Today the developer of the Tweetie iPhone application published a blogpost about his new project: Tweetie 2.0. Tweetie is one of the most popular paid iPhone twitter applications, mainly because Tweetie had a clean, no-nonsense interface.
The developer says about how his life changed after bringing the first version of Tweetie to the AppStore
A few people bought it. Then a few more bought it. Then I realized this App Store thing was actually pretty popular, and
($2.99 - 30%) x enough people = a living. So I dropped everything and devoted every working minute since to Tweetie.
In the last year the developer not only developed the Tweetie application for iPhone, but also the popular version for Mac OSX. This Mac OSX version is based on a twitter “core” called Bigbird.
Now, a few months after the release of Tweetie for Mac OSX, the developer brings this core to the iPhone with Tweetie 2.0
Tweetie 1 set a new standard for Twitter clients and iPhone apps in general. It proved that you didn’t have to sacrifice intuitiveness for functionality. Today we have iPhone OS 3.0, 3GS, and new Twitter APIs. Tweetie 2 is built from the ground up to take advantage of these fantastic new technologies.
Tweetie 2 will contain a lot more functionality than verison 1.
- Draft manager
- Link Twitter users to iPhone contacts
- Threaded conversations
- Support the new geotagging metadata coming soon from Twitter.
- Multiple attachments manager
- Full Landscape Support
Personally I think the best new feature will be the off-line mode.
Speaking of offline reading, there is also a fantastic offline mode. You can favorite, follow, block, add to Instapaper and more all while offline. Next time you connect, all of those actions will be synced back up.
The new version will not be an upgrade to the 1.x version of Tweetie but will be an application that needs a new purchase at the price of $2,99. Personally I think it sounds very well and worth, but there really should be an option if you’ve just purchased Tweetie 1 a week ago.
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