This video was made a couple of days ago and was initially just to show Mauku running on the N900. It’s a very simple, fast and easy to use twitter application, getting you to your twitter feed and sending out tweets quickly – respond/retweet and check out other people’s posted links.

To get Mauku,

1. Go to the App Manager

2. Click Downloads
3. You’ll find Mauku either from “Internet & Networking” category or from “All”
4. Just click “Mauku”, check “I understand and agree” and “continue” (Another great thing about the N900 and Maemo 5 is that it’s so easy to install an application. No deciding whether to install on Memory card, phone or mass memory, or having to accept certificate after certificate…Click install – Done.)

Whilst it’s fantastic that the N900 can load up websites like your computer does (check out N900 with YouTube – just fantastic!), some sites like twitter.com do need a little work around for mobile and the smaller screen.

Mauku is great for getting your tweets out quickly on the go and interacting with your feeds, but it doesn’t offer the same functionality as Nokia’s favourite Twitter app: Gravity. E.g.

• cannot view replies from people you don’t follow
• cannot view direct messsages
• cannot twitter search
• cannot upload photos.
• cannot have drafts

I’d love to see Gravity for the N900 or Perhaps another Twitter App, perhaps an updated Mauku or a new one that offers the same functionality as Mauku.

Whilst we wait, because the N900 does have a powerful browser, it can load web clients for twitter. So it’s just a case of how well the site is optimized to be as simple and intuitive a user experience as possible.

• Mark Guim from The Nokia Blog showed us Hahlo, which looks great on the N900. It’s one of my desktop bookmarks now.

• TwitHive and twitter gadget are a couple more examples.

Do you know a better web client for twitter that’s better than Hahlo?

There are some things I have to say about the websites Hahlo and Twitstat Mobile. I tried both applications early June and both are two-way and difficult to send direct messages with. Direct messages can however be viewed. When I reply to a tweet with Hahlo, the particular tweet does not show what tweet I just replied to. In the timeline all @replies which have been written in another program have a button to show the tweet being replied to. Another annoying thing is that every few hours I have to login again. This application was built for a mobile device. Through their menu it is possible to sent a direct message to another user or even yourself.

Twitstat Mobile was built for a mobile phone too. The timeline shows multiple functions; muting users, showing a conversation between users, showing pictures from TwitPic and MobyPicture, add to favorites, retweet, and reply. There is a whole menu with settings and saved searches. This could be interesting on a mobile phone to use. The function to actually mute users you follow is similar to Twalala. The dialogue function in Twitstat Mobile does not show the conversation between users like Twalala does.

Since I last wrote about Twalala they have developed a new feature; in every @reply there is a new button in the lower right corner of the tweet with ‘Re:’ on it and when selected this shows the conversation between users. Another new feature is the link to the original tweet in a reply made with Twalala, they did not have this feature when I first used it. I tested this before and on June 20th again.

To get to the next level in my thesis I need to use this blog to ask myself more (detailed) questions, about what experiences of me and other users mean, what could be said about connectivity between users and what are the changes in their communication? What dilemmas are there in following and what does this mean? Why do some users refuse to follow other users and what happens to their connection in real life?

An example of problems with privacy is a user who says on one medium that he or she is busy or has made arrangements with someone, while on another medium (like Twitter) the same user says something different. It is difficult to know who reads a certain tweet and how this will be interpreted. It means that users have to be careful about what they write online and should take other media in consideration. It also means that privacy matters. Some users have a private account and deliberately deny access to certain users, although the users who are being denied access could consider this as an offence because both users have friends in common. The use of Twitter looks so easy as an account is made within a minute but once a user realizes he or she has to be careful what to say. The main question of Twitter ‘what are you doing?’ gets another meaning this way and is not about a certain activity forces the user to think, what can they do online and what should they not do? Friendships can be made on Twitter but also be destroyed because of mis-interpreted words. This is one of the Twitter implications when a user thinks somebody else implies something.

Just to be clear, the stories above are not my own experiences but bits and pieces of stories of people I follow and hear about. Even though an account is set to private, @replies to a private user can still be read through the use of Twitter search or Google. Stories can be verified this way and could add to the image of that private user. Although twitter accounts can be set to private, Twitter is still not a Walled Garden, in the sense that outsiders can still read @replies from other users. Social network sites which are a Walled Garden are more difficult to read without being logged in than Twitter. [...]

