Tweetie 2.1 Adds Lists, Retweet, and Geotagging Features

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Tweetie 2 (iTunes Link) is one of the most popular Twitter apps on the iPhone. With new features such as lists and retweets recently introduced by Twitter, it is only natural to expect iPhone Twitter app updates to include these features. But not this fast! It seems only 2 weeks ago that Twitter fully launched their new “lists” and “retweet” feature. Twitter lists allow users to group other twitter users into a list for easy management. The retweet feature is inspired from current retweeting habits and conventions such that users will hear valuable information within the Twitter community.

Tweetie 2.1 incorporates the “lists” and “retweet” feature. Geotagging is also enabled. Now everyone can know where you are tweeting from. Just tap the geotagging icon when writing a new tweet. Wait for a while until a red antenna icon appears. Then, send your tweet and your tweeting location will be unveiled.

At the bottom navigation bar, Twitter lists can be accessed when tapping the “(…)” icon. View, manage and add new lists right on your iPhone! The @ button on the bottom navigation bar will allow users to check their mentions. See who have retweeted your post! The new twitter styled re-tweets will get a small pink corner icon on the top right of the dialog box. When looking at another person’s tweets, users can also chose to retweet, quote retweet (old-styled retweets), post link to tweet, email your tweet, or translate the tweet.

There are also other new features included in this update. Users can report spam, make a torn gap in their timeline with the tweet-stream “gap” detection feature, disabling pin-stripes, and other user interface enhancements.

It is nice to see Tweetie 2 is bringing these new Tweeter features to their iPhone app so quickly. But with these additions, the current users must be wondering.. Whatever happened to Twitter push notifications? It is still surprisingly lacking in this update. I am currently using IM+ Messenger (iTunes Link) to get tweets as well as instant messages from major IM platforms via push notification. Thus if users want to get the best tweeting experience on their iPhone, at least for now, they need to use a combination of the award winning user interface of Tweetie 2 and another push-enabled Twitter client such as IM+.

This is a post by The Apps Machine