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Twitter 360

Saleh Alzaid — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:15:47 +0000

Twitter 360 is a cool iPhone 3GS app that visualizes your Twitter friends tweets located in your nearby environment. It uses the Augmented Reality functionality using the iPhone camera.

You can tweet with the application and view nearby tweets of your friends using the iPhone camera. For further tweets you can view them in Google Maps. More details in the video and the screen shots.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Brilliant idea
Very simple interface
Provides different views for different distances (using iPhone cam for nearby tweets, or Google Maps for further tweets)

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IM+

Saleh Alzaid — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:36:29 +0000

IM+ is a mobile chat app supports Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, AIM, Jabber, ICQ, and Skype! All in one app! And supports huge range of mobile phones devices like iPhone, Nokia, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Android, Samsung, LG, Motorola, SonyEricsson, and any Java phone!

IM+ is free to use for 7 days only, or you can buy it here. It’s similar to Fring but supports more chat agent and social networks (like MySpace) and more mobile phone platforms.

See this review

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very pretty interface	sometimes crashes
Supports wide range of IM/chat clients
Supports wide range of mobile platforms
All your chat friends/social networks in one app!

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Dabr

Saleh Alzaid — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:55:42 +0000

Dabr is Twitter web client for mobiles and can work with any mobile connects to internet. Its interface is very simple to use and has lots of features.

At the top, you have different pages of your friends tweets, replies, direct messages, Twitter search, trends, friends profiles, and favorites. There’s also a page for uploading pictures to TwitPic.

One cool feature of Dabr is the ability to change the interface to best fit your phone screen. In the settings page, there’s an interface for iPhone (touch phones), normal phones, text only, PC/Labtop, and work safe interface (which is a very simple minimal not colored interface to make sure work in all mobiles).

For each tweet, there are options to reply, retweet, DM or to favorite the tweet.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Has OAuth as option for Twitter login
Has many interfaces supporting different types of mobile phones screens
Ability to load pics to TwitPic easily
Good alternative for Twitter web version.

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Echofon (Formerly TwitterFon)

Saleh Alzaid — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:30:13 +0000

Echofon (formerly TwitterFon) is a simple and easy to use iPhone Twitter app with many features.

There’s a free version comes with TwitPic integration, video uploading, shortened URLs previewing and other features.

The pro version (for $4.99) comes with much extra features like supporting multiple Twitter account, push notifications , sync Echofon iPhone with Echofon Firefox plugin (TwitterFox), ad free, bit.ly and Flickr integration, and others. Check all features of both versions here.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very simple interface	Doesn’t support accepting follow requests to private Twitter account (has to be done from the Twitter web)
Sync with Echofon Firefox plugin (TwitterFox) – Pro version
Supports push notifications – Pro version

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App Notifications

Saleh Alzaid — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:02:51 +0000

App Notifications is an iPhone app that provide real-time notifications for Twitter, GMail, Google Voice, RSS feeds, and many other services. Just register an account with appnotifications.com, download the app from the App Store ($1.99), and start being updated instantly!

It’s very similar to Boxcar app, however Boxcar supports Twitter notifications only and through specific Twitter iPhone clients (covered in the Boxcar post).

App Notifications provides an API for the developers to apply instant notifications to custom services!

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Support many services: Twitter, GMail, RSS feeds, and others
Provides an API for developers
Great idea for wide support of push notifications to iPhones

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SimplyTweet

Saleh Alzaid — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:41:01 +0000

SimplyTweet is an iPhone Twitter app with push notifications and special features. Considered as one of best current Twitter apps for iPhone. One cool feature of the app is the ability to integrate it with HootSuite web Twitter client which is very helpful in managing multiple Twitter accounts.

The app also support pictures and video sharing through many Twitter media sharing apps like TwitPic or yFrog. The app is for $5.00 and available in the App Store here.

The interface is cool and very esy to use. Watch the review:

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Supports push notifications!
Provides many many features
Can integrate with HootSuite
Very simple and beautiful interface

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Birdbrain

Saleh Alzaid — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:37:04 +0000

Birdbrain is an iPhone/iPod touch app that monitors your Twitter network for changes. It provides daily, weekly and monthly overviews of your friends like who is new and who left. It supports also multiple accounts.

The application is not considered as a Twitter client, but a complementary app. The app is not free for $1.99 and available in the AppStore here.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Provides different functionality than others Twitter iPhone apps

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Boxcar

Saleh Alzaid — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:20:11 +0000

Boxcar is an iPhone app that enables push notifications when someone mentions you on Twitter, or sends you a direct message through your favorite iPhone Twitter app.

Boxcar supports many iPhone Twitter apps: Twittelator Pro, Tweetie, Twitterrific, TwitterFon or Twinkle!

The app is available on the App Store for $2.99.

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TwitVid

Saleh Alzaid — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:18:15 +0000

TwitVid.com is the easiest way to share videos on Twitter. Differ than TwitVid.io that we covered before , with TwitVid.com you can share your videos on Twitter, YouTube, MySpace using your computer webcam, iPhone or BlackBerry!

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Simple nice interface	Doesn’t use OAuth for Twitter login
Supports sharing videos on Youtube and MySpace
Provide comments on the videos
Has an iPhone and BlackBerry video application
Provides an API for developers

Screenshot

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Fring

Saleh Alzaid — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:37:52 +0000

Fring is a free and great mobile app for twitter, social networks and Instant Messenger (IM) applications. It supports tremendous number of mobile phones types like iPhone, Nokia, Sony Erricson, HTC, Motorola, LG and many other! (see the full list below).

Fring joins all your network in Facebook, MSN messenger, Google Talk, Yahoo messenger, Skype, AIM … plus Twitter in one simple mobile app. You can also make free calls using the IM application functionality (like Google Talk) or by using the SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) which is the IP network protocol used for VOIP (Voice Over IP) telephony.

For Nokia and most mobiles, Fring is a Symbian java application.

Review

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Simple interface	Little bit slow
Free app!
Supports many IM applications
Supports calls over the internet
Supports many mobile phones devices

The mobile phone supported by Fring:
Nokia, Samsung, Acer, Airis, Amoi, AnexTEK’, Apple iPhone/iTouch, Asus, AT Mobile, AT&T, Audiovox, Bell, BenQ, Cingular, CN3, CV30, Dell, Dopod, ETEN, Fifth Media, FujitsuSiemens, Gigabyte, HP, HTC, i-mate, Inventec, iteq, izen, Kinpo, Lenovo, LG, Mitac, Motorola, O2, Okwap, Orange, ORSiO, Palm, Pantech, Paragon, Pharos, Qtek, Quanta, Qwest, RoverPC, Samsung, Sharp, Softbank, Sprint, Swisscom, T-Mobile, Tatung, TechFaithWireless, Toshiba, Trimble, Typhoon, UTStarcom, Verizon, Vodafone, Znum, Sony Ericsson.