Twitterrific firsts

Why are third parties important in the Twitter ecosystem? Let Twitterrific count the ways: First use of “tweet” to describe an update (see page 86 of Dom Sagolla’s book.) First use of a bird icon. First native client on Macintosh. First character counter as you type. First to support replies and conversations (in collaboration with […]

Beta testing on iPhone 2.0

NOTE: It’s not clear if the information in this essay is covered by the NDA or not. The instructions presented here are either referenced on Apple’s own site or referenced in the publicly available version of Xcode. If requested, I will remove this post. During Steve Jobs’ WWDC Keynote the announcement of Ad Hoc distribution […]

Known issues…

First off, thanks to everyone for the kind words about the new version of Twitterrific. It’s really great to get all this awesome feedback! Don’t forget to post a review on iTunes: we want as many stars as possible :-) As with any first software release, there are a few known issues: After you upload […]

Beyond sweet

Now that we all have our iPhones and are discovering what they can do, attention will turn to what they cannot do. And that, in turn, will lead to the fact that there is no third party development of native applications for the device. Of course, you can use HTML and AJAX to do web-based […]