I spotted this article. Maybe we didn’t get all this from Facebook in advance, but the difference about Twitter seems to be that it’s so well drilled to get people using it somehow commercially:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/17/99-essential-twitter-tools-and-applications/

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99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications

By Paul Andrew, March 17th, 2009 in Developer’s Toolbox | 120 Comments |Forum

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by Paul Andrew

If you haven’t heard of Twitter by now, you must be living under a rock! It is everywhere, and everyone is using it. To say that the rise of Twitter has been explosive would be an understatement. As a result of this growth, the number of Twitter apps and tools available has become extensive. So, in this post we have filtered them down to a respectable 99.

Below, we present 99 Essential Twitter Tools and Applications, split into the following categories: Tools and Productivity Apps, Statistics and Analytics, Find New Twitter Friends Apps, Search Twitter Apps, Web-Based Mobile Apps, WordPress Twitter Plug-Ins, Adobe Air Twitter Apps and Firefox Twitter Extensions.

You may want to take a look at the following related posts:

• 50 Twitter Tools and Tutorials For Designers and Developers
• 15 Useful Twitter Plugins and Hacks For WordPress
• 8 Useful Tips To Become Successful With Twitter

Tools and Productivity Apps

Twittercal
Twittercal is a service that connects your Twitter account to your Google Calendar and lets you add events easily, directly from your Twitter account.

Twitpay
TwitPay is a simple way to send payments via Twitter.

Twibs
Find, follow and interact with businesses, apps and services on Twitter.

Twittermail.com
Users can post to their Twitter account by sending a message to their own unique email address.

Twitzu
Promote your business, special offers, promotions and events with Twitzu.

Twuffer
Twuffer allows the Twitter user to compose a list of future tweets and schedule their release.

TweetLater
This app allows you to post Tweets at a later time and date.

GroupTweet
Send private Twitter messages to specific groups of friends.

Twitter Alerts
Keep track of conversations that mention you, your products, your company and anything else, via hourly email updates.

TwitPic
TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter. You can post pictures to TwitPic from your phone, the TwitPic home page or your Twitter account.

Your Twitter Karma
Twitter needs a decent page for your followers, with the functionality to sort them by type. This Web app does that.

Mr. Tweet
A personal networking assistant for Twitter, helping you identify relevant followers, recommending you to other users and regularly computing your Twitter usage statistics.

Remember The Milk
Remember The Milk keeps track of your tasks. Simply add Remember The Milk as your friend, and you can add and interact with your tasks through direct messages and get reminders, too.

StrawPoll
StrawPoll is the coolest way to follow the opinions of people on Twitter. With this app, you can create your own poll.

Twiddict
If Twitter goes down and you start to feel withdrawal symptoms, use this service to continue using it. Twiddict makes sure all your tweets end up going to the proper place.

Twitter Friends Network Browser
Browse through your Twitter friends, your friends’ friends, your friends’ friends’ friends…

Twitterfeed
Post your RSS feed to Twitter automatically.

Twitturly
Twitturly is a service for tracking what URLs people are talking about, as they talk about them, on Twitter.

Twittonary
The Twitter Dictionary, aka Twittonary, provides explanations of various Twitter-related words.

twtQpon
Enhance your social media marketing by offering discount coupons to the Twitter-sphere!

twenglish 
Twitter translator: Simply type in your tweet, and twenglish will twanslate your tweet for you.

twtcard
Send a greeting card, a surprise message or an invitation on Twitter.

Tweet What You Spend
Cash-tracking made simple with Twitter.

Twittertise
Twittertise allows you to advertise on Twitter and track the success of your branded communications with customers.

TwitWall
With TwitWall, you can embed your favorite videos and widgets and upload your photos, MP3 music, podcasts, you name it.

UnTweeps
Unfollow Tweeps who have not posted tweets recently.

TwitRand();
Select a random Twitter follower, friend or retweeter.

TwitBlocker
If you become overwhelmed by a Twitter user’s constant tweets, you can keep them quiet with a single click of a button.

