Dec
2010
TweetAgora v2.1.1
We just released TweetAgora v2.1.1 on the App Store!
• Retina Avatars: For all you iPhone4 owners out there, TweetAgora now displays avatars in beautiful high resolution!
• Filter iTunes Ping: Yet another annoying service to banish from your timeline
• New Home Timeline setting for “Load More”: You can now choose to Load Above or Load Below current position
• Support for changes in Twitter API: As the Twitter API changes, so must TweetAgora…
• iOS 4.2 Support: As iOS changes, so must TweetAgora…
• Fix for Shared Agoras: Spaces and hashtags are now properly imported when using shared agoras
Thanks for your support, and feel free to spread the good word of TweetAgora!
Nov
2010
TweetAgora Listed on iLounge’s ‘Essential iOS Apps of 2010′ List
We’ve very proud to announce that TweetAgora made it into iLounge’s 2011 iPod/iPhone/iPad Buyer’s Guide, being named as one of the Essential iOS Apps of 2010! The guide weighs in at a hefty 208 pages, so get your wallets ready because there are a lot of great recommendations in there (especially at the bottom of page 51!). The guide is free to download, so what are you waiting for? Check it out!
Nov
2010
Boxcar now supports TweetAgora!
Just a quick update to let you all know that the awesome Boxcar push-notification app now supports TweetAgora! So for all of you who were looking for push notifications, just download Boxcar and set TweetAgora as your Twitter client (you may need to refresh your Twitter list within Boxcar to see TweetAgora).
Oct
2010
TweetAgora v2.1!
TweetAgora v2.1 has just been approved & released on the App Store, and frankly we’re ecstatic about it! Here’s a rundown of all the cool new stuff it brings:
• Improved UI: Less middling-brown, more dark-leather / Louis Vuitton
• Share Agoras with your followers: Search for the #SharedAgora hashtag to find shared Agoras (requires TweetAgora v2.1)
• Gap detection in Agoras: “Load More Tweets” button when there are timeline gaps
• Configurable timeline swipe actions: Currently, swiping left on a tweet will perform a reply action, and swiping right will perform a retweet action. Now you can go to Settings > TweetAgora, and assign either swipe to reply, retweet, view user profile, or view link
• View full sized avatars: Tap an avatar from the user profile to see the full-sized version
• Improved Instapaper and ReadItLater integration: Send to Instapaper/Read it Later from the tweet view
• Paper.li added to Filters page: No more annoying paper.li tweets! (full version only)
• Improved performance and bug fixes: Faster initial loading, beter overall performance & stability
• Improved power consumption: TweetAgora’s already-low power consumption is even lower
• URL Scheme integration: TweetAgora can now be launched using ta:// links – we use these (shortened by tinyurl) to share agoras, but there are lots of other things they can do – we’ll write a follow-up post on these soon
So please, grab the latest version of TweetAgora and start sharing those Agoras!
Oct
2010
We Need Your Votes!
The 2010 Mashable Awards are coming up, and from now until the end of November they’re accepting nominations in a number of categories. We’re probably long-shots to win anything, but if you could take a moment to vote for us in one (or both) of the categories below, we’d really appreciate it. The process is simple; just log in using your Twitter (or Facebook) credentials, then click the “Nominate” button”. Apparently they’re also ok with voting daily, so feel free to vote for us more than once!
Best Social Media Management Tool
Best Use of an API
(Thanks!)
Sep
2010
TweetAgora v2.0.1 = fix for OS3.x iPhones
Just a quick note to everyone that v2.0.1 of TweetAgora was just approved on the App Store. This update fixes the unfortunate crashing issue that was affecting phones that weren’t upgraded to OS4. So update and enjoy!
Sep
2010
Use Cases, Part 2: Lists vs Agoras
Twitter Lists are a great way to organize the people you’d like to follow, and we’re confident in saying that TweetAgora has one of the best implementations of Lists around. For some cases however, using an Agora can be a better fit. Here’s a quick overview of the advantages of using a Twitter List vs using an Agora in TweetAgora:
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Sep
2010
TweetAgora v2 is out!
We’re very proud to announce that TweetAgora v2 is now available on the App Store – here’s what it includes:
• Cadmus Integration: TweetAgora is the first Twitter client to take advantage of services from Cadmus. Once you’ve authenticated Cadmus using OAuth, some exciting new features become available:
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Aug
2010
Use Cases, Part 1: The Follow-and-Mute
Having written about some of our design decisions, now we’re going to change gears a little and talk about Use Cases for TweetAgora that you might not have considered. First up: “The Follow-and-Mute”.
When someone adds you on Twitter you can either follow them back, or not. If you’ve never met them before, your decision process is pretty simple: check out their bio, scan through their tweets, and if they seem interesting you follow them back.
Jul
2010
Design Decisions, Part 3: Old-School (RT) Retweets
Like many of you, when Twitter introduced the “new style” retweets we shook our heads. Their intentions were good: being able to retweet long tweets, ensuring that the original tweet has been unedited, and hiding repeat retweets from the timeline are all theoretically good things…but RT-style retweets got popular for a reason.
The ability to add personal commentary to a retweet changes the whole context of the interaction. Sometimes an original tweet only has retweet value when additional commentary is added. Asking a question, adding information, or expressing disagreement in an RT can be a huge conversation-starter. Sometimes it can be difficult to squeeze in extra commentary for longer tweets, but it’s usually easy enough to tweak the original tweet without losing the core message.