Twitter’s iOS developer Loren Brichter has announced via a personal tweet that he is no longer with the company. The lead developer for Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for iPad worked his last day at the tech company on Friday, November 4.
The social networking app, Obocat is a quick and easy way to send messages and images to Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Not only that, you can use it to send emails and texts all from the same app too.
In a recent interview, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo noted that sign-ups for the social network have increased by three times since Apple's Twitter integration feature (in iOS 5) went public. He also noted that over 250 million tweets are being published each day, meaning Twitter is serving one billion tweets every four to five days.
Twittelator Neue is the new app on the Twitter app space. It definitely shows that developers can still be innovative with Twitter apps. However, this app does have its own set of flaws.
Tomorrow might very well be the last time you have to enter your Twitter credentials into your iOS device. Or at least, you'll never have to do it again with your favorite Twitter clients, as both the official Twitter app, as well as Tweetbot have now been updated to support iOS 5.
A new iPhone app called "Tweet Speaker" has the ability to read users' Twitter streams aloud. The app, which is natively compatible with the iPhone and iPod touch, is available to download in the App Store for $2.99.
Although some Twitter clients offer a variety of these tools, there isn't just one that has them all. Here is a list that offers up five tools that every Twitter app should implement no matter what.
Apple's digital e-book store, the iBookstore, now has its own Twitter account. The account, @iBookstore, is verified as belonging to Apple, and promises to tweet information on "featured books, exclusive offers and more" on a regular basis.
Last January, we reported that some sort of Find My Friends feature was discovered in the iOS 4.3 beta. Of course, once released to the public, the iOS contained no such feature. Now, similar code is being found, but this time within HTML code from the recently launched iCloud.com website, according to 9 To 5 Mac.
In a note to developers, Twitter's Jack Dorsey (@jack) described Twitter integration in Apple's iOS 5 as "an opportunity for us, together, to take the ecosystem to a new level."
The popular Twitter client for iPhone, Tweetbot, has recently received an update. Now, the application features support for Tweetmarker, and various improvements and bug fixes.
Pro-Share is an iPhone/iPod touch photo-sharing app that lets you easily upload multiple photos to several social networking sites at once. Photo sharing just got easier. Within this single app, you can take pictures and videos, organize groups, comment on pictures and upload photos, all with just a couple of taps.
If you're a Twitterrific user and like to catch up on all tweets rather than just stuff happening now, you'll be pleased to know about Twitterrific's new update that includes a much needed feature.
Twitter is currently in the process of rolling-out a brand new, HTML5 Web interface for the iPad. As you can see in the above screenshot, the Web interface looks very much like the universal Twitter iOS app, and we've also heard that it's more touchable, too.
The popular Twitter client for the iPhone and iPod touch, Tweetbot, has recently received an update. Now, users of the app can take advantage of a variety of new features and improvements, including improved multiple account switching, local trends and more. Currently, the latest version of the application (1.3) is available to download in the App Store for $1.99.
According to a recent article, once the final version of iOS 5 becomes available a jailbreak tweak will be released, which will allow users to tweet from anywhere within the iOS.