Twitterless
Twitterless tells you who stops following you and graphs your follower history over time, displaying the info in a variety of useful views.

Twonvert
With Twonvert, you can easily convert your tweets into SMS shorthand language and say more with less characters.

Postica
Create a sticky note for your tweets.

twi8r
Translate from English to text message shorthand and vice versa.

Twitter Statistics and Analytics

Twitterholic.com
This website is constantly being updated to allow you to find the most popular Twitter users. Want to be on the list? Twitter constantly.

TweetStats
An app that tracks your number of tweets per hour and per month. It basically creates a graph based on your tweets.

Twitter Grader
Twitter Grader measures the power of your Twitter profile. How high do you rank?

twInfluence
Similar to Twitter Grader, twInfluence lets you calculate the indirect influence of you and your followers on Twitter.

TwitterCounter
A thorough analytical Web app.

tweetVolume
Enter keywords or a phrase and see how often it appears on Twitter.

Twist
See trends on Twitter; find out what’s hot and what people are saying about it.

TweetRush
TweetRush provides estimated statistics on Twitter usage over a period of time.

Tweetwasters
Just how much time do you spend on Twitter? Are you wasting time?

Find New Twitter Friends Apps

TwitterTroll.com
TwitterTroll.com is a real-time Twitter search engine to find new friends.

Just Tweet It
Just Tweet It makes it easier for tweeters to find other tweeters with similar interests.

Friend or Follow
Who are you following who is not following you back?

Qwitter: Catching Twitter quitters
Qwitter emails you when someone stops following you on Twitter.

Twubble
Twubble is a Twitter extension that helps you find more friends.

Twitter Follower-Friend Ratio
Your Twitter ratio is the ratio of your followers to friends (i.e. people you follow). It is measured with the TFF ratio (Twitter follower to friend ratio). The higher the ratio, the more Twitter heat you pack.

Nearby Tweets
Who is tweeting close to you? This app helps you connect with them.

Search Twitter Apps

WhosTalkin
WhosTalkin is a tool that allows users to search for conversations on the topics they care about most.

Twitter Search
Search Twitter is an excellent search engine that allows you to find out what’s happening in the world beyond your personal timeline.

Flaptor Twitter Search
Comprehensive Twitter search.

Twitscoop
Input a Twitter username or keywords in the Twitscoop search box to track a conversation, topic or conference.

Twellow
With Twellow, you can search for someone on Twitter or browse through various tweet categories.

twitSeeker
twitSeeker is an alternate search engine for finding Twitter users and browsing the results in one interface.

Twitter Web-Based Mobile Apps

Hahlo
Hahlo is an excellent and fully featured Twitter client for your iPhone and iPod Touch.

TwitterFone
Send messages to Twitter using your voice.

PocketTweets
PocketTweets is a Web-based Twitter client for the Apple iPhone.

TinyTwitter
TinyTwitter works on any Java-enabled device and any Windows Mobile Pocket PC or smartphone.

TwitterBerry
TwitterBerry is a mobile client for posting updates to Twitter from your BlackBerry.

twitxr
Share pictures and status updates from your mobile.

Slandr
Slandr delivers an enhanced mobile website for Twitter.

Twitter2Go
Twitter2Go provides a quick and simple way to update your Twitter status.

Tapulous
Discover, connect with and send messages to people nearby. Upload photos and update your Twitter account.

Twittelator
Twittelator is an all-around great new application for your iPhone.

TwitterFon
TwitterFon is a simple, clean, easy to use and super-fast Twitter client for your iPhone and iPod Touch.

iTweet 2
iTweet 2 has built-in auto-refresh, search and hash tags. You can view user bios and locations and also view conversations with the “in reply to” links.

GPS Twit
Run GPS Twit on your phone to make it easy for your friends to find you.

iTwtr
An open-source Twitter client for your iPhone.

WordPress Twitter Plug-Ins

Twitter for WordPress
Twitter for WordPress displays yours latest tweets in your WordPress blog.

Twitter Tools
This plug-in integrates your WordPress blog and Twitter account. Pull your tweets into your blog, and create new tweets from blog posts from within WordPress.

