Iconfactory prepares Twitterrific for the App Store

Twitterrific for iPhone is free. well, according to Apple. if you check out the screenshots of the App Store, Twitterrific is listed as Free.

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http://www.apple.com/iphone/itunes.html

They're going to need to make a Japanese/Chinese version for the Hong Kong, Japanese, and Singaporean markets that are about to open up. Twitter is very popular in Asian countries.

I do believe Twinkle has innovated in this field, and Twitterific might find it conscionable to acquire it. But, of course, business is business.

I really hope Twitterrific on the iPhone is location aware like Twinkle is. I find this feature very interesting. Seeing what local people are Twittering about right around the corner is a really cool way to keep up with whats going around you.

Just the other day I became aware of a local street fair going on down the street from myself from a tweet around the corner.... very cool.

The only reason Twitter made it through is because they turned off or nerfed every single feature of the service. By the start of the keynote, users were capped at 10 server checks/tweets per hour; the People lists were gone; the Stats were gone; and Replies, Archive, and Everyone were broken. Even with that,the service was intermittent at best, with Twitteriffic returning errors nearly every time I checked and the Twitter site returning the same errors.

They are in desperate need of an information architecture team over there.