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TweetFire - new Twitter client for iPhone

56 points by jazzychad 15y ago

jonursenbach 15y ago
Looks a lot like the BlogFire app that the Notifo guys put out.
- jazzychad 15y ago
  That's because it is :)
  - jonursenbach 15y ago
    Yeah just realized that you're a Notifo dude, ha.
- zbruhnke 15y ago
  jazzychad = Notifo guy :)
chc 15y ago
I'm curious: Did you guys start this before Twitter declared that they didn't want to see more third-party clients, or did you guys just roll the dice and hope they were feeling kind?
- jazzychad 15y ago
  I rolled the dice a bit. I started this after that announcement came down, but I built the interface to be pretty non-standard for a Twitter client. I had built all sorts of other twitter apps before, but never a full blown client. I just had to get it out of my system.
- spatulon 15y ago
  It's not a matter of hoping Twitter are feeling kind because they haven't taken any technical measures -- at least not yet -- to stop new third-party clients being developed. They own and control what I assume to be the most popular clients on every major platform (iOS, Android WinPhone, Mac, and, now that they own Tweetdeck, Windows). The whole point of the "don't make any new clients" announcement was to communicate their desire to control the user experience (i.e. the clients) for the majority of Twitter users, so I'd be surprised if they felt the need to discourage third-party developers further.
  - chc 15y ago
    They can't stop people developing them, but they can revoke the access token and make them pretty much useless.
thom 15y ago
So very sick of SpringBoard clones within apps...
- jazzychad 15y ago
  that's ok, I was so very sick of the 4/5-button tab bar at the bottom of every twitter client.
  - bignoggins 15y ago
    but the tab bar is within apple's design guidelines. it also makes navigation a whole lot easier because you don't have to go back to the springboard.
    - jazzychad 15y ago
      true, however guidelines are just that. and sometimes rules are meant to be broken.
      - ethank 15y ago
        To this point, there is no better party at breaking the HIG than Apple. Case in point: Garageband for iPad. And likely cases in point: every app they are releasing this fall, which were all made post-Garage Band for iPad.
      - bignoggins 15y ago
        yes but I'd argue apple is right when they say don't make springboard UIs (which they did @ WWDC). Think about it. If a user opens up a program in windows, and he get another UI that looks like windows, he would be very confused.
        lyime 15y ago
        With Lion, Apple broke their own OSX UI guidelines. Sometimes to innovate you have to break the rules.
eberfreitas 15y ago
I couldn't find the time someone sent a tweet. That is pretty important to me. The home screen is a very good idea. I only with that my picture wasn't among the other icons. It doesn't seem to fit, but it's a good idea anyway.
- jazzychad 15y ago
  Thanks! Where were you looking that you couldn't find a tweet timestamp? I'm pretty obsessed with timestamps myself so I made sure to put them everywhere they could go. If you add more items to the homescreen (especially other users), your icon won't look so out of place. Plus, that is also where you can tweak the settings for your own account. In testing, people wanted to double and triple verify that their tweets were actually posted, and having a shortcut to their own timeline fixed that need (among others).

56 points by jazzychad 15y ago

jonursenbach 15y ago

Looks a lot like the BlogFire app that the Notifo guys put out.

jazzychad 15y ago
That's because it is :)
- jonursenbach 15y ago
  Yeah just realized that you're a Notifo dude, ha.
zbruhnke 15y ago
jazzychad = Notifo guy :)

chc 15y ago

I'm curious: Did you guys start this before Twitter declared that they didn't want to see more third-party clients, or did you guys just roll the dice and hope they were feeling kind?

jazzychad 15y ago
I rolled the dice a bit. I started this after that announcement came down, but I built the interface to be pretty non-standard for a Twitter client. I had built all sorts of other twitter apps before, but never a full blown client. I just had to get it out of my system.
spatulon 15y ago
It's not a matter of hoping Twitter are feeling kind because they haven't taken any technical measures -- at least not yet -- to stop new third-party clients being developed. They own and control what I assume to be the most popular clients on every major platform (iOS, Android WinPhone, Mac, and, now that they own Tweetdeck, Windows). The whole point of the "don't make any new clients" announcement was to communicate their desire to control the user experience (i.e. the clients) for the majority of Twitter users, so I'd be surprised if they felt the need to discourage third-party developers further.
- chc 15y ago
  They can't stop people developing them, but they can revoke the access token and make them pretty much useless.

thom 15y ago

So very sick of SpringBoard clones within apps...

jazzychad 15y ago
that's ok, I was so very sick of the 4/5-button tab bar at the bottom of every twitter client.
- bignoggins 15y ago
  but the tab bar is within apple's design guidelines. it also makes navigation a whole lot easier because you don't have to go back to the springboard.
  - jazzychad 15y ago
    true, however guidelines are just that. and sometimes rules are meant to be broken.
    - ethank 15y ago
      To this point, there is no better party at breaking the HIG than Apple. Case in point: Garageband for iPad. And likely cases in point: every app they are releasing this fall, which were all made post-Garage Band for iPad.
    - bignoggins 15y ago
      yes but I'd argue apple is right when they say don't make springboard UIs (which they did @ WWDC). Think about it. If a user opens up a program in windows, and he get another UI that looks like windows, he would be very confused.
      - lyime 15y ago
        With Lion, Apple broke their own OSX UI guidelines. Sometimes to innovate you have to break the rules.

eberfreitas 15y ago

I couldn't find the time someone sent a tweet. That is pretty important to me. The home screen is a very good idea. I only with that my picture wasn't among the other icons. It doesn't seem to fit, but it's a good idea anyway.

jazzychad 15y ago
Thanks! Where were you looking that you couldn't find a tweet timestamp? I'm pretty obsessed with timestamps myself so I made sure to put them everywhere they could go. If you add more items to the homescreen (especially other users), your icon won't look so out of place. Plus, that is also where you can tweak the settings for your own account. In testing, people wanted to double and triple verify that their tweets were actually posted, and having a shortcut to their own timeline fixed that need (among others).