Twitpress
Twitpress is a WordPress plug-in that submits a user-definable tweet to your Twitter account, notifying Twitter followers or friends that you have posted a new blog entry.

SimpleTwitter
SimpleTwitter allows you to add Twitter messages to WordPress templates (and not just in the sidebar).

Tweet This
A plug-in that adds a Twitter link to every post and page on your WordPress website, so that visitors can share your blog entries through their Twitter accounts. It also shortens URLs automatically.

TweetBacks
This plug-in imports any tweets that discuss your blog or post. The tweets appear as comments.

TwitterCounter
Install TwitterCounter on your blog to display the number of followers you have on Twitter.

MyTwitter
MyTwitter allows you to display your Tweets on your WordPress website and update your status on the MyTwitter settings page.

TweetRoll
With the TweetRoll widget, you can display the number of your followers and friends.

Twitt-Twoo
Twitt-Twoo is a simple little plug-in that allows you to update your Twitter status right from your blog’s sidebar.

Adobe Air Twitter Apps

Toro for Twitter 
Designed to be simple, Toro uses an experimental Twitter client library to remove the Twitter API limit.

twhirl
Most of the features available on the Twitter website are accessible through twhirl, with usability enhancements.

Tweetr
Tweetr is a Twitter client that allows you to send and receive Twitter messages, but with some added cool features: support for taking photos with your webcam and sending files (up to 10 MB).

TweetDeck
TweetDeck aims to improve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking the abundance of Twitter feeds and breaking it down into more manageable bite-sized pieces.

DestroyTwitter
DestroyTwitter is a series of canvases that constantly update to keep tweets current and up to date using notifications that appear as soon as a new tweet is posted.

TwitterLocal
TwitterLocal is an Adobe AIR-based app that allows you to filter tweets by location.

Spaz
Spaz is a well-designed and well-developed Twitter client.

Snitter
Short for “Snooks’ Twitter,” Snitter is a cross-platform desktop Twitter client.

Twitch
Some features of Twitch are TwitPic integration, URL shortening, the ability to combine friends and replies, reply-highlighting hash-tag support and more.

Firefox Twitter Extensions

TwitBin
TwitBin is a Firefox extension that allows you to keep up with all of your Twitter conversations directly from your browser’s sidebar. Send and receive messages, share links and more.

Power Twitter
Power Twitter adds a multitude of features to the Twitter website interface.

TwitterFox
This extension adds a tiny icon to the status bar that notifies you when your friends have updated their Twitter status. It also has a small text input field to allow you to update your own status.

Twitzer
This Firefox extension lets you post tweets longer than 140 characters on Twitter.

TwitterBar
TwitterBar allows you to post to Twitter from the Firefox address bar.

Twitter Search
This plug-in gives you quick access to the real-time Twitter search engine.

Hoopla!
An essential Twitter plug-in for the Firefox quick search feature.

TwitterEyes
TwitterEyes keeps track of your character count as you compose tweets and replaces characters if you need extra room.

Finally, Worth A Look

Is Twitter Down?
Is Twitter down just for me or for everyone? This great app gives you a simple answer: yes or no.

twistori
An interesting Twitter experiment: click on a keyword on the left, and see what tweets are currently being published that contain that word.

Twittervision
A real-time geographic visualization of tweets. Amazing.

twittearth
Similar to Twittervision (above) but with a sleeker interface.

In the world of mobile devices, 2008 was the year of the application. Apple’s iTunes and AppStore integration into its popular iPhone made the already popular device much more dynamic, and as a result, much more useful. Never before had it been so easy to purchase and add applications to a mobile device – it’s an innovation that’s quickly become the model for mobile platforms and application distribution.

But its also easy to remove applications – for me personally I’ll bet for every app that’s on my iPhone there’s at least four apps that I’ve installed and removed. Every app and button on my phone has earned it’s place in my mobile life – so I thought it might be useful for me to show you my current iPhone setup, and describe the apps I use.

