“Iconfactory’s Craig Hockenberry has made no secret of the fact that he has been working on an iPhone version of the popular Twitter application, Twitterrific, for quite some time. There are a handful of others that have popped up lately on the Mac (namely a number of AIR-based apps like Spaz, Twhirl, and Snitter), but Twitterrific seems to hold a major lead, and it only seems natural that it would be ported to a mobile application. Twitterrific won the Apple Design Award for best iPhone Social Networking Application last night, so it’s clearly something to look forward to,” Jacqui Cheng reports for Ars Technica.
“We spent some time this week speaking with Craig and playing around with Mobile Twitterrific in its (near) final form. It’s clear that a lot of thought has been put into this app, not just from a developer’s perspective sitting in front of a computer, but from a user’s perspective having used the app for months and months at a time. That’s exactly what Hockenberry has done, using it for personal use on his iPhone and iPod touch over the last five months, he tells us. He has continued to make refinement after refinement to make this app into something he, personally, cannot live without, and he can’t wait until the App Store launches so that everyone else can try it out, too,” Cheng reports.
Full article here.
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uh…. meh.
Do all your friends really need to know every time you take a zune?
Twitter? No thanks, I have a life already.
Man can’t the web be used for something useful?
I’ve heard so much about Twitter and checked out their website at least 3 times. Every time I leave thinking, “Whats the big deal?”
Does nothing for me.
I used to thinkTwiter was stupid, too. Then I used it for a while to see what the fuss was about.
MacDailyNews onTwitter is actually quite useful (iPhones via EDGE) and you also get some nice extras like this gem:
“We’ve met Dan Lyons. He had no idea with whom he was talking. Guess some people are better at hiding their identities than others.”
5 months? But the SDK was only released 3 months ago…
Welcome to the age of overblown sense of self importance.
Broadcast every stupid musing, boring activity or experience you have to a similar group of brain dead morons to make your self feel as if you actually exist and someone gives a shit.
@ nekogami13:
LOL!!! Spot on!!!
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How many millions of blogs are there in the world? How much time do we really have to read other people’s inane drivel? (Some, obviously, or I wouldn’t be here.) There may be an “information” overload happening, but most of it’s unmitigated crap, analysts’ verbal diarrhoea being a great example.
Twitter is not really a new idea. It’s just the modern day Massively-Multiuser Real-Time version of this very old blog:
The dullest blog in the world
http://www.wibsite.com/wiblog/dull/
(be sure to read all the archives, some great stuff there. no, seriously!)
sadly the author “Dave” must have bored himself out of his own mind, the blog has been inactive for some time. oh well, it’s been resurrected in spirit by Twitter and its cousins
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Twit-ter?
‘Welcome to the age of overblown sense of self importance’
So Ampar will be a big Twitter user then.