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Review: Twitepad for iPad

July 23, 2010 iPad

Over the past 4 years there had been many Twitter clients created for the iPhone, Blackberry, OS X and Windows platforms. With the arrival of the Apple iPad, a new class of Twitter clients arrived. Some recycled what they had done on the iPhone; like TweetDeck, some simply recompiled their iPhone app to run on [...]

Review: Twitter for iPhone

May 20, 2010 iPhone

A bit over a month ago Twitter (the site/service) purchased the popular iPhone app “Tweetie”. During the announcement Twitter also announces that they will rename the app to “Twitter for iPhone” and reduce the price to free. The name is not that original but that was intentional, because Twitter wants people to find their client [...]

Twitter BUYS Tweetie

April 10, 2010 iPhone

The very popular iPhone app, Tweetie by Atebits (the Loren Brichter’s company) has been purchased by Twitter, the service it’s a client for. Twitter decided to buy instead of recreate its own mobile client, so it settled on Tweetie. It rename the app to “Twitter for iPhone” and then make it free in the iTunes [...]

Twestival 2010 Around the World

March 25, 2010 Software

Starting at 16:00 (GMT+0800, aka HK time) close to 200 cities around the world will began their local Twestival. This year the event is to raise money for Concern Worldwide in support of their efforts with educating children around the world. If you cannot make it to the event in Hong Kong at 19:00 (GMT+0800) [...]

Twitter.com New Feature

March 17, 2010 Software

It appears that the features that Twitter staff had hinted about is appearing on the Twitter.com web site slowly. I noticed now you can row your cursor over someone’s @reply reference, a tip box showing the individual’s profile will appear. There is also a “more” link where you can expand the individual’s profile information to [...]

Twestival Hong Kong on March 25, 2010

March 16, 2010 Announcement

On March 25 a group of Twitter users will join over 200 cities/countries around the world for Twestival. An excuse to get together and network in person with all the people you have exchanged tweets with over the years. While at the same time have chance to win great prices and raise money for Concern Worldwide. [...]

Review: SimplyTweet on iPhone [Updated]

September 29, 2009 iPhone

Over the years many Twitter clients had come and gone on various mobile phone platforms: iPhone, Blackberry, Android, etc.. Some great ones like TweetDeck, Tweetie, Echofon Pro (formerly TwitterFon) and some flops like TweetStack. I’m glad to see other developers are still trying to out do its established competitors. Recently I came across such a [...]

Review: TweetDeck for iPhone

June 17, 2009 iPhone

I had been using Twitter for since 2006 and the iPhone since its initial release in 2007. Through out these times I had been searching for the ultimate Twitter client on the iPhone and on my Mac. Before I can get into the review of TweetDeck for iPhone, I have to provide some context. To understand [...]

Kutcher Ding-Donged Turner

May 14, 2009 Observation

After beating CNN (Ted Turner) to the 1 million follower mark on Twitter, Ashton Kutcher; or @aplusk as he is known on Twitter, this evening (US CST) pulled a guerilla marketing stunt in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, during a massive Tweetup in front of the CNN building. Kutcher and his wife, Demi Moore @MrsKutcher, tweeted about [...]

Reveiw: TweetStack on iPhone

April 26, 2009 iPhone

Ever since I started using TweetDeck this past January, as my desktop Twitter client, it had been my client of choice and I wished there is a similar client on my iPhone. Just a quick description of why TweetDeck is not a normal Twitter client. It has the standard functions to allow users to see [...]

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