Category: iPhone

The guys over at Simply Tweet have released their updated version on this awesome app. You will remember a while ago, I did a quick look at Simply Tweet and version 2.3 has really upped the stakes in the iPhone twitter app market.
For me the biggest selling point for this app is the push notifications you get whenever you get a Direct Message or @Reply in your twitter stream. The notification is instant, so you always know whats happening on your twitter stream .I also love that it I can use Posterous for my Picture hosting, as this allows me to upload to all my other services instantly. Another great feature for me, is when you send a DM, even if it over 140 characters it will spilt the DM up into separate DM’s. All in all this is THE best iPhone Twitter client.

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 https://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