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Tweetwall rebuilt, new iPad app available

by John-Michael Bond (May 10th, 2013)

Tweetwall is a company that provides Twitter displays for events, allowing companies to show guests the live Twitter chatter about their events. Their clients have included CNN, Yahoo, Intel, PayPal, Microsoft, eBay, the Obama campaign and the Webby Awards. Now Tweetwall has launched a rebuilt ...

Daily Update for May 2, 2013

by Steven Sande (May 2nd, 2013)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires ...

Twitter for iOS updated with location-based trends, more

by Michael Grothaus (May 2nd, 2013)

Twitter has released an update to its iOS app that adds new features and several improvements. The biggest new feature is the ability to view global trends. Previously a user could view local trends in the Discover tab, but now you can select global trend locations and view trending hashtags from ...

Tennis player tweets out love for Samsung Galaxy S4... from his iPhone

by John-Michael Bond (Apr 30th, 2013)

Look, famous people. I don't think anyone believes you endorse the products you endorse because you believe in them. We know your motivation is fat stacks of cash, preferably high enough to reach the ceiling. But think of endorsements like method acting; if you're going to put us through them at ...

Twitter updates its OS X client

by Mike Schramm (Apr 25th, 2013)

Twitter has updated its Twitter for Mac client, and you can see all of the new changes on the official company blog. The biggest update is that you now get a camera icon when you're composing a tweet, which makes it easier than ever to share pictures straight from your desktop (other Twitter ...

DevJuice: Does WWDC need a lottery system?

by Erica Sadun (Apr 25th, 2013)

WWDC sold out in just minutes this year. As iOS developer Josh Avant put it, "Next year, tickets are going to sell out before they even go on sale." Many developers were greeted by server errors, failed purchases and the "Sorry, tickets are sold out" banner. Others, like Daniel Jalkut of ...

Tweetbot update brings new media timeline and image viewer

by John-Michael Bond (Apr 23rd, 2013)

The popular Twitter client Tweetbot has been updated to version 2.8, bringing the addition of a new "media timeline" and image viewer for the iPhone and iPad apps. Media view allows users to see photos and images that have been tweeted directly in their feeds, with the text of the Tweets neatly ...

TweetDeck Air and TweetDeck for iPhone will be discontinued on May 7

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 20th, 2013)

Earlier this year, Twitter announced it was sunsetting TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck for Android and TweetDeck for iPhone sometime in May. Today, the company updated its original blog post and confirmed that the apps will be removed from their respective App Stores and will stop functioning on May ...

Rumor: Amazon's Goodreads purchase cancelled a possible Apple partnership

by Mike Schramm (Apr 18th, 2013)

The Wall Street Journal says that before Amazon's purchase of the Goodreads service earlier this year, Apple was planning to possibly integrate the social reading-recommendation service into its own iBookstore. Apple and Goodreads, says the WSJ, had been talking for a year or more about ...

Twitter #Music to debut later today (Update)

by Matt Tinsley (Apr 18th, 2013)

As reported by ABC News, the new Twitter #Music app will officially launch today. It will be available through the Twitter #Music app for iPhone and on the web here. Details are coming in this morning. A post has been published to Twitter's blog with a lot of information. The Twitter #Music ...

Foursquare 6.0 for iPhone improves Explore recommendations

by Steven Sande (Apr 10th, 2013)

This seems to be the week for social networking app news, with Twitter's Vine app taking most of the spotlight so far. Today's news is about Foursquare 6.0, which has just become available through the iOS App Store's software updates and was announced on the Foursquare blog. Foursquare first ...

Panic teases a new iPad app, probably Panic Status Board

by Mike Schramm (Apr 9th, 2013)

Panic is one of our favorite Mac developers -- they make the excellent Coda web editor, and Transmit, which is my OS X FTP client of choice. They have a new iPad app arriving this week, and word around the Internets is that it's an iPad version of Status Board, the internal tool the company ...

Vine tops the free app list in the US App Store

by Steven Sande (Apr 9th, 2013)

Twitter's Vine app has only been available since late January of 2013, but it's already become a favorite app for folks who love shooting, editing and sharing six-second videos of just about everything. Yesterday, Vine reached the number one spot of the US App Store for free apps, causing Vine ...

Vine Flip takes your Vine videos analog

by Steven Sande (Apr 8th, 2013)

Twitter's free Vine app has been around for about two months, capturing six-second videos for sharing with the rest of the world. Now there's Vine Flip, a service that wants you to get offline and go analog with your brief masterpieces. Vine Flip does this by converting your videos into paper ...