In large cities, “The subway ate my homework” is about as common an excuse for being late to work as the ol’ doctor’s appointment. No one actually believes it. Luckily, New York’s MTA has an online system that gives you city-certified proof you’re telling the truth. Problem is, it’s slower than the city’s trains. More »
There is a new app available for Series 40 feature phones – and we are talking about Twitter here. This is a new Twitter app that will let you experience some of the richest functionality available on your Series 40 device, at least according to the best of the device’s ability at this point in time. With Twitter for Nokia, you are able to post your own tweets and perhaps even follow others peoples’ tweets. In addition, there is a @Connect feature that enables you to view your mentions apart from new followers, where you can then browse the most interesting tweets worldwide via the #Discover feature.
This new app will also let you enjoy most of the features that are available from a standard issue Twitter client on a smartphone. You are able to download Twitter for Nokia since yesterday wherever Twitter is accessible worldwide. In the future, Series 40 phones will be able to have this particular app pre-installed. If you have already installed it, how do you find the app so far?
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Nokia takes RIM to court again, Twitter updates Android and iOS apps,
A couple of months ago, Twitter did a big overhaul of its mobile site. When your service reaches such massive levels of popularity, there’s a lot a to take into account with even the most minor of redesigns. Over on its official blog, Twitter offers up a fascinating bit of insight into what goes into such a reconfiguration — oh, and if you’ve ever wondered what Twitter looks like on a Samsung Corby, this is the post for you. Check it out in the source link below.
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Twitter’s anatomy of a mobile redesign originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
If you use Twitter’s official Mac app on a MacBook Pro Retina you know that it sucks. It’s a piece of unreadable blurry crap that makes me want to punch my computer. Thankfully, Tapbots came to the rescue with a gorgeous, Retina-optimized Twitter client: Tweetbot. More »
Got a Nokia Series 40 handset and a bad case of Twitter-envy (twenvy?)? Fear not, the service announced today that it’s bringing its micro-blogging magic to the feature phones, promising a zippy native experience. You can download Twitter for Nokia right now from the Nokia Store for free, to sign up, tweet, follow and generally get your Twitter on.
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Twitter comes to Nokia Series 40 feature phones, lets you hashtag with the best of them originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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In early 2009, I was in a journalism class back at ol’ Mizzou. The professor asked who in the lecture was using Twitter. A paltry two or three students of the 150 budding Bernsteins raised their hands. She declared that that number must be multiplied exponentially, and required us all to make accounts. More »
I hardly remember 2006. You probably don’t either. But that’s when Twitter first started! And looking back how we tweeted that fateful first year, it’s probably better that none of us remember it. Just check out how awful everyone was at it: More »
Seemingly anyone who’s used an iPhone (and often the iPad) knows Tweetbot — it’s often the go-to Twitter app for those who prefer not to go the official route. It’s to those users’ delight, then, that Tapbots just posted a free alpha version of Tweetbot for Mac. As you’d anticipate, it’s an attempt to bring much of the app’s power user mojo to the desktop world: you can check just retweets of your content, mute overly chatty people or hashtags, and otherwise get more control than just watching your stream drift by. It’s even (mostly) Retina-ready for that new MacBook Pro. Alpha does mean that there will be a fair amount of things missing; it won’t tap into iCloud or Mountain Lion’s Notification Center until it’s official, for example. But if you’re willing to deal with that and a few potential bugs, it may be time to brush other apps aside — just note that you’ll need Mountain Lion or newer when the app is ready to face the Mac App Store, even though it works with Lion today.
We’ve had a quick spin with the app, and it largely does what it says on the tin: it’s Tweetbot, on the Mac. The primary differences are changes that make sense when a mouse pointer and a larger screen area are available. You can reply, retweet, or view whole conversations from buttons that appear as you hover, rather than using the myriad taps and swipes of the iOS apps. It’s a wonderfully minimalist app, if that’s your thing, and you can open multiple windows (currently through a keyboard shortcut) to get some of that TweetDeck-style power user layout. Our main gripe? Tweetbot on the Mac always updates in a live stream, and there’s no option for intervals; if you follow a lot of people, there’s a chance you might miss something. Still, for an alpha, it’s a decidedly polished and useful effort that doesn’t leave us wanting like a few clients, including Twitter’s own.
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Tweetbot for Mac arrives as free alpha, we give a quick hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Almost a year ago today, Anonymous hacked one of Australian super villain Rupert Murdoch’s crown jewels: The Times. Why? To spread a false report of his death. A year later, he’s shutting them up like rowdy children. Times have changed. More »
MediaTek made headlines not too long ago when it promised to bring dual-core processors to phones costing $199 and under. Now the company has announced a partnership with Twitter that will see the social network integrated with devices featuring MediaTek chips so that users in emerging markets can get in on the tweeting action. MediaTek will bundle Twitter into its reference design for phones as a result of the partnership.
MediaTek will include Twitter in its MRE middleware, enabling “smart-feature phones” that will run Twitter with minimal hardware requirements. Manufacturers can keep offering cheap handsets, and Twitter will reaching a massive user base of customers used to purchasing affordable phones. The app that will be included is said to be a native experience comparable to Twitter for iPhone or Android.
The first chipset that will feature Twitter integration is the MediaTek MT6255, although MediaTek says that Twitter will expand to all of its solutions later on. That would open up the massive Chinese and Asian market to Twitter, as well as other developing markets that current buy devices using MediaTek’s silicon.
MediaTek partners with Twitter on feature phone integration is written by Ben Kersey & originally posted on SlashGear.
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