Twitter for iPhone (Tweetie 3.0) slowly going live around the world
By Darren Murph 
posted May 18th 2010 9:28PM
posted May 18th 2010 9:28PM
Update: It's live in New Zealand, and the full changelog is after the break. Hang tight, everyone else!
Update 2: We're seeing scattered reports that it's now available in the US. Thanks for the image, Danny!
[Thanks, Mike]
- Tweetie is now Twitter! We didn't just do a name change, we've added a bunch of new stuff.
- Search has been reorganized, now you can search all tweets and find users in the same spot, view Top Tweets and Browse Suggested users.
- Search results now include Top Tweets, try it with Trends...winner combo!
- You can now use Twitter without an account! Search, Browse uses, view trends and top tweets.
- Sign-up is now availabile within the application as well, complete with Suggested user list.
- More tab has been re-organized to accomplish all this. Users with one account can add a second account under the Accounts and Settings button here.
- Actions we've found people use most, like Retweet have been moved to the main actions bar.
- Minor tweaks were made to tweet rendering so they match Twitter.com tweets
We're receiving the first screenshots, and the app has a new icon. Images courtesy of @sam_symons.
Twitter seems... kind of useless to me.
To each their own I guess.
@SolidSnake Twitter is completely useless to me, and is not available where I am anyway. I think I can live without telling the whole world what I'm doing or eating in short sentences.
It's basically a giant pool of RSS feeds. Some are useful, such as news sites or celebrities/bands you like. Others are a complete waste of time, such as... all our friends
@mukatuna Not available where you are? Well you have a way to connect to the internet somehow so if your ISP/work/etc is now allowing you to access Twitter there are plenty of ways around that. I would be happy to share with you but you don't seem that into the whole deal anyway.
@DBG Actually it's the country which doesn't allow access to Twitter, I'm currently living and working in China.
I could access Twitter if I really wanted via a VPN or TOR. However I've found RSS feeds serve me just fine for following my favourite tech blogs. I can certainly access Engadget obviously :)
@EGOvoruhk "It's basically a giant pool of RSS feeds." ouch
if you would say "giant pool of SMS and MSM geotagged messages" it would be much closer description
@SolidSnake
my friend just got hired to do a job with LucasArts through Twitter.
@EGOvoruhk
This blog post is missing its 'apple' tag.
@E71 This blog is missing its Apple tag.
I hope it's as good of an update as Tweetie 2 was from Tweetie 1... Tweetie two is what's up.
@account5
"twitter is lame garbage"
"I actually like twitter"
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@Yoda
its garbage but i like it for distributing spyware/malware. what dont you get?
@account5
Well, I don't get how you like it and hate it.
I also still fail to grasp how a human being is capable of enjoying ruining peoples financial investments with malware and spyware.
@Yoda
Because its funny.
@account5 Hey your friends have found a practical use for Twitter. That's awesome man.
@account5 Youre a tool.
Account 5 = most successful troll in Engadget history...
@MattsZ
Whatever happen to Mr. Paul A. Chapel?
I must be growing old..
I agree, account5 is small fry still. He's been really active for a short period of time but doesn't have Chapel's longevity, yet.
@Sean Connery
Honestly, I think Paul A. Chapel is now "Jack".
The passion behind the apple defense posts strikes a similar chord.
Is this the same version we've had on Android for over a month? The one that the developers can just publish to the market without having to wait for approval from Apple?
Good app :)
@scoobydooby
come on we all know android is a joke compared to the iphone.
@scoobydooby Is your comment relevant in any way?
But, to answer your question, no, version 3 of Twitter for the Mac is actually the third version of a long-time Twitter app for the iPhone named Tweetie, which was purchased by Twitter, renamed and updated. It's not a new-from-Twitter app.
@scoobydooby
So android's current selling point is having a twitter app for over a month?
OMFG...now I've heard everything on Engadget. Truly this might be the most pathetic thing I've seen here.
Now I love Facebook and I'm thinking about joining Twitter but I honestly cannot for the life of me imagine how you can think that Twitter is the "killer app" for android....
It boggles the mind what you Apple Haters will say.
@TheLondonExchange - and it boggles the mind what Apple fans will say. One negative word about Apple, and I'm a hater? I have a 32GB 3GS in front of me, as well as a 3G iPad - but because one idiot on the Internet saw me say something mean about Apple, I'm a hater.
Congratulations @TheLondonExchange - you are officially the dumbest troll I've read all day. New day tomorrow, good luck with that one.
@scoobydooby wow your comment reeks of failure on so many levels.
Twitter bought the rights to Tweetie, the acclaimed and widely regarded best Twitter iPhone app and decided to rebrand it as the official Twitter app.
Tweetie has been around for years.
But good job at a failed attempt to do another iPhone related bashing.