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The Main Screen

This is the screen where I keep all my apps that I access everyday, sometimes multiple times. I haven’t changed that many of the shortcuts that come installed on the main screen – most of the out-of-the-box apps are wonderful. In the near future I’ll probably replace the Notes app with a better notes applications (looking into Evernote right now). Other than the pre-installed apps, (Calendar, Mail, Maps, etc…), I’ve replaced Apple’s Weather app with The Weather Channel’s app, and I’ve added the Facebook app. You’ll also notice bookmarks for meebo and Hahlo 3.

The Weather Channel

While the original Weather app that comes with the iPhone is pretty, this app is far more useful. Not only does it give you the current weather, but it shows you what temperature it “feels like” outside based on humidity and wind (among other things). The feature alone is very useful when deciding what to wear outside or how to dress your kids for the bus stop. Severe weather warnings and watches, radar screens, even video forecasts – anything you can think of that’s weather related is probably in this app. Here are some screen caps:

This is the main screen for The Weather Channel (TWC) app. You can see the “feels like” temperature and the current conditions.

36 hour weather predictions. This screen offers predictions of the weather in 12 hour increments. Very useful when planning a family outing or a picnic.

Weather map with radar and precipitation amounts. Who needs TV weather forecasts with functionality like this?

And all this functionality is locative – when you’re traveling, just click the location icon and get the local forecast wherever you are…

Meebo

The Meebo chat site is one of the best mobile chat applications out there… but I would change this bookmark to an app if I could find an app that did a better job of my remembering mobile chats or notifiying while I’m away.

Meebo and MSN are best friends.

Not the prettiest chat client, but it gets the job done

Simply sign on with a supported account (MSN, Yahoo, AOL, Facebook, Jabber, etc) and you’re ready to go!

Hahlo 3

A great Twitter client and another bookmark. Supports twitter messaging and most twitter services – try it, you’ll like it.

A pretty Twitter that’s more usable.

Menu goodness includes search functionality. And locative search… many sites could learn a thing about usablilty from Hahlo.

Facebook

Since the first iPhone version of the Facebook app, things have really improved and now almost every Facebook interaction you want is available at your fingertips. I’d love to see extended profiles supported, but won’t hold my breath until I see Flash more widely used on the iPhone platform.

The ubiquitous Facebook newsfeed – right at your fingertips complete with comments and photos.

Facebook profiles with the wall, info, and photo galleries. Now you can creep while you’re on the bus!

Now that’s just funny!.. Hmm I wonder how my location got set to Bowie MD.. I guess that’s what you get when you have people who are geeks & love to stalk you enough that they finally crack your Twitter Password.

This made me smile though, & I kind of enjoy the whole stalking thing. I guess I just enjoy the adrenaline rush. I enjoy that I feel like I’m being watched.. Hahaha! I know but that’s just me, and who I am.

I’m my own kind of normal you could say.

Thanks! Bowie is awfully nice this time of morning..

One of my twitter moms, techmama, was asking about favorite iPhone apps – the perfect question for a Monday morning blog post. Since I feel that an app really has to be stellar for to me to pay money for it, most of the apps listed below are free unless otherwise noted. Enjoy!

• Stitchminder – For any craft in which you need to count stitches. Customizable column names, like “increase row” or “pattern row”.
• Sunrise – $.99. Spice starts knocking off to sleep right after sunset, so it’s handy to know exactly what time that is, so I can start her evening feed/bath/sleep routine.
• WordPress – Blog from your iPhone. Pretty slick overall, but obviously not perfect if I’m still not blogging from it frequently.
• Things – $9.99. The ultimate to-do list. Really, I love this one, as it has a Mac desktop app that will soon sync with the iPhone version. Right now, it’s easier to just use the iPhone version for everything.
• eReader – Awesome e-book reader. One click download from books purchased on ereader.com or fictionwise.com. No sync needed! Setting white text on a black background is perfect for nighttime reading in bed. (Tip: Try it with one of their free books, like The Age of Innocence.)
• NYTimes – Full NY Times articles. What’s neat is that you can organize your preferred sections, like “Politics” or “Photos” in the bottom bar.
• Twitterific – Twitter client. Not as full-featured or fast as Hahlo, but Hahlo can’t do pics.
• Weatherbug – Extreme weather details. Insanely better than the useless default Weather app. Like radar/satellite views and weathercams.
• Evernote – Note-taking program that syncs with website and desktop app. Can be a bit clunky. Neatest trick is being able to take pics that sync to both places automagically, which is useful for blogging later.
• NetNewsWire – News reader that syncs with NetNewsWire (OS X) and FeedDemon (Windows) through Newsgator Online so you never read the same thing twice.
• eBay Mobile – Track your auctions, whether you’re buying or selling.
• Pandora Radio – Incredibly sharp choose-your-own Internet radio.

