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Mar 10 2010

Birdfeed Twitter Client is now Brizzly… and Free!

The delightful Twitter client Birdfeed has been bought, updated, and rebranded by Brizzly and is now available as Brizzly for iPhone… for free! [iTunes link]

If you’re looking for a great Twitter client, give Brizzly a [...]


Feb 13 2010

Closed vs. Open, Control vs. Chaos — What’s Best for Apple, the iPhone and iPad?

Yesterday at Macworld two events helped clarify something I’ve been discussing with Dieter for a while now — Apple, the iPhone and iPad, and closed vs. open systems, control vs. chaos. These two events were [...]


Feb 1 2010

Apple Adds Official YouTube Channel with iPad Video, is @Apple Twitter Next?

9to5mac is reporting that not only did Apple go an add a new, official YouTube channel — currently stocked with iPad video and Keynote — but http://twitter.com/apple has suddenly been vacated…

Could @apple finally be “getting” [...]


Jan 25 2010

TiPb Give Away: 10 FREE Copies of Twitbit for iPhone!

TiPb loves to give back to our readers with our give aways, so why not give away my personal favorite Twitter app in all of the Apple App Store, Twitbit!

Our good friends over at High [...]


Dec 4 2009

Twitter Eats Own “Dogfood”, Previews New Mobile WebApp for iPhone

Twitter is previewing a new iPhone-friendlier version of their website, mobile.twitter.com, this time “eating their own dogfood” by using the same APIs they provide to developers. While Twitter has long had their m.twitter.com mobile site [...]


Nov 21 2009

Birdfeed Twitter Client for iPhone Goes 1.2

Birdfeed [$2.99 - iTunes link], one of the best looking, slickest working iPhone Twitter clients we’ve looked at, has just been updated to version 1.2 and is jam-packed with new, well-handled features:

Geographic locations can now [...]


Nov 9 2009

iPhone Twitter App TweetDeck Went Missing, Will be Back Soon

Most of our readers love their Twitter, and to some of you who happened to be searching for the TweetDeck app within the App Store, you may have been a bit surprised and disappointed to [...]


Nov 6 2009

Follow Friday: iPhone Twitter Lists and “New Style” Retweets Edition

We’ll save you the preamble this time; suffice it to say iPhone+Twitter = peanutbutter cuppy goodness. And now Twitter is rolling out new features to either make it dark chocolatey super good, or just to [...]


Oct 22 2009

iTunes Gets Twitter Accounts, Bing and Google Get Twitter Real-Time Search

Big news round Twitter-way, with Apple adding a few more official Twitter accounts, and Microsoft Bing and Google paying for unrestricted access to real-time search Twitter’s firehose of user status posts.

First up, while Apple’s never [...]


Oct 16 2009

Follow Friday Poll: What’s Your Current Go-To iPhone Twitter Client?

What’s your current go-to iPhone Twitter client?(poll)

The iPhone and Twitter go together like peanut butter and chocolate, so it’s no wonder we enjoy an unparalleled quantity and quality of Twitter apps for the iPhone. From [...]


Oct 12 2009

App Review: TwiBit 2.0 Twitter Client for iPhone

TwitBit 2.0 Forum Review by llofte. For more Forum Reviews, see the TiPb iPhone App Store Forum Review Index!

Surprisingly, nearly 3 months after iPhone 3.0’s release, there are only a few twitter applications that offer [...]


Oct 10 2009

Quick App: Twitbit 2.0

For those of you who are a bit disappointed with your current iPhone Twitter client because of the lack of a little something called “push notifications” – You must check out Twitbit 2.0. [$2.99 Sale [...]


Oct 9 2009

App Walkthrough: Tweetie 2.0 Twitter Client for iPhone

Tweetie 2.0 [$2.99 - iTunes link] is the second generation release of one of the iPhone’s most popular Twitter clients. According to developer Atebits, it’s also a ground-up re-write — it even has a snazzy [...]


Sep 16 2009

Quick Twitter Apps: qStatus and Echofon Twitter Clients for iPhone

qStatus is the App Store subset of the qTweeter Jailbreak app, and Echofon is the new name for Twitterfon. Confused yet? Don’t be, we’ve got the basics on both these iPhone and iPod touch Twitter [...]


Aug 7 2009

Follow Friday: Keep Current with TiPb and the iPhone via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or RSS!

In addition to our main iPhone blog, iPhone forums, and iPhone Live! podcasts, there’s a number of other ways you can follow TiPb and get all the latest iPhone news, reviews, and how-tos:

Twitter

You can follow [...]


Aug 4 2009

Quick App: Twitbit 1.1 iPhone Twitter Client with Push Notification

Twitbit [$4.99 - iTunes link] is a Twitter client for iPhone and iPod touch that includes built-in push notification for not only @mentions but direct messages as well.

It was not long ago that Rene [...]


Aug 3 2009

Monday Fun Video: Twit-A-Run Augmented Reality Twitter UI

Augmented reality applications, where live streaming video is overlaid with data in real-time, is coming with iPhone 3.1, and here’s a demo Twitter client to show yet another example about how this may be the [...]


Jul 23 2009

From the Forums: iPhone Hardware, Extra Button, Ringtone Requests, Twitter Apps

It’s that time again where TiPb selects some of the hottest topics on the forums and spotlights them right here. In order for you to reply to any of the following threads, you must be [...]


Jul 16 2009

Quick App: Twitbit Push Notification Twitter Client for iPhone

Twitbit [$4.99 - iTunes link] is a Twitter client for the iPhone and iPod touch that provides built-in push notification for @mentions and direct messages (DMs).

For those of you still reading — those didn’t immediately [...]


Jul 14 2009

Quick App: Boxcar Push Notification for Tweetie and Twitterrific iPhone Twitter Clients

Boxcar [$1.99 - iTunes link] is almost more enabler than app. It only does one thing, but thus far it does it very, very well — it sends Push Notifications for Twitter @mentions and Direct [...]