Tweetie 2.1 Update Coming, Offering New Retweet, Geolocation Features
Owners of Tweetie 2 (App Store link), the popular Twitter app, should be on the look out for version 2.1 offering some welcome new features and a host of bug fixes.
Twitter will be allowing a new retweet styling. If a person RT (retweets), you’ll see the actual tweet with a notification that it’s from someone your following. Twittie 2.1 will accent these with a highlighted arrow in the upper right hand corner. If you click on the tweet, you’ll see the original tweet from the original source. Makes perfect sense.
In addition to retweets, Tweetie 2.1 will support Twitter’s geolocation support. If accounts have this enabled, Tweetie 2.1 will display a push pin. If you click on the tweet, you’ll see a Google Maps preview. You can select the map and load the location within Google Maps.
The complete list of features included in Tweetie 2.1:
- Geotag work
- New retweeting
- Post ‘message’ parameter through to custom Image endpoints
- Switch to WhatTheTrend
- Reorganized Search/More UI
- Accessibility work
- Image compression options
- Vidly, Mobypicture, and Posterous as video options
- New protocol handler to make it easier to install custom URL shorteners
- Fix TextExpander goofups
- Fix Japanese double-posting bug
- Fix email conversation
- Fix handling of iTunes links
- Google Mobilizer option (and custom Mobilizer)
- Fix rare hang when viewing reply chains
- Fix calling from address book page
- Fix cases where saving state doesn’t complete
- Disable browser rotation option
- Overlapr
- Report Spam
- Fix rare crash translating tweets
- Disable “mark as read” button when no unread – history=1 for j.mp
- Fix upsidedown image viewer and browser
- Disable Pinstripes option
- Fix tweetie:///post? style protocol handler
- Reorder Settings
- Link to Manual
Twitter just turned on “Lists” this week. The features is planned for Tweetie 2.2. Loren Brichter, developer and owner of Atebits, hopes to have Tweetie 2.1 in final beta testing later this week. App Store approval process withstanding, you could see Tweetie 2.1 very shortly.
[via Tech Crunch]
