Coming Soon: App Store

Price: $2.99

atebits has announced lots of info about the soon to be released Tweetie 2. This will be a free upgrade for the Mac version but for the iPhone, you will need to buy it as a seprate app at $2.99. The original Tweetie is really nice but I’m kinda torn on the idea of making the app cost $2.99 again. As much as I use it, and as many upgrades that there are, I personally think it’s worth it. I have multiple Twitter accounts (in the double digits) and love all the current features. For light to normal users, I could see people being upset for having to pay all over again for the app. Wait until you see these screenshots and list of updates and then you might be willing to pay :) Also note, the developer has “dropped everything and devoted every working minute since to Tweetie.”

– Buy as new app for $2.99
– push notifications per user
– faster, slimmer, and much more powerful
– will be submitted to Apple this week and from there… well, you know the drill.
– built from the ground up
– takes advantage of iPhone OS 3.0, 3GS, and new Twitter APIs
– OS 3.0+ only
– video recording (of course you can video tweet)
– UISearchDisplayController so you live-filter your tweet stream, just like Mail
– not just caching tweets for offline reading, but remembering where you are in the app
– offline mode allows you to favorite, follow, block, add to Instapaper and more all while offline, syncs when reconnected (great for the iPod touch)
– drafts manager for tweets and DMs
– link up Twitter users to contacts in your iPhone Address Book
– Threaded conversations
– tab bar notifications
– “Nearby” revamped to take advantage of MapKit
– supports the new geotagging metadata coming soon from Twitter
– Saved searches now sync with Twitter.com and the upcoming Tweetie 2 for Mac
– interacts with Favstar.fm, Tweet Blocker, and Follow cost
– @people picker
– recent hashtags
– multiple attachments manager
– “peek” gesture when replying to a tweet
– full landscape support (configurable, of course)
– edit your Twitter profile
– custom API roots on a per-account basis
– vastly improved gesture shortcuts
– in-app rich-text email
– new-style retweet support
– refresh-all on launch
– TextExpander
– Read it Later integration (in addition to Instapaper)
– autocomplete recent searches
– autocomplete go-to-user
– improved avatar caching
– inline Twitlonger
– reply chain list view
– preview short urls
– tweet translation
– block+follow from multiple accounts at once

Read the full blog post from the developer.
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