Stone Design ships Twittelator Pro 1.3 for iPhone/Touch

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Stone Design ships Twittelator Pro 1.3 for iPhone/Touch - Published on 09/12/08

 

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Stone Design and Big Stone Phone have just released new versions of Twittelator and Twittelator Pro, the full-feature native iPhone/Touch Twitter client. With many expert features including multiple accounts, Trending Topics, and Nearby Search for Tweeters, Twittelator Pro is the culmination of the expanding Twittelator customer base's wishes, desires and bug fixes. Version 1.3 fixes issues with Apple's iPhone/iPod Touch OS 2.1 which affect previous versions of Twittelator.

 

Albuquerque, NM - Stone Design today shipped a major update to Twittelator Pro, a feature packed native iPhone Twitter client. With many expert features including multiple accounts, Trending Topics, and Nearby Search for Tweeters, Twittelator Pro is the culmination of the expanding Twittelator customer base's wishes, desires and bug fixes. Version 1.3 fixes issues with Apple's iPhone/iPod Touch OS 2.1 which affect previous versions of Twittelator.

 

Stone Design's CEO and lead computer scientist Andrew Stone remarked "We have not been idle! In the last few weeks we received such positive response from mobile twitter users on what exactly would make it so they could use just Twittelator Pro and pitch their other twitter clients. We rose to the task, and are delighted to ship this version."

 

At just $4.99, Twittelator Pro is a great value with these features:

 

Interface:

* Four tweet themes to suit your mood: Robin, Canary, Martin & Raven

* Easy navigation from Groups to anywhere

 

Accounts:

* You can have as many accounts as you like

* Switch between accounts instantly

* Optionally set your current location

 

Writing Tweets:

* Start a Tweet from any screen

* Paste in links & text!

* Reply to any Tweet or Tweeter

* Private message any Tweeter

* Add a map of your current location

* Add a snapshot or library photo to your tweet

* Optionally use high resolution images

* Character count always updated

* Instant access to your friends for easy insertion

* Confirmation on tweet so you don't pre-tweet

* Turn on or off capitalizing and auto-correction (two annoying features for tech people!)

* Add "twit://" before any link in Safari to start a new Tweet with that link added to it!

* Safari bookmarklet to load current page as tweet

 

Reading A Tweet:

* Four color themes to choose from

* Large readable font size

* Copy tweet with tap and hold

* Tweet sizes to fit length of text

* See user's real name and screen name

* Linked TwitPic photos appear right in tweet

* Follow embedded web link right in Twittelator

* Investigate any referenced tweeter in a tweet

* Make any Tweet one of your favorites

* Tap any Tweet to add to Recents

* Copy tweet by tap and hold

* Reply to any tweet

* Delete tweet if it's yours

 

Reading Tweets:

* Select how many: 20, 50, 100, 150 or 200

* See just your replies

* See just your tweets

* Follow your friends

* See everyone's tweets

* See any Tweeter's tweets

* See any Tweeter's favorites

* See Featured Tweeters

* See the current Trending Topics

* Tap top toolbar to scroll to top

* Tap lower toolbar left of Tweet button to page down

* Refresh on demand

 

User Details:

* Tap any picture to bring up User Details

* Double tap tweet w/ ( -at -) name to see their details

* Start or Stop following any tweeter

* Option to enable notifications when you follow

* Add person to your bookmarks

* Visit their website right in Twittelator

* See their favorites

* Send message or private message

* See how many friends and followers they have

* See how many tweets they have made

* See last tweet and their description

* See their friends

* Drill down into their friends

 

Searching Tweets:

* Search instantly from any screen

* Search "Nearby" to find tweeters near you

* Simple search mode (just enter words)

* Advanced Search including:

* All, Every, Not, Any

* Reference, To, From, Hashtags

* Since and Until Dates

* Nearby your current location

* Links and Questions

* Positive/Negative Attitudes

* Searches remembered automatically & persistently

* Delete and reorder persistent searches

 

Bookmarks:

* Add any user to Bookmarks

* Instant retrieval of their latest tweets

 

Trending Topics:

* See tweets of latest hot topics in twittersphere

 

Recents:

* Tap a tweet to add to Recents this session

* Instant retrieval of their latest tweets

 

Emergencies:

* Instantly send emergency tweet with map of location

* Hide emergency button if that's not your style

* You get a Page Down button if you hide it

 

Log File:

* see how many server accesses left this hour

* read connection and failure log

 

Support:

* Big Stone Phone provides free support for Pro users

* We listen to your feature requests and bug reports!

 

Check our our 'retweet' blog where we repost useful tweets.

 

Twittelator Home: http://www.stone.com/Twittelator/

Twittelator What's New In Pro: http://tinyurl.com/twittelator-news

Download Twittelator Pro: http://tinyurl.com/twitpro

Big Stone Phone: http://www.stone.com/iPhone

Screenshots: http://www.stone.com/Twittelator/Twittelator_Screens.html

Twittelator Pro Icon: http://www.stone.com/Twittelator/images/TwittelatorPro.png

 

 

Stone Design is a New Mexico based software corporation founded in 1984 by Andrew Stone which has shipped over 20 titles for Mac OS X and its parent operating system, the NeXT in the last 20 years. Major applications include Create, a page layout and web authoring app, iMaginator for image processing and Videator for video effects and VJ'ing. This year, in conjunction with BigStonePhone, has added 3 iPhone applications to the collection: TalkingPics for field photography and audio recording, iGraffiti which lets you paint on photos and share them, and Twittelator. BigStonePhone is a collaboration between Stone, Jeff BIggus of Hyperjeff.net and artist and UI designer Ollie Wagner.

 

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CEO

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andrew ( -at -) stone.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

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