January 6th, 2009 | |
Posted in Cloud
It’s been almost 2 years ago when Apollo (currently known as Adobe Air) was in alpha version and Adobe organized the 1st ever Apollo Camp in Macromedia’s headquarters in Townsend St in San Francisco. Danny Dura built an amazing Air app back then called Apollo Camp and he put it on a huge monitor for the people there to enjoy tweets from the community. This is when I first felt the need to learn more about this Twitter think.
Here you can see the app and his creator from a photo of Mike Downey:
Since then my addiction to twitter is so HUGE that the 1st thing I do every morning is read my tweets. If there is a lot of work to do and I have to skip the tweets of friends for a few hours (of course this is not the case for DM and @replies) the whole day is bad. You have to accept the fact that I LOVE TWITTER!
From that time I used a lot of twitter clients -as I remember all of them where/is Air apps- to get access to this new hot addiction. Someday TweetDeck came out and I’ve finally found the one and only desktop app that will serve my needs. TweetDeck is the best twitter client out there and if I had to use another one, the only decent client is called DestroyTweeter (yes yes by the guy that DestroyFlickr too!). The reason that Im not using this as my desktop client is because I love the way TweetDeck organizes my tweets because I cannot pay attention to it all the time so with TweetDeck I make sure I don’t lose any important DM or @reply.
Then the iPhone came in to my life and since the day one I was in search of a good twitter client. I used Twitteriffic for locating immediately any replies or DM tweets but then I switched to Safari to read all my friends’ tweets and open possible links.
But thanks to Mike Downey I’ve finally found the perfect Twitter client for the iPhone too. The name of the app is Tweetie. The price of the apps is 2,39 euros but I wouldn’t mind pay more for such an app.
The UI of this app is really slick and simple. The main buttons that you get when you authorize your twitter account are: Tweets, Replies, Messages (this is for Private msgs that you SENT and you GOT), Favorites and More where you can get information about Your Profile, about another user, Tweets posted near you (!), Trends and YES you can also search on Twitter too!
In Tweets section your tweets are colored green and the RTs blue. The tweets are presented in a nice iChat/SMS way that makes it so easy to read and not get lost in case your hand moves (while you are on a train for example).
Another interesting feature is that you can click on each tweet and read it separately because it animates and clears the screen. From that point you can read of course the tweet it self, learn the client that the user used to tweet, date and info about the user that post it.
The app is so awesome that from that point you can RT what you are reading or even create an email to this specific tweet! You can also favorite it or delete it in order to not be presented in your main tweets.
If you click on the user you get a full list of options related to this user and the connection he/she has with you. For example you can STOP FOLLOWING him, sent him a public or direct tweet, read his latest tweets, see his/her following list or his/her followers.
What else can you ask for, right?
Well I was really happy with this app but the real reason that made me blog about it is this:
As for the last 3 Apple events-announcements, today my ISP decided to not give me access to the net so I read the tweets that my friends post since last night from Tweetie and I notice something amazing.
When you first fire up Tweetie the app loads the last 20 tweets available to your account and it gives you a button in the end with a label “Load more…”
While you keep hitting the load more button you get more and more tweets in the app. The amazing think thought is that while the app loads older tweets it doesn’t refresh the above tweets (that you have already read) so you don’t lose focus on the latest tweet. So there might be new tweets for you to read but they don’t load until you refresh it. THIS IS SO FANTASTIC!
This is the only reason that every morning I read all my last night tweets from the browser and then I switch to TweetDeck (while on the mac). I really wish TweetDeck could implement something like that. It is very annoying to read many many tweets and suddenly to lose focus because a new tweet just arrived on the app.
If there is one more think to ask from Tweetie is to save the text that I just typed but I didnt managed to Send because someone just called me on the iPhone. But even with this all I can say to Atebits (sorry but I cant find the name of the guy that wrote this diamond) is a huge THANK YOU!
The app just ROCKS!
..but Apple’s permission is needed 
Off course..
Can you believe this.. Flash baby Player 10 in your pocket!
Take that economy!
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