I’ve been using Twitter 4.0 pretty heavily since its release this past Friday. One thing that’s immediately apparent: Twitter wasn’t kidding when they said they were going after newcomers as opposed to appeasing seasoned Twitter veterans. But truth be told, there are many things I do like about the new 4.x app, starting with the overall design. More functional aspects, however, leave a bit to be desired — it takes too many clicks to do a lot of...
Find yourself writing about Twitter-based material a lot? Along with new UI/functionality for the Android and iOS apps as well as a revamped Twitter.com web portal, Twitter also unleashed another new gem: Embeddable tweets. This is an embedded tweet — Mike Norris (@the_gadgeteur) December8, 2011 Users of WordPress and Posterous blogs can simply copy the tweet URL or shortcode into a post and the respective services will automagically display the embedded tweet (as...
Back when the App Store started taking off in 2008, one of the most high profile companies to not have an official app was Twitter. For official support iOS users had to turn to 3rd party developers. One such developer, Loren Brichter, founded the company “atebits” and released a wonderfully designed and functional app simply called “Tweetie”. The app was so good in fact that Twitter eventually acquired Tweetie (and ate bits) back in April of...
We’re not going to beat around the bush — we love TweetBot. It’s easily our favorite Twitter client thanks to the wonderfully done custom design work, unique sounds, and fat stack of features. But Twittelator Neue could very well become our new favorite. After the break is a nice little Twittelator Neue teaser video showing off the unique UI tweaks of its own as well as navigation enhancements that frankly leave us tickled. Combine all the awesome...
How important was Steve Jobs to planet Earth? According to social media analyzing firm Sysomos, 1 hour after news broke of Steve Jobs’ death the total number of tweets paying homage to the great innovator topped 500,000. 11 hours later the number surpassed 2.5 million. The hash tags tracked include: steve jobs’, stevejobs, ripsteve, ripjobs, ripstevejobs, #stevejobs, #ripsteve, #ripjobs, #ripstevejobs, #stevejobs. Pretty cool. Via: ...
