Ahh, drama in the Twitterverse. While we’re used to it being between larger-than-life celebs, this time around it was a very public brawl between Twitter and a third-party app developer that caused a mini-scandal. Twitter had suspended two of the most popular Twitter apps – made by the fast growing Twitter app company, UberMedia – last week, and reversed the suspension on Sunday.
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It looks like one Twitter app maker wants a much bigger piece of the Twitter pie: UberMedia, formerly known as PostUp, formerly known as TweetUp, has made two developer acquisitions in recent weeks. UberMedia creates Twitter applications for mobile and web, and it’s expanding – fast.
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UPDATE: Tweetie has been bought by Twitter and replaced with Twitter For iPhone, which as of the current update is essentially the same. The main difference is that it is now completely free. Read my review here. Tweetie is no longer available on the app store. However, the review below remains valid simply because Twitter For iPhone is for all intents and purposes the exact same application.
I know, I know. I’ve come very late to the highly-regarded Tweetie, and that’s because I’ve also come very late to the iPhone, having owned a 3GS for just a little over one month.
Hence, I have no experience of the original Tweetie, which was released for the iPhone way back in November 2008, and therefore have not had the opportunity to become as passionate about the client as many others.
Please forgive me. I will try to make up for this oversight with enthusiasm and detail.
Honestly? I give Buzz about a week
before it drops off the front page.
So, this is essentially a first look for me, which should provide some comfort that this is an open and honest review.
Prior to getting Tweetie, I was using TweetDeck on my iPhone. The TweetDeck app is free, and because I was familiar with TweetDeck on my PC it seemed logical to install this first. Indeed, I was quite happy with this decision, as for the first three weeks of iPhone-related Twitter usage TweetDeck seemed to hit all of my buttons. It was fast, it was easy to use, and it basically just worked.
(I’ll be reviewing TweetDeck for the iPhone at a later date.)
But all the overwhelming positive mentions of Tweetie kept eating away at me. Could something this loved be anything less than excellent? All of a sudden I was very keen to find out.
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