Twinkle – New iPhone Twitter Client Uses Locate Me Features
apps April 13th, 2008
Twinkle is a shiny new native Twitter client for the iPhone, that adds location-aware features to your Twittering. It has a very nice and easy to use interface and works very well so far in my testing of it.
The Locate Me feature seems very cool, to combine Twitter with geo-location. It will be a lot more fun when more people are on Twinkle of course. The Locate Me feature can easily be toggled On and Off. If you choose to use it then you can use the ‘Near Me’ tab to see tweets from folks who are within X miles of your location. The default is a 50-mile distance, and you can choose to change this to 1, 2, 10, 25, 100, 1,000, or 252,000.
It is quite cool to see tweets from people in your same general area.
It’s got a nice, roomy update / posting screen. You can add a picture right at the posting screen – one tap on a camera icon launches the camera and once you snap a pic, it takes you right back to the posting screen with your pic as an attachment. This is a fun utility, but sadly the pics only show up within the Twinkle client (as a thumbnail which can be viewed full size with a tap on the thumbnail) – not on Twitter on the desktop.
The overall layout is nice and easy to use, and it has some helpful options. When you click on a individual, for example, you have the option to do an @ reply or direct message, or see their profile and posts. Very handy.
Its home button shows the little red numbers to indicate number of new tweets – while you are in the app – of course this would be even better if it worked when in the background as well.
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Locate Me очень клевая по сути, но работает плохенько. Когда я в офисе, в центре минска на якуба коласа, то определяет отлично с точностью до 50 метров. А когда дома на рокоссовского, то либо не определяет вообще, либо закидывает в индию или в южную америку или еще куда. С чем это связано?
2Folder, видимо БС(базовые станции) на Рокосоввского индийского производства :)
Сейчас упорно пишет что я в Аргентине :)
2Folder, buenos dias ))
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