@xolan99 Can't you read? My comment was directed at the App store - the Android version of Tweetie (the official Twitter app for Android) was in the Market 12 hours after the purchase by Twitter. But the iPhone version took a month to be available.
I don't get why you all jump on me for bashing the iPhone, when I did no such thing - I love mine, and I love Tweetie - I'm just pointing out that there was a one month gap when the paid version was still there, awaiting the "official new" version to be approved and loaded.
Don't jump over me for pointing out the obvious, jump on Apple for their insane approval process.
@account5 and look...apple just put teetering with OS 4 because 2.2 will have teetering....
I guess the iphone is a joke now compared to andriod huh?
@scoobydooby
Any idiot can say they own an iphone
Do you really expect me to believe that shit?
Stop lying. You don't like the iPhone. You don't own one. You are here for one reason and one reason ONLY. To bash the iPhone and the App Store.
Again I ask do you really think anyone cares that android had a twitter app for over a month?
LMAO. What a fail attempt at trolling. And FYI I'm not trolling by calling you out on your bullshit
@TheLondonExchange
Sorry, but you are actually the worst person I've seen on the Engadget for YEARS, and reading other comments about you for weeks I see I'm not the only one who thinks like that.
As for comments above, guy writes:
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"Is this the same version we've had on Android for over a month? The one that the developers can just publish to the market without having to wait for approval from Apple?
Good app :)"
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You're replying with:
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"So android's current selling point is having a twitter app for over a month? ... you can think that Twitter is the "killer app" for android...."
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I WILL buy a ticket to wherever you live, so you SHOW me with your f@#$!ng FINGER, WHERE in that guys 148 characters comment is ANY MENTION of ANYTHING about SALES or KILLER APP or ANDROID IS BETTER THAN iPHONE? You are so *swear word(very bad one)* that you see some kind of ANDROID/iPHONE war going on in every comment that has a google/apple/android/iphone word.
As you are *swear word*, I'll explain you that by that comment guy meant that Apple is very strict, as we can see in practice it took month extra to approve an app comparing to Google, with a little sarcasm. As a conclusion we understand that Google is less strict, takes faster to approve an application => Google is more open and free.
Repeating my self, where the F have you seen any mention of some sort of SELLING POINT and other bullcrap you're writing? You're just a piece of troll, get used to it if you didn't understand it yourself yet. Please restrain from writing anything anywhere EVER until you get some common sense logic, *swear word*-er.
@AA Alex
Good thing unlike you I'm not obsessed with popularity on a BLOG....nor am I'm some whore who will just say anything to get "upranked" like you peons...
@AA Alex He aint the worst....that Joanna person is on another level.
@scoobydooby Again, fail, because the intention was never to release the rebranded Twitter app right away.
The developer was hired by Twitter to rework the app and also develop an app for the iPad.
Meanwhile, the official Twitter apps that showed up on Blackberry and Android were long indevelopment by the Twitter team themselves.
There was never a holdup in the approval process because a new version of Tweetie was released a few weeks ago with an update and an announcement about the pending app.
@AA Alex Best post I've read in a long time.
You an idiot. That been in iPhone os 3.0 since last year but blame AT&T for not letting us use it. Make sure you know what you talking about before posting crap.
140 wasted characters that you can never get back.
@Darkseid yes you can - delete them
Twitter was alive for a little while, now it's dead again.
I hope it comes back to life soon. It's a good site, all it needs is more people to join.
@John Lennon All it needs is love.
Not worth considering or downloading unless it has push notifications for DMs or mentions. Echofon will have it beat until then because a slick interface is only as good as an app's overall functionality.
@mukatuna
Pfft, he doesn't have friends.
Microsoft beat Apple to the punch on this one
@cc3d ...
Microsoft?
@Jaycos Account5 maybe a tool for what he and his friends are doing. However it does highlight a very serious problem of Twitter and how it works with shortened URLs, such as tinyurl and bit.ly. I certainly never click on these shortened URLs.
People can't actually see where they are been re-directed to. They don't know if it's a legitimate site or some malware site, which infects someone's PC just by visiting that site.
All it takes is some celeb's account with many followers to get hacked, this has happened many times, and all hell breaks loose.
It shows up for me in my iTunes app updates, but then say's it's not available yet... Hmmm...
Oh well.
what the fuck is twitter
@brookey86 You must have taken a wrong turn at TVLand.com and ended up on Engadget by mistake =p.
@brookey86 You know Twitter is like herpes, fun getting it, not so much fun living with it. I echo that, what is Twitter and why would anyone need this useless service, other than for distributing malware to trigger happy clickers. Oh what joy.
@mukatuna There actually plugins for Firefox and Chrome (possibly others) that will show you the redirect before you click on the link. I'm not saying it's the ideal solution but if you choose to participate on Twitter it's handy.
I've been waiting for this since it got taken down from the appstore last night. Hopefully they make this app for Windows Phone 7 when it comes out.