Ten Awesome New Features Pre-Announced for Tweetie 2.0 for iPhone
The creator of the very popular Twitter app Tweetie announced today that he hopes to submit the final version of Tweetie 2.0 to Apple this week. Loren Brichter detailed on his blog a mind boggling list of impressive new features have been built into the app. Tweetie 2.0 sounds like a heavy-duty tool for serious communication - in 140 characters of course.
Tweetie is already the mobile tweeting app of choice for geek rockstars like NY Times User Interface Specialist Nick Bilton, youth social networking analyst danah boyd, the TED conference's Leigh Ferreira and the Nonprofit Technology Network's Holly Ross. (Maybe you should try it too, if you haven't.) Below are ten forthcoming features that will make the new Tweetie knock your socks off.
- Video recording and video tweeting.
- Live filtering your tweet stream for keywords.
- Persistent state, close the app or get a phone call and it will relaunch on the same page you left it.
- Offline mode - including offline reading, follow, unfollow and save a link to Instapaper - all your commands will sync back up when you come online again.
- A drafts manager lets you draft multiple tweets offline and then send all at once when you come online.
- Sync your twitter contacts with iPhone adress book, marking up contacts with phone number, email and more. The new user profile pages look quite nice.
- Threaded conversation display.
- More powerful "nearby" UI, using Mapikt and supporting Twitter's forthcoming geolocation metadata.
- Integration with third party apps Favstar.fm (know when people favorite your tweets), Tweet Blocker, and Follow cost (see posting frequency for users).
- "Peak" gesture when replying to a tweet, presumably an easy way to glance back at the message you're replying to. Sounds nice.
That's a whole lot of features, but Brichter writes that he's kept it all looking beautiful. "And here's the beauty of this," he wrote today, "just as Tweetie 1 proved that you didn't have to sacrifice usability for functionality, Tweetie 2 proves it again. Every single one of these features fits naturally into the user interface, none adds unnecessary complexity. It's arguably even simpler than Tweetie 1, all while being vastly more powerful."
Unfortunately, there's no support for Groups. Not in the iPhone or the Mac version of Tweetie. That's a dealbreaker for some of us on the desktop, at least.
If all goes well, the new version will likely be available in the first half of October. Come on Apple, let the new Tweetie on through!
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Tweetie is currently my app of choice and these features look great but the feature I currently want the most is having the ability to save a group of users. I may need to find another app just for this functionality if it isn't coming soon.
Looks cool, but WTF is up with this part is:
"...Persistent state, close the app or get a phone call and it will relaunch on the same page you left it."
I say that's a *bug*, not a feature.
( Blaming Apple, not Tweetie. Android can have multiple apps open, make calls, get calls, have someone on hold. )
Tweetie 2.0 is the way forward, disappointed that support for Groups isn't on the agenda but not too bothered!
Hope this does not affect the speed of Tweetie!
Push notification?
Y. Thong Kuah,
Read his post. He states that speed is up. Nice!
I'd like to know if Tweetie 2 is going to have push as well. The rest of it sounds great, especially offline mode and synching up with the Mac desktop version. But Push would really be a great add to have, especially with other app's having it.
This sounds awesome. Can't wait. How long does it take for apple to release this ?
Groups seem like a no-brainer. I don't know why this is getting missed.
Interesting and seems great.
The little adress card icon on the Stephen Fry screenshot, is that to link a person in Tweetie to the internal adress book on the iPhone?
And Apple: When are you going to have a way link a person in the adress book the other way? So that I can can click something in the adress book and end up in Tweetie with that person's profile showing?
Although i'm looking forward to tweetie 2 on the iPhone. I'm far from impress tweetie upgrade is gonna cost me more. He's essentially asking is supporters to pay twice as much as newcomers. The killer is that most of the features are all ready in other apps. For example Echofon and Twitterific (I have echofon pro) all which have been updated and upgraded more often and for free. So it seems it's only current (exclusive) Tweetie users who are very excited about this new app. I really like the snappiness of it's interface but I fin echofon more usable (based on tweetie 1) and twitterific more fun (which, for free has a similar peek feature)
my 2 cents
Tweetie is a paid application and worth it. You can retweet from it, mail the tweet to yourself. You can store more than one account. I've had success with it.
For great groups management, I use TwitBird Pro. It has a great interface and the groups management is very nice. Admittedly, I would switch back to Tweetie if they incorporated groups into the app. I currently have both apps installed on my iPhone.
didn't they hear about the 'push' needed feature ?