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Twitterrific 4.1 for iOS released, includes username auto-complete and spam reporting

by Dana Franklin Apr 22nd 2011 at 1:30AM

Twitterrific IconHere's something to write up to 140 characters about. The Iconfactory deployed version 4.1 of its award winning Twitter client, Twitterrific, to the App Store on Thursday. The new version offers users a smorgasbord of enhancements and bug fixes.

Macworld's "Twitter Client of the Year" in 2010 and a favorite among many of us here at TUAW, Twitterrific is available for free as an ad-supported version. An in-app upgrade allows customers to ditch the advertisements and manage multiple Twitter accounts for US$4.99. The app is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad and requires iOS 4.0 or later.

Continue reading to see a full listing of new features and bug fixes offered in Twitterrific version 4.1.

New Features

  • Username auto-completion when composing a tweet
  • "Report Spammer" option on user profiles (must not be following)
    • Tap and hold on a user's avatar for quick access to report action
  • Support for Cloud.app media uploads & URL shortening
  • Camera support for iPad 2
  • Settings option to toggle Global Trends on/off
  • New Advanced settings
    • Keep scrolled to top (if already at the top)
    • Mentions by Strangers to limit mentions to only people you follow
    • Quick View to open links in Safari instead of in-app browser

Improvements

  • Timeline views in pop-overs now color coded properly
  • Single tap and tap & hold actions re-organized for easier access
  • Single tweet view eliminated for faster access to tweet actions
  • iPad tap shortcuts: Double tap for conversation, triple tap to fave
  • Switching accounts now returns directly to the timeline for faster loading (iPhone & iPod)
  • Improved loading of multiple tweets in a conversation when selected
  • Automatic updating of the timeline while the app is left running
  • User profiles and lists appearances updated to "card style" to match the Mac
  • User profiles now include total number of tweets from a user
  • Text size settings now also affect text in the compose area and sidebar
  • Large font size setting is slightly larger
  • Improved error handling via new status bar notifications
  • Timestamps now update in real time

Bug Fixes

  • Global trends now load properly
  • Double emoji icons are no longer displayed in the timeline
  • Fixed a bug that caused jump-to-top by tapping the status bar to stop working
  • User avatar loading was improved
  • Hash tags containing underscores are now displayed correctly
  • Links in smart quotes (like t.co) can be opened now
  • All YouTube videos now play correctly in the mini-browser
  • Fixed a crash when tapping 2 or more tweets simultaneously


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Sean

I loved twitterific before this update, now I might have to leave it. No matter what setting I use, when new tweets are added to the timeline the app auto scrolls to the top and I'm left scrolling down trying to find where I left off. Before this update when new tweets were added it didn't affect the position you were currently at in the timeline. Also don't know why they removed the one touch star to favorite a tweet.

May 02 2011 at 10:27 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
MfS

Great, Talos. Put the user client stuff back in for the iPad 2, and you'll have my $4.99...and Twitterific will be my default iPad Twitter client going forward.

April 22 2011 at 12:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
MfS

It never ceases to amaze me how with every Twitterific update, the app STILL does NOT show what client/method was used by a user. Call it stupid to want a simple feature like that, but I can't imagine it's that hard to show what client was used to make a Twitter post. You know, "Posted 2 hours ago using Tweetbot for iPhone." Is it REALLY that hard to code this?

Nearly every Twitter app I've come across shows this somehow...and I'm not sure why Twitterific can't simply find a way to do it. Again, it's probably dumb, but add that feature to Twitterific and I'll pay the $5 US to upgrade...especially for the iPad. Until then, I'd rather use Tweetbot for iPhone in 2x mode or Twittelator, both of which have that feature & everything else I'd personally like.

April 22 2011 at 12:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Talos

MfS, we used to have that feature, but we remove it at some point, we might bring it back in the future. All based on the priority on the feature request list. Whatever function we add will have to work across three platforms. So we have to design it right.

April 22 2011 at 12:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Hank

Removing features is why I left Twitteriffic.

April 23 2011 at 9:57 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kevin

I gave up trying to use Twitterrific many versions ago because the iPad app was always way behind the iPhone version in features. The auto-complete of usernames was a big one for me, because some of the people I follow have either long names or oddly spelled user names. I'm glad it's finally a feature but it took way too long. And where is geo-tagging your tweets? I see that is still missing in action. The only thing Twitterrific has going for it, is the color themes. It may be visually appealing, but it's not fully functional.

I'm sticking with the official twitter client, it has all the features.

April 22 2011 at 11:01 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Talos

boystar22, we have finally unified all the code across iPhone, iPad and Mac. Once the 4.1 Mac version released. We will release new features across all three platforms at the same time frame.

April 22 2011 at 12:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Peter M

Never buy from the icon factory. I bought a previous premium version of twitterific. It stopped working and instead of fixing it they released a new app and refused to refund my purchase. Worst company on the app store as they don't care about you once they have your money.

April 22 2011 at 10:31 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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