Tweetie become ‘Twitter for iPhone’ and free!

Apr 10, 2010 | Comments 0

Twitter has announced the acquisition of Tweetie which will be renamed Twitter for iPhone and made free!. “Twitter has been growing by leaps and bounds around the world. People everywhere should be able to access Twitter without friction or confusion. Careful analysis of the Twitter user experience in the iTunes AppStore revealed massive room for improvement as . People are looking for an app from Twitter, and they’re not finding one. So, they get confused and give up.” said Twitter in a press release.

Twitter announced that they have entered into an agreement with Atebits (aka Loren Brichter) to acquire Tweetie, a leading iPhone Twitter client. Tweetie will be renamed Twitter for iPhone and made free (currently $2.99) in the iTunes AppStore. Loren will become a key member of our mobile team that is already having huge impact with device makers and service providers around the world. Loren’s work won the 2009 Apple Design Award and we will eventually launch Twitter for iPad with his help.

Developers, services, and publishers will be able to leverage the Twitter iPhone and iPad applications to create additional innovative tools and integrations for users.

Tweetie 2 offers the most polished mobile Twitter experience around.

Seamlessly handle multiple Twitter accounts
Explore all of Twitter, from your own timeline and mentions, to the favorite tweets of your followers and friends
Full persistence: more than just caching tweets, Tweetie 2 restores your entire UI if you quit or get a phone call
Fantastic new offline mode. Read, tweet, favorite, follow, save to Instapaper and more even when you don’t have a connection. Your actions will be synced as soon as you go back online
Full landscape support (configurable of course)
Live-filter your tweet stream
Post photos and videos, even configure your own custom image host
Vastly improved compose screen with recent hashtags, @people picker, URL shortening and more
Compose screen multiple-attachments manager
Drafts manager ensures you never lose a tweet (and you can even send drafts to Birdhouse)
Link Twitter contacts to Address Book contacts
Follow, unfollow, block and unblock from multiple accounts simultaneously
Saved searches sync with Twitter.com and the upcoming Tweetie 2 for Mac
Autocomplete recent searches and Go-to-user
Threaded Direct Messages and improved conversation navigation
TextExpander integration
Rich integration with Follow Cost, Tweet Blocker, Favstar.fm and more
Edit your own Twitter profile
Specify custom API roots on a per-account basis
Nearby map view
Translate tweets
Preview short URLs
Safari bookmarklet support for easily sharing links
In-app rich text email composition
Tons of little things, including improved avatar caching, auto-refresh, refresh-all, seamless Twitlonger support, hashtag definitions and more