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Apple creates official Twitter account for the iTunes App Store
Apple this evening unveiled an official Twitter account for the iTunes App Store where users can get info about new and exciting apps in addition to being privy to exclusive offers. Since launching a few hours ago, the number of followers has skyrocketed to 39,000+. As you might expect, the official name for the account […]
Continue reading...Tweetie 2.0 will be available on the Mac App Store tomorrow
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
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Razorianfly got an exclusive sneak peek at Tweetie 2.0 for the Mac. The brain child of former Apple engineer Loren Brichter, Tweetie originally found fame as an elegant and popular Twitter app for the iPhone. Building upon that success, Brichter released a desktop version of the software in April of 2009. Now, a little over […]
Continue reading...Apple Senior VP of Marketing Phil Schiller is all up in Twitter
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Phil Schiller, Apple’s Senior VP of marketing is all up in Twitter ya’ll, haven’t you heard? Though a member for over two years, Schiller didn’t tweet very much, if at all, until 9to5Mac noticed a flurry of activity from Schiller’s account recently. Somewhat impressively, when you consider how secretive Apple is, Schiller not only posts […]
Continue reading...Apple and Twitter strike deal over Ping/Twitter integration
Thursday, November 11, 2010
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Twitter today announced that it would be integrating Ping, Apple’s social networking service in iTunes, with Twitter. Users will now be able to share musical discoveries, song previews, and links to purchased and downloaded music from iTunes right into their Tweets. On Ping you can easily link to your Twitter account to instantly find Ping users […]
Continue reading...Official Twitter app for the iPad is now available for download
Thursday, September 2, 2010
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Loren Brichter is up to his old tricks, having worked on the recently released Twitter app for the iPad. It’s available as a free universal binary and can be downloaded here. Below is a video of the app in action. \ Engadget has a review of the app over here.
Continue reading...Loren Brichter working on “amazing” Twitter client?
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
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Or so it would appear from this tweet he sent out on Monday afternoon. Brichter, of course, is the mastermind behind the Tweetie iPhone app, which was subsequently purchased by Twitter and repackaged as their default Twitter client. But who knows what other concoction Brichter has cooking up in the labs, Tweetie for the iPad perhaps?
Continue reading...Scott Forstall, Apple’s Senior VP of iOS software, joins Twitter
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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It’s verified and good to go. Apple’s Senior VP of iOS software, Scott Forstall, is up on Twitter and as of now is only following one person, Conan O’Brien. Apple is notorious about keeping Apple employees from blogging and the like, so it’ll be interesting to see what Scott ends up using his Twitter account […]
Continue reading...Roger Ebert pulls a 180 on Twitter
Saturday, June 12, 2010
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The alway eloquent Roger Ebert has pulled a complete 180 on Twitter. No longer a critic, he’s now a fan. And an addicted one, at that. I vowed I would never become a Twit. Now I have Tweeted nearly 10,000 Tweets. I said Twitter represented the end of civilization. It now represents a part of […]
Continue reading...New York Times bans use of the word “Tweet”
Thursday, June 10, 2010
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The New York Times, largely regarded as the “newspaper of record” here in the United States, is putting the clamp down on the use of the word “tweet” in news articles. Phil Corbett, who assumed the role as the Times’ standards editor back in 2009, sent out a memo to employees yesterday explaining why the […]
Continue reading...Tweetie 2 no longer available on iTunes, official “Twitter for iPhone” client imminent
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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Back in April, Loren Brichter’s award winning Twitter client Tweetie was acquired by Twitter. As part of the deal, it was announced Tweetie 2 would eventually be renamed “Twitter for iPhone” and that it would soon become the default mobile Twitter client from Twitter – all for free, mind you. And now it appears that […]
Continue reading...Twitter acquires Tweetie, Loren Brichter to join Twitter mobile team
Saturday, April 10, 2010
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With all the hubbub surrounding the iPad and which apps were going to be available on launch day, one popular iPhone app was conspicuously absent from the discussion – Tweetie. Tweeie is, in my opinion, the best Twitter client for the iPhone and the Mac. Developed by former Apple engineer Loren Brichter, Tweetie has won […]
Continue reading...The tweet that infuriated Steve Jobs
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
For as much of a public showman as Steve Jobs is, he is a notoriously private person, and his obsession with privacy clearly seeps into the culture at Apple where unannounced products are never talked about and product leaks are handled with utmost severity. The latest and greatest product to emerge from Cupertino is the […]
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Monday, January 24, 2011
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