Twittion

Twittion for a better Twitter Communication experience.
  • Intro
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  • FAQ

Twittion (twitter + communication = twittion) is a Twitter client that makes twitter communication easier and faster by providing a concise and logical user interface layout. It implements many of the popular Twitter features and includes the ability to create drafts tweets for continued editing and sending at a later time. It simply works allowing you worry about the tweets that you write.

A quick glance of Twittions features:

  • Cached tweets for faster loading and off-line reading.
  • Badge number display for the number of new tweets received after a refresh.
  • Friends list browsing.
  • Reply or send a direct message from the timeline.
  • Embedded web view
  • List browsing (new)
  • Retweet indicator in the main timeline (new)
  • OAuth authentication (new)

If you have any problems or suggestions for future versions please do not hesitate to contact via the support email address.

 

9 March 2010: A minor update to Twittion has been submitted to the Apple iTunes Store. This corrects an issue of the @mentions not updating, and "in reply" improperly displaying on the direct message screen.

 

8 January 2010: A new version of Twittion has been submitted to the Apple iTunes Store for approval. Twittion 2 brings list viewing; Yfrog support; Tweetphoto support; timeline notification of a retweet message; and over a dozen bug fixes.

 

A summary and description of some of the features found in Twittion:

  • Friends Timeline
    The ability to quickly view and scroll through your Friends Tweets that you are following
  • Responding to a tweet intelligently
    The ability to intelligently respond to a tweet either as a private message or public reply.
  • Draft Message
    All of your tweets don't have to be spur of the moment rapid thoughts. You can save them and then go back to them later to edit your later before sending them.
  • Built-In Web Browser
    The built-in web browser allows the user to automatically browse links that are embedded within tweets.
  • Friend Detail
    Friend detail screen allows information for the friends that you are following to be displayed. Information about the number of followers, their biography statement and location.
  • User defined number of Tweets to download
    The user can determine the number of tweets that they would like to download during each refresh. This is useful if your on a slow connection and only want to download as little as one message at a time. When you move back to a faster connection you can increase the number of new tweets to download.
  • Local cache files
    There are local cache files that store allow you to read tweets, direct message and @mentions even though you may not have an active internet connection.
  • Twitpic support
    Built-in support for taking and sending a photo directly from Twittion to the popular Twitpic service.
  • Follow and UnFollow within Twittion
    Twittion allows users to be able to follow and unfollow users from within the application, with out having to log into Twitter through a web browser. There's no longer an excuse when someone asks you to add them to your Twitter followers.
 

Question: What is Twittion?
Answer: Twittion is a Twitter client that was written for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Question: Why another Twitter client?
Answer: The greater the number of Twitter clients the greater number of choices and variety that users can choose from to fit their needs.

Question: How to I find the start of new tweets?
Answer: Following an update you can press the "Jump" button to be automatically taken to the new tweets. This is done so that you do not lose the position that you are at when reading a tweet following a refresh.

Question: Do I have to fill in the number of tweets to download?
Answer:No. If you choose not to fill in the number of tweets to download you can simply leave that field blank and the system will automatically default to downloading 20 new tweets at a time.

Question: Why do give the option for the user to select the number of tweets to download?
Answer: This option is a feature which allows the Twittion to be used on connections that may not allow for extended download times. If you are using the Edge network we recommend that you set the "Tweets to download" at a lower value. If you are on a WiFi connection you may set the number to the maximum of 200.

Question: How do I reply to a tweet from the main timeline?
Answer: Simply make a single tap on the tweet that you would like to respond to. You will be presented with option of sending a private direct message to the author of the tweet or a public reply which others can view.

Question: How can I view a web link in a tweet?
Answer: If the tweet contains a web link, when you tap the tweet you will automatically be presented with the option of launching the internal web browser which allows you to take a quick look at the link.

Question: How do I refresh the timeline?
Answer: To refresh the timeline simply press the refresh button located at the top right of the screen.

Question: How do I find more information about a friend?
Answer: On the Friend screen simply make a single tap to view the Friend Detail screen.

Question: How do I send a message to a friend?
Answer: Select the Friends tab, Scroll to find the friend that you would like to send a message to and select the compose button on the top right corner of the screen. You will be presented with the option of sending a public or private message to the friend.

Question: How do I view my direct messages and @mentions?
Answer: Select the messages tab, the select "@Mentions" or "D.M." to view your messages.

Question: How do post a new tweet?
Answer: Select the Tweet tab.

Question: How do I save a tweet as a draft?
Answer: Select "Cancel" and then select "Save as Draft". Your tweet will be saved in the draft area for you to finish writing and then sending later.

Question: How do I find my draft tweets?
Answer: To bring up the draft messages that you were working on make a single tap in the text window. Then press the "Drafts" button.

Question: How do I delete a draft tweet?
Answer: On the Draft Tweets screen perform a single swipe to be presented with the option to delete a tweet.

Twittion 2 has been approved and is available in the App Store for download.
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