Continuando con la entrada del otro día, hoy os vuelvo a hablar de Twitter, pero esta vez en el iPhone, porque aunque no lo parezca, es cuando estamos fuera de casa cuando más cosas twitteables nos ocurren, y más ganas nos dan de mandar alguna foto, en plan rápido. Es en este caso cuando la conexión de datos de flamante iPhone 3G hace su aparición… Pero como sucede en el Mac, tenemos un montón de alternativas donde elegir.

Como siempre, la más sencilla es mobile Twitter, recibimos nuestros tweets y podemos enviarlos, pero de la misma forma que sucedía con la web normal, hay que hacer el refresco manual, no puedes adjuntar imágenes directamente y por supuesto no tiene geolocalización. Para ahorrar unos megas del plan de datos y como alternativa rápida no está mal, aunque yo no lo uso…

Si seguimos por la línea de los clientes web, no puedo dejar de decir que tenemos Hahlo, que al fin y al cabo es el cliente que uso en el mac, como sudece para el mac, tiene muchas cosas, y está además pensado para el iPhone, por lo que su visualización es comodísima en él, eso sí, de la misma manera que en mobile twitter se echa de menos la pisibilidad de subir las fotos e incluso geolocalizarnos, así que como cliente de cabecera y cuando estoy conectado vía WiFi (por aquello de mantener el consumo y por la velocidad) a mi me sirve, aunque no sea mi cliente principal.

En cuanto a clientes web no uso ninguno más, ahora pasamos a los clientes nativos, actualmente son tres los que tengo metidos, y no sabría decidir cual de ellos es mejor, cada uno tiene sus cosas, que te son útiles en un momento dado. Para empezar hablemos del clásico, Twitterrific, por supuesto en su versión gratuita, cuyo único inconveniente es que cada 50 tweets te coloca uno de anuncio, en principio no molesta mucho, la verdad. Lo más destacable es que te permite subir tus fotos a Twitpic, tanto si tomas la foto directamente desde el programa o si ya la habías sacado antes, y automáticamente te introduce en el tweet la dirección de la misma. Entre las cosas buenas de este cliente, creo destacar que la interfaz funciona bastante bien, y la posibilidad de ver los tweets de la persona a la que va la replie, abriendo la página en su navegador integrado, te actualiza el perfil de Twitter con tu ubicación actual. Y por último algo que puede gustarte, o puedes odiarlo… cada vez que recibes nuevos tweets, con refresco manual, eso sí, suena el grandioso pajarillo, tan característico de Twitterrific a mi me gusta. Ah, por cierto, es un gran come megas, por eso no es recomendable usarlo fuera de WiFi, yo este lo suelo usar para subir fotos.

Otro de los clientes nativos, y podemos decir tradicional, pues tenía versión en la época del Installer, es Twinkle, este sí que podemos decir que es un cliente “integral”, pues tiene todo, geolocalización y subida de fotos, además tiene una función curiosa, por así decirlo, tu te registras en la web del fabricante y lo que te crea es un perfil en un Twitter alternativo, si podemos llamarlo así, simplemente funciona entre los usuarios de Twinkle, y mediante la localización te detecta los tweets en diferentes intervalos de distancia, está bastante bien, como añadido a twitter, pero claro, como siempre, los españoles usaremos esta función para intentar ligar, no falla En cuanto a la subida de fotos, además de dejarte hacerlo desde la camara o subir una que ya tengas, se suben a los servidores de Tapulous (la empresa desarrolladora), pero no tienes manera de recuperarlos una vez pierdes el tweet, cosa que no sucedía con Twitpic, pues cuando quieras puedes volver a ver tus fotos… En fin, no está nada mal, también lo uso de vez en cuando, sobre todo cuando quiero que la gente sepa donde estoy Como es de esperar el consumo de datos es tirando a alto, además al localizar también se cepilla un extra de batería, y todo hay que decirlo, a veces de le va la pinza y te lleva a Rusia o cualquier sitio…

