Tweets and Feeds New Versions In Apple’s Hands
March 29, 2010 — Mike (admin)After a long 2 weeks of iPad preparation (more on that later) we managed to get an update for both Tweets and Feeds out to Apple. Feed’s update is a small one but an important one.
It includes a big fix for posting links to external services:
- Added a new setting for link posting (Instapaper, ReadItLater and Twitter). If you use any of these services please open the Settings.app and choose your preference.
- Refresh interval will now work even if you don’t use Google for syncing
Tweets got a whole boatload of new features including:
- Seamless Twitlonger support for tweets larger than 140 characters
- Video upload to yfrog added
- bit.ly added as an option for URL shortening
- Removed ‘Open to Launcher’ in favor of ‘Open to’ with a choice of Mentions, DM’s, Launcher and Timeline
- Added an option to ‘reply to all’ when there is more than one person mentioned
- Names in tweet streams will now resize with the font size setting
- Posts will show up instantly if posting when on your home timeline
- Links with no ‘http://’ will now get turned into touchable links
Enjoy the updates and to all you early iPad adopters we’ve got a new Universal (iPhone and iPad for one price) application that will *hopefully* make launch (depending on Apple of course). If the iPad isn’t for you, fear not as the app will work equally well on the iPhone/iPod touch.