Twitterrific

Twitterrific 5 updated with badge counts, Favstar support, faster load times, and more

By Allyson Kazmucha, Monday, Apr 22, 2013 a 5:23 pm

Twitterrific 5 has just been updated to include badge icon counts, support for Favstar, faster loading times, and more. The last update to Twitterrific brought with it support for push notifications and this update rounds out that feature along with many other improvements.

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Twitterrific 5 updated with tweet muffling, iCloud sync, and more

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Feb 20, 2013 a 8:19 pm

Twitterrific, the original and yet most modern Twitter app on iOS, has updated to version 5.1 and with it comes a bevy of new features. You get muffling of #hashtags and domains, and you can tap on a muffled tweet to peek at it. Settings are now synced across your devices thanks to iCloud integration, and support has been added for img.ly, mobypicture, and twitpic. If you're on iOS 6, you also get Avenir as a font choice. There are even more improvements and enhancements as well.

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Thou shalt have no brand before Twitter

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Feb 20, 2013 a 10:15 am

Tweetbot just updated to support Twitter's 1.1 API, and to partially support Twitter's new interface display guidelines. Come March 5, the old version of the app will stop working, and if you want to keep accessing Twitter, you'll have to do it with the new app, with it's new, more standardized look. Tweetbot won't be alone. Right now, every Twitter app designer is likely wrestling with the same problem -- how to conform to Twitter's new guidelines without losing what makes their app distinct, how to compromise without sacrificing what makes them special.

Twitterrific 5.0.2 brings new image and link handling, retweet gesture, simple reading, and more!

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Jan 21, 2013 a 3:49 pm

Judge not the Twitterrific 5.0.2 update by its point size. More than just the usual bug fixes and performance tweaks lie within. The Iconfactory has added inline image previews that, when tapped upon, launch a new, chrome-less image viewer that still lets you pinch to zoom and long press to get additional options. You also get the new full screen browser and simple reading modes, including Instapaper and Readability, and a new gesture to re-tweet with comment -- just tap and hold the re-tweet button.

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Twitterrific 5 offers an incredibly retro-geeky easter egg

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Jan 20, 2013 a 12:44 pm

Quick, fire up Twitterrific 5 on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, and then follow these directions from @twitterrific:

Debug 5: Craig Hockenberry, Sean Heber, and Twitterrific

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Jan 5, 2013 a 11:54 am

Guy and Rene talk to the Iconfactory's Craig Hockenberry and Sean Heber about Twitterrific 5, the early days of the iPhone, Chameleon, beefs with nibs, underscores, colons, and ternary operators, App Store realities, and the importance of blame avoidance optimization.

Hall of fame: Craig Hockenberry, Gedeon Maheux, and Twitteriffic

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Jan 2, 2013 a 7:23 pm

Twitterrific was the first native social networking client on the iPhone. Created by Craig Hockenberry and Gedeon Maheux of the Iconfactory, it began as the Mobile Twitterrific project in August of 2007, only two short months after the original iPhone shipped, and well before Apple announced even the plan for an official SDK. Development started "in the open", with a proof-of-concept made available on Google Project Hosting.

Iterate 35: Gedeon Maheux, David Lanham and Twitterrific 5

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Dec 6, 2012 a 1:55 am

Marc, Seth, and Rene talk to Gedeon Maheux and David Lanham of the Iconfactory about Twitterrific 5, their completely re-designed Twitter app, and about iTunes 11, Apple's completely re-designed… everything app. This is Iterate.

Twitterrific 5 brings breathtaking new design, vicious new speed to Twitter for iPhone and iPad

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Dec 5, 2012 a 11:04 pm

Twitterrific is the Star Trek of iOS. Not only is it the original, but more than any other app, it has proven its ability to re-invent and re-invigorate itself, over and over again, from one generation to the next. From the Jailbreak days before the App Store to now, post Twitter API crackdowns, post-iPhone 5 and iPad mini, the Iconfactory, and with the team of Sean Heber, David Lanham, Craig Hockenberry, Gedeon Maheux, Tyler Anderson, and Cheryl Culling have continually moved Twitterrific forward while never losing what made it great to begin with. Old and yet new, simple and yet deep, Twitterrific 5 is startlingly beautiful and viciously fast, and represents nothing more or less than a re-imagining of the app and the genre.

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On the future of Twitter: Developer reactions

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Aug 17, 2012 a 9:09 pm

I've already had my rant, as have John Gruber, Matthew Panzarino, Lex Friedman, M.G. Siegler, Jerry Hildenbrand, Benjamin Brooks, Shawn Blanc, and many others across the blogsphere. Which is good, because tech bloggers, especially Apple and mobile tech bloggers, tend to be monster Twitter users (and not the automated social media marketing types -- actual heavy-duty users the type of which helped spin up the service to begin with.) Yet we, like any user, will be challenged only so far as the apps we use to engage Twitter are challenged, and those apps are made by developers, and those developers are at the front lines.

So what are the Twitter developers saying? Here are some excerpts and links back, and I'll add more as I find them.