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TUAW First Look: Twittelator Pro 3.0
Despite all of the hoopla the last few days about TweetDeck becoming available for iPhone, I decided to stick with a tried and true friend -- Twittelator Pro. My loyalty was rewarded with a new version of the iPhone Twitter client that takes advantage of many of the features of iPhone OS 3.0.Twittelator Pro 3.0 [App Store] is priced at US$4.99 for new users, and the upgrade is free for owners of previous versions. The app is from Andrew Stone's BigStonePhone, and builds upon capabilities of the new iPhone OS. Along with the existing features such as offline tweeting, a built-in browser, and being able to handle multiple Twitter accounts, Twittelator Pro 3.0 now adds the following goodies to 3.0 iPhones:
- Record, edit, and tweet video with the 3G S
- Record and tweet audio
- Copy, paste, select, select all, and undo text (shake to undo)
- Paste photos into tweets
- Compose and send email from within the app
- Get a zoomable map of a tweeter's location
Be sure to check out the gallery below for a plethora of pithy pictures of this great app.
Gallery: Twittelator Pro 3.0
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
dagamer43 said 5:13PM on 6-18-2009
Pretty powerful app chockful of 3.0 features. It's a shame I don't know how to use twitter though.
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emil said 5:13PM on 6-18-2009
Which client will first support push?
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OwlBoy said 5:29PM on 6-18-2009
The Million dollar question, because with the way push works that app will have to create a web based site and run servers that keep you logged in a checking for tweets.
I don't expect all the twitter apps will want to / be able to set this up.
I would guess Twinkle will get it first since they already have a backend set up / started.
PfBee said 5:29PM on 6-18-2009
Still waiting for someone to enable push notifications in their twitter app though. I was expecting a flood of them around now and that was actually the only reason I signed up for a twitter account, to test the new push feature. Come on devs, show us some push notification love!
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Jesse David Hollington said 7:45PM on 6-18-2009
As somebody else pointed out above, the problem is that for Push Notifications to work with a Twitter client, the developer would either need to setup a middleware server, or Twitter itself would need to deploy push notification capabilities on the Twitter side.
mikelite said 5:30PM on 6-18-2009
I wonder if the app is more stable...
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ambulanceseast said 5:37PM on 6-18-2009
re: "pithy": I do not think this word means what you think it means.
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aleenm88 said 6:14PM on 6-18-2009
"My personal favorite feature is the built-in browser in Twittelator Pro, which keeps me in the app while I'm tapping on links. "
Every twwitter app does that. even free ones
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Dan Fever said 6:30PM on 6-18-2009
Twittelator Pro is the worlds best kept secret in my opinion. I couldn't write enough good stuff about it honestly and I have no affiliation. I would even give these guys another $5 I don't have, they are so on it. Great UI. More options than any other Twitter app. All other apps in my opinion are chasing this one. Customer service is great and they again, are ahead of the curve. Trust me.
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Lee said 6:27PM on 6-18-2009
Every twitter client I've used on my iTouch includes a built-in browser so is there something with Twittelator Pro's that makes it better? At the moment my favorite client is the free version of Twitterfon because it's the only one whose browser supports landscape. The browsers in Twitterific and TweetDeck do not support landscape.
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Michael said 6:32PM on 6-18-2009
Does anyone know if we can have the same sort of video/audio uploads with the iPhone 3G and Jailbreak? That would be awesome!
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Jesse David Hollington said 7:47PM on 6-18-2009
It's also worth pointing out that the select/cut/copy/paste and undo features are system-wide on the iPhone 3.0 OS, and not something specific to any particularly Twitter client, or any other app, for that matter -- any app that uses standard text-entry fields (which almost ALL do), can take advantage of the enhanced editing features.
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conigs said 10:02PM on 6-18-2009
"Copy, paste, select, select all, and undo text (shake to undo)"
Um, isn't that an OS 3.0 function, not just Twittelator 3? I can do that in TwitterFon, Twitterrific, and Tweetie on OS 3.0.
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tevetorbes said 10:10PM on 6-18-2009
Does Twittlelator Pro have a feature to search for Tweeple that are near you?
I love this in Twitterriffic: not available in TweetDeck AFAIK, and that plus the frequent crashes and bugs are a bit of a turn-off for me.
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Reza Muhammad said 1:07AM on 6-19-2009
Yes, you can search for people who tweet around your area with Twittelator Pro
Mike said 12:04AM on 6-19-2009
Twitter is absoluly retarded... Bloging for those with ADD. Shows how meningless the lives of twits who tweet really is... I/O twitting about uninteresting lives try living life...
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Ian said 3:10AM on 6-19-2009
Why on Earth would anybody want push notifications for Twitter? Seriously have you seen how much certain people "tweet"? Some have fits where they post almost every second for considerable time. Do you want continuously appearing popup alerts or a badge notification count in the thousands? Twitter isn't email. You aren't meant to read everything that the people you follow post. Similarly I don't want to know everytime they post. My iPhone battery would be sucked dry from all those alerts.
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Simple Tech Guru said 11:11AM on 6-21-2009
Thanks for the tip. This app looks awesome. Very thorough. Think I'll abandon Twitterific - you've nailed most of the reasons I haven't used it on my iPhone as much.
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Christian said 1:21PM on 7-18-2009
has anyone noticed that in twittelator pro 3.0 the "replies" tab at the bottom don't show the badge anymore at start up like the "friends" tab does. It used to do it in 2.x.
maybe i just need to download again. can anyone help?
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