The dev are also fantastic and listen to your requests. Just after I first downloaded it I asked, on twitter,  about possibly changing the date format, and I can happily say, this was implemented in the 2.3 release. for updates on whats happening with SimplyTweet you can follow the dev team on twitter at @SimplyTweet.

Here are some of the awesome features of SimplyTweet:

• Push notification support for Direct Messages and Mentions, showing new messages in the application badge
• Configurable push notification sounds
• Themes
• Saved views (create groups of friends, etc)
• Photos search
• Saved notes for accounts
• Multiple accounts support, with quick switch support
• HootSuite integration: importing of Twitter accounts from HootSuite
• Support for updating user profiles from within SimplyTweet, including profile picture
• Bookmarklet Support
• Landscape drafting mode (both Tweets and DM)
• Landscape view for builtin web browser
• Tweetshrink support (both tweets and DM)
• URL shortening
• Send direct messages longer than 140 characters
• Unread tweet indicators for all themes
• Instapaper Support
• Posterous Support (multiple photos and video upload) with hashtags converted to Posterous tags
• TwitPic support (multiple photos)
• yfrog support (multiple photos and video upload)
• img.ly support (multiple photos)
• TwitrPix support (multiple photos)
• TwitVid support (video upload)
• Browse conversations – display the reply chain of a message all in 1 screen
• Browse conversations between you and another person – display the tweets between you all in 2 screen
• Bigger text option

Some of the cool new features to be added in Version 2.3 include:

• UI changes across every theme, including re-arranging the account view
• Every theme now has (the same) unread indicator
• Re-arranged settings in Settings app
• Various screens, including contact pickers, followers/friends lists and tweet/DM drafting views now has a dark background when using Twilight theme
• Miles instead of km will be used in proximity search if your system-wide setting is as such
• Better push handling – upon startup, if there is an application badge, meaning there was a push previously and SimplyTweet was not launched), the mentions and DM timelines will be autoloaded
• Support for Twitvid.com
• You can now configure a sound to play when you receive a push
• You can configure a sound to play upon sending a tweet/DM
• You can now send DMs longer than 140 characters. They get broken up into shorter DMs in reverse order so it reads nicely anywhere. And in SimplyTweet, it tries to concat them together into a long DM. Try it!
• Post.ly (Posterous) links now display inline if it is short enough.
• Add support for TwitLonger viewing, similar to inline view for post.ly links
• Updated icons
• Favorited tweets are now indicated in timelines
• When you add a link to Instapaper, the tweet text is now set as the summary
• You can now delete attachments while drafting a tweet/DM. Hint: press the cancel button

These are just some of the changes and cool features in this fantastic app. The app is $4.99 in the app store and is well worth the price. You can buy it from the app store here. If you want some more info on SimplyTweet, be sure to check out http://motionobj.com/simplytweet/

WIN A COPY OF SIMPLYTWEET

Now for the fun part, the Dev team at MobtionObj have kindly sponsored 3 promo codes for the SimplyTweet app, and you can get a FREE copy of this app, by simply leaving a comment below on this post. The competition will close on Wednesday 23 September 5pm SAST.Winners will be chosen randomly using http://www.random.org/. The codes are ONLY valid in the US iTunes App store (To get a US iTunes account follow the steps here http://www.marcforrest.com/2009/08/06/5-iphone-tips-tricks/).

If you would really like to show some support, and help increase your chances of winning, spread the word by tweeting the following message as well :)

Win a copy of SimplyTweet by leaving a comment on @MarcForrest blog -> http://ow.ly/q9Kr. Please RT

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Came across this fantastic site today called Twubble, which allows you to grow your twitter bubble of friends.

What it does is looks at your twitter friends, and searches out who you may like to follow, based on how many of your friends follow them. Sounds confusing, much easier in reality

Check  it out at -> http://www.crazybob.org/twubble/

Source: Wikipedia

Keep an eye on http://www.standardbankpro20.co.za or follow the Twitter stream on http://www.twitter.com/Pro20

Having been asked this question a number of times, I still haven’t really been able to explain it in non-twitterati terms. Until now. The guys from CommonCraft.com have come up with a great 2 and a half minute video, explaining what Twitter is, and how to use it. Check out below, or at CommonCraft.com/Twitter
or this You Tube Video -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o

Over the last couple of months, Twitter has grown in leaps and bounds. Even in South Africa, we have had quite a good growth of Tweeters joining the Twecosystem. (OK, excuse the Twit Jargon…Twecosystem ©Rafiq)

But there seems to be a growing trend amongst Tweeters worldwide not using the system as it was intended. People seem to be using it as a chat system to talk between each other. It can sometimes really get annoying when all you see is one worded irrelevant replies being posted.

Darren Prowse from Problogger has written a brilliant post about how to use Twitter and how to promote your blog using Twitter. I highly recommend this article, as it explains Twitter in great detail.

One of his suggestions to curb the noise generated in on Twitter is to use direct messages:

Learn to Use Direct Messages

“If your reply tweet ratio is out of balance in that you ‘reply’ too much a good way to combat the problem is to consider using direct messages. My own approach to this is that I almost always publicly ‘reply’ to something that someone has Tweeted the first time – but if the conversation continues I’ll take the conversation to ‘direct messages’ after the second or third reply unless I think the conversation has something of value to my wider following community.”

To use direct messaging on Twitter you need to do the following:

“d username message” eg. “d marcforrest great post :)”

I’m sure by using this method there will be far less noise in the Twecosystem, and lots more topical conversation