Y ya por último, el que más he tardado en descubrir, TwitterFon, un cliente de los más sencillos y claros, donde lo que prima es el ahorro en el consumo de datos, para ello no descarga cada vez todos los tweets y sus avatars, y tiene bien diferenciadas las secciones de línea del tiempo, replies y mensajes directos, este es el que suelo usar cada vez que salgo de casa, y no quiero subir fotos, eso sí, que no lo soporta. Otra ventaja, es que si sales del programa, por lo que sea, y tienes un tweet medio escrito, te sigue almacenando este hasta que vuelvas a abrirlo, parece una tontería, pero cuantas veces nos habremos quedado sin cobertura en medio de un tweet y hemos tenido que reescribirlo de nuevo, al final ya no queda tan ingenioso como el que se te borró…

Y con esto creo que acabo el repaso a los programas de twitter para el iPhone, de momento estos son los que yo uso y he probado, ya sabéis, si usáis algún otro no dudéis en decirlo en los comentarios

Mientras espero a que empiece la keynote de hoy y hagamos el seguimiento a ver que pasa, voy a escribir una entrada que tenía pendiente, esta vez sobre Twitter, pretendo hacer dos partes, Twitter en el Mac y Twitter en el iPhone, pero antes de nada habrá que ver que es esto de Twitter… Nunca he sabido explicarlo del todo bien, pero como siempre, la WikiPedia viene al rescate. Básicamente es una red social, donde expresas tus ideas, tus chorradas, tus sentimientos, lo que haces… se me ocurre el simil de que es como gritar en un bar, donde a veces caen en saco roto tus palabras pero otras inicias conversaciones o discusiones. Un serivicio 2.0 muy entretenido e interesante, pero como os he dicho para ver esas definiciones, acudid al artículo de la WikiPedia.

Pero de lo que quiero hablar en este post es de como seguir dicho servicio, en nuestro mac, en principio, y como opción predeterminada, podemos hacerlo vía web, desde la propia página de Twitter. Como opción es la más fiable, porque si los servidores no están caídos es difícil que pierdas un tweet. Pero resulta bastante incómodo a la hora de recibir los nuevos tweets y demás, pues el refresco es manual.

Todo maquero, cuando usa Twitter por primera vez, usa Twitterrific, no me lo podéis negar, por lo menos conozco a otro par de personas que se estrenaron con él. En principio es cómodo, no molesta en el escritorio… pero tiene un inconveniente, falla mucho y en ocasiones satura el límite de peticiones al servidor de twitter, a pesar de tener el refresco casa 3 o 5 minutos puedes no recibir un tweet hasta pasada media hora… Es buena opción pero no la mejor, os dejo una captura de la página oficial:

Sin embargo a través del iPhone descubrí una aplicación web que es una maravilla para hacer los seguimientos, Hahlo, interfaz cuidada, clara, con detalles de agradecer, como que pulsando un botón te muestre qué es lo que se está contestando, y sobre todo, algo que descubrí hace poco, tiene refresco automático, pero no del tipo busca tweets cada 5 minutos, no, si no en plan push, cada vez que recibes un tweet se actualiza. Pero si estaba hablando de los clientes para Mac, que hago hablando de una WebApp??? pues bien, existe un programa, llamado Fluid que lo que hace es convertir una pagína web en una especie de aplicación, así a grosso modo, además está basado en WebKit, como Safari Uniendo Fluid y Hahlo, gracias a este screencast de SopMacSL, donde podemos ver como se hace, bastante sencillo, tenemos el que para mi es el mejor cliente de twitter de escritorio…

A lo que dice SopMac sólo puedo añadir un par de cosas, una que se puede poner un sonido de notificación en Growl, para que cada vez que recibimos un tweet nos demos cuenta de ello… y por otro lado la explicación a por qué no nos funcionaba a muchos el autorefresco, es cuestión de settings, si activamos la opción de mostrar los mensajes directos en línea se acaba el autorefresco, pasa lo mismo si activamos la opción de recibir las replies; así que la solución pasa por desactivar ambos. Los efectos secundarios, en cuanto a los mensajes sí que se hacen notar, pues no nos enteraremos de haber recibido el mensaje directo, sólo si tenemos activada la opción de recibir un mail con los mensajes directos, eso ya lo tenéis que valorar vosotros, yo con google notifier no necesito que me avise de los directos; y en cuanto a las replies, tampoco es problema, porque te siguen llegando al timeline, lo único que no se te acumulan, pero para eso está la pestaña replies Y para conseguir el icono para la barra de menús, gracias a un comment en Sopmac, lo podéis descargar aquí.

