fixed avatar caching?
Preshit
That’s fine, that’s an opinion and I’ve certainly no objection to it, although I don’t agree with it. My point, and I think one or two others have made it too, is that any reviewer getting himself worked up to orgasm over Tweetie 2′s future features at leat owes it to his readers not to act as if he’s just found the rosetta stone.
I have heard these comments about Twittelators UI before and frankly I disagree. Firstly there is no app as feature rich as Twittelator to compare it with so there is no app which has incorporated all the features Twittelator has and done so with equal elegance. There may be more elegant apps but they’re not near comparable in terms of features. As a product a brand new shiny spade hanging up in a hardware store is simplicity itself, a lot more elegant and easier to use than a Caterpillar but when it comes to the heavy lifting I’m choosing the Caterpillar every time.
From memory I’ll admit it took me a while to uncover all of Twittelators features, it takes longer to uncover Photoshops features than iPhotos too, but once its design metaphor becomes apparent I’m really at a loss to think how any tweep could get more done, faster or more easily than in Twittelator Pro. I think the issue is that TP isn’t so much less elegant than the rest it’s just that it doesn’t imitate the rest. You can fly between a lot of Twitter apps and hardly realise you’ve switched app, so closely do they ape each other. Don’t expect that in TP it does operate differently but its damn well laid out for the workflows possible in such an app and whether it’s opening a link, getting user details, locating a user on a map, saving to Instapaper, invoking Twitlonger or uploading a video, all this is done in a snap in TP by anyone used to the programme.
In any case our argument is a rather subjective one and we probably won’t agree but I just think it’s inexplicable on the part of the reviewer to leave this out.
I think what we are running into here is simply a difference in opinion. I think the Twittelator Pro (TP) UI is nice. Not as pretty as Twitterrific Premium, but still very nice. Especially now that you can make your own themes within TP, UI has been taken to another level – after all what better UI than a UI that the user made for himself? The custom theme aspect in TP could use some tweaking, and I susepct that Andrew is working on that. In regards to UI, we may disagree, and that is cool and what makes these discussions lively, interesting, and informative. FWIW, I have always found Tweetie’s UI to be very appealing, a trend that looks to be continued – and even improved upon – in 2.0.
@David: Like I said before, everyone has different tastes, especially when it comes to Twitter clients. This wasn’t a roundup of existing twitter clients on the market. It was a review of Tweetie, and what it means for someone interested in this app or a twitter client in general. Twittelator Pro has been talked more than once on Smoking Apples.
Agreed with Jordi. Is there Flickr support?
ONE SINGLE THEME? Are you kidding me? The UI on Tweetie 1 is MUCH better than this crap. Sure we get more services, but cmon why not the SAME theme, or new ones? I will not switch, the extras added in to Tweetie 2 are irrelevant for me, and I don’t need them.
I am seriously disappointed at the UI
@Jordi – I don’t think flickr is really a service to be using with your iPhone twitter pics, at least that is my opinion. There are better services out there for that. And as for people saying where’s posterous support etc etc… Am I correct in understanding that “Custom End-Points and Protocol Handlers” feature is pretty much add your own image-sharing or url-shortening site? Providing they have the correct API for it.
Anyway Loren, I’m sold. You have my $2.99 (can’t believe people are complaining.) Seems pretty cheap considering the time invested and the quality of work. And I don’t think there would be a way to offer a discount to users of Tweetie 1.x
@Kevin – Interesting take about Flickr, although I can’t for the life of me figure out why you would think that? Flickr’s probably the most dominant photo (and, to a lesser extent, video) sharing site on the web; the iPhone is the second most popular camera (of any type) used for photos uploaded there (it’s the most popular camera phone by a wide margin); there are a host of Flickr apps (including, now, an official one) for the iPhone; Flickr supports tweeting photos directly from its site with Flickr2Twitter; Flickr has a url-shortener (flic.kr); and, presumably, there are available APIs to allow for this. Why on earth would I want to use another service solely for my twitter and/or iPhone pictures? Frankly, flic.kr support in Tweetie just makes logical sense and, as Jordi points out, is a pretty long-awaited feature by MANY of us.
Tweetie does not support Flickr integration by default.
Now, I may be wrong here, but you won’t be able to use Flickr through the Custom API Endpoints either. The reason for this is, Flickr’s API requires OAuth-like integration that requires the client to apply for an API key and implement it and send all requests to flickr, where the user “Grants Access” to write to his photostream and returns to the app. A simple authentication via the API call isn’t possible.
The API Endpoints can be used with any service that implements the Twitpic API (media, username, password) as the paramethers.
Looking forward to Tweetie 2. Might switch back from Twittelator that, as others have said, has every feature
The screen shots show Tweets without a date/time stamp. Has that been removed? Also hope the load “More” tweets button is still there.
I think more themes will be added in future versions. Also wish the developer replied to feedback & provided frequent updated like Twittelator
Well Tweetie 2.0 seems interesting will surely buy it.
I was really waiting for this update to 2 since many feature were missing from Tweetie 1.0 – great work there 2 the developer – cant wait to but this new one!
I didn’t see the mention of push anywhere! I can’t imagine using a Twitter client without push.
I’ll be sticking with simplytweet I guess.
Thanks for this awesome review. I’m really looking forward to the release of 2.0 – even though I’m really suprised that there is no push notification for DM’s…
“When viewing your own profile, you can now edit most of the fields through the phone and save them and I think Tweetie is the first app to support this.”
Actually, Twitter Pro has this feature. I’m using it right now. Very underrated client btw: Twitter Pro
TweetDeck for the iphone gets my vote. I got the first tweetie and I just dont see whats so great about it.
The author basically said if you want groups you have to use multiple accounts. So, no, it is not the ultimate twitter client. I like Tweetflip personally.