Twitbit: Full Twitter Client with built-in Push

[Rene Ritchie]

Working well so far, anyone else tried it yet?

http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/07/15/quick-app-twitbit-push-twitter-client-iphone/

 

[Jeremy]

Yes, been waiting for this since 3.0 dropped... Few little things such as retweets missing but I know that will be fixed in the next update...

Other than that, it's sweet!

 

[ctt1wbw]

Yeah, I bought it last night. Works very well, although it's not exactly pleasing to look at. It doesn't load many tweets initially and I wish I could customize it, or make the fonts bigger, or wishing it had themes or something.

For these reasons, I love Twitterific Premium. But Twitbit is okay, they should have promoted it cheaper or even for free like iTwitter did. 5 bucks is steep for a new Twitter app.

 

[megscd]

I agree: for $5 you should get more bang for your buck. Good start, but for now Tweetie + Boxcar is much better IMHO.

 

[anon(153966)]

I just bought it, and thus far it's ok. But, yes, I know $5 isn't much, but still. I think they could have started at $2.99 or something, or even a trial period.

I just bought Boxcar yesterday! Now, where's my refund

 

[anon(153966)]

I just noticed, with the notifications, it doesn't give you the message, it just tells you that you have a 'mention'. Hmm, I prefer Boxcar for this.

 

[ctt1wbw]

No, it doesn't:

 

[anon(153966)]

Sorry, I just noticed. If you receive more than one mention at a time, then it says that. My mistake...

 

[ctt1wbw]

Oh, well then that's cool too. I didn't notice that. Of course, little ol'me doesn't get that many replies and DMs. I'm not that cool like others!

 

[Jeremy]

I give this developer all of the credit in the world. They've beat all others with push notifications built into a twitter app... So until Tweetie and Twitterfon get off their butts and get an update out... this is my new Twitter app.

I don't want some other app to work with another just for push... that's crazy. So you pay for tweetie and then pay for boxcar... no thanks.

 

[anon(153966)]

Hilarious I called Apple to refund me Boxcar, and they won't. At least it wasn't that much...

 

[Jeremy]

Hilarious I called Apple to refund me Boxcar, and they won't. At least it wasn't that much...

I was about to try Boxcar two days ago and then it hit me, with my luck something will get updated or a new Twitter app with push will come out... I was right.

(By the way, I love seeing all these ex-crackberry people making the switch)

 

[ctt1wbw]

I give this developer all of the credit in the world. They've beat all others with push notifications built into a twitter app... So until Tweetie and Twitterfon get off their butts and get an update out... this is my new Twitter app.

I don't want some other app to work with another just for push... that's crazy. So you pay for tweetie and then pay for boxcar... no thanks.

I know what you mean. I was trying out Boxcar and was slightly impressed, but I wanted something more like iTwitter, but worked for all Twitter clients.

So far, so good. I just wish Twitterific would do the same thing in the next update, which I haven't heard about.

 

[jhamilton3]

I like it..

just wish it had more options like different backgrounds, landscape mode, etc..

 

[Jeremy]

Twitbit 1.1 has just been submitted to Apple for approval. I am currently using it and all I can say is wow. Very significant update that makes this twitter app close to being perfect. Hopefully it hits the App Store asap.