Pues poco más puedo decir, además de que la keynote de hoy ha sido un poco sosa, en fin, esperaré a verla en vídeo, como siempre. Si os queda alguna duda o me falta algo, ya sabéis, comentarios

If you aren’t already using it Twitter is a great way to stay connected with people from all around the Internet. Whether it’s people you know from the “real world” or people you have met online and like to stay in contact with, Twitter offers and excellent (although sometimes troubled) way of socializing.

You can use Twitter from your cellphone via SMS to “tweet” and to receive notifications. I personally prefer using online apps such as Hahlo, from my iPod Touch, but when I’m not in an area with wifi I need to rely on my cellphone.

Here is a handy list of commands that can be used from you mobile device to control what you receive from Twitter. [via http://jasontheodor.com/]

Great way to set up a twitter app through your menu bar.

Where are the Twitter clients for those that don’t to download yet another application? What if you don’t want to worry about software updates, let alone pay to tweet? There’s hope for you yet, and it goes by the name Hahlo.

Optimized for your desktop but most importantly, the mobile web, Hahlo gives you a simple and visually engaging way to interact with your Twitter followers.  Hahlo integrates popular twitters features such as twitter search, trends, finding tweeters near you and more.  All packaged in an awesome mobile interface for the iPhone and even the Blackberry I found. This is one mobile web client you should check out.

For the privacy nuts, oAuth  login is supported, meaning you don’t have to hand over your credentials.

I have to admit, I was definitely a late bloomer when it came to mass, social network usage. I don’t need to explain why that was a mistake on my part. One thing i feel I do need to share is all of the native and web applications I missed out on my iPhone.. until now, of course.

Twitter- everyone told me that one i started i would become addicted… They were dumb.. and I am addicted, and if you do not know what Twitter is…. Well if you have to ask, you don’t wanna know. As far as Twit is concerned, the iPhone has been the BEST mobile solution for being on Twitter 100% of the Day.

-Obviously there is the mobile site (direct mobile Safari to http://twitter.com), and this works fine but there are much more efficient, ways to tweet.

-The best web app, to use twitter on the iPhone, is Hahlo (direct mobile Safari to http://hahlo.com). The great interface, iPhone web application works GREAT. The only thing is, I would say it works about 80% of the time, but there is absolutely no install needed for this.

-One of the two native applications I will mention (which you can download via Installer App) is Twinkle. Twinkle was the first Twitter application i downloaded for my iPhone, and it is awesome. within 1 tweet you will be able to geotag your location, send a picture, and update. It has a great interface with avatars and all, alowing you to do everything you can on the Twitter site. In my eyes the only flaw with this application is it is not all that reliable. Although very intuitive with great UI, 50% percent of the time that i open it, i get that message “we are having some technical difficulties”. I always want to blame it on Twitter, but when i check, Twitter is not down and it is just the poor API app. Great idea, and it is worth a try.

-The last application which I will stand by and say is the absolute best is Mobile Twitter. I actually stumbled upon in it in the list of Installer Apps and decided to try it out. I’m so glad i did. Its fast, has photo support, using camera or photos in your photo album, and lets you do EVERYTHING you need to Twitter-wise, straight on your iPhone. Works amazing with EDGE or Wi-Fi. Not to mention, it has a great UI.

For all other social network sites i would just use the direct site web applications. I have tested them all and they do the job, so for any of the following just go to the URL on mobile Safari (these will also make awesome home screen icons for you if you bookmark):

-Twitter

-Pownce

-SocialThing!

-BrightKite

-Myspace and Facebook (bleh)

-Jake