Mobile App: Tweetsville
Posted by admin on 18 December, 2008
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Tweetsville bills itself as a “humble” twitter client for the iPhone®. It boasts many useful features:
- Shows up to 200 tweets:
Rich text display; bold will display as bold, etc.;
Clickable inline links and @names; - Two looks: Balloon and Simple
- Displays border for tweets in which you are referenced in Balloon mode.
- Tap a tweet to view details, send replies, and mark as a favorite.
- Explore the latest hot topics with Trends.
- Search the Twitterverse:
Search using official Twitter advanced query terms;
Location/Date-based search supported; - Send and receive direct messages:
Distinctive look, to separate it from tweets;
Threaded display of sent/received messages; - View details of tweets:
Reply to user (ties directly to this message in the web site – more accurate than a simple @reply);
Send direct message to user;
Mark tweets as favorites;
Delete your own tweets;
View a user’s profile; - View user profile information:
View favorites/history;
View a user’s friends/followers; - Compose tweets and direct messages with ease:
Upload images via TwitPic;
Type-ahead name matching of friends when sending direct messages.
Tweetsville is available at the App Store for $3.99 and requires the iPhone® 2.0 software update. ♦♦♦♦

