One of the best Twitter clients for the iPhone, Tweetbot, has finally added push notifications for replies, mentions, direct messages, etc.
Update 1.4.2 to Tweetbot for iPhone adds push notification badges to the app icon, and the app's developers at Tapbots are also claiming that all users should finally be able to fully enable push notifications.
While the Lodsys saga with Apple and its developers drudges on, another company has decided to join in the patent troll party. This time, it's an Indian-based company by the name of Kootol, and this time, they're not just going after the little guys.
FOSSPatents is reporting that Kootol has distributed a press release announcing that it has sent "notices" to a long list of companies (large and small) regarding their use of Kootol's Intellectual Property. The IP in question involves social "feeds" like you'd find in Twitter or Facebook...
With Twitter becoming the world's water cooler, everyone is scrambling to integrate the social network into their software and hardware, with Apple being no exception.
When iOS 5 ships to eager users later this year, it will have Twitter baked right into its core, with contact syncing as the only real feature to be yet demonstrated by Apple.
What we really want from iOS 5 Twitter integration is system-wide tweeting. Being able to send new tweets without having to stop what you are doing would be really cool, though we're not holding out much hope that Apple will give it to us.
Once again though, the jailbreak scene has us covered, with TwitkaFly doing the business this time around...
RazorianFly is reporting that Tapbots, the creators of many popular iPhone apps, will bring Push Notifications to their popular Twitter application, "TweetBot." The update supporting Push Notifications should be out very soon.
Tapbots teased this on Twitter when a user by the name of "@NotoriousUSB"Â tweeted to them about not using TweetBot anymore, due to the lack of Push Notifications.
We've reported on a lot of unfortunate events here on iDB. From the ongoing struggle in Foxconn's factories, to human rights, to the awful tragedy that struck Japan earlier this year. So needless to say we love it when a feel-good story comes along.
Just a few days after hearing the heartwarming story of Holly and her iPad, another touching tale involving an iDevice has started to circle the web. The Loop uncovered this report from a Chinese publication about how an iPhone sparked a reunion between a mother and daughter...
Just before Apple's big iOS 5 reveal at WWDC a few weeks ago, rumors began circulating that Apple was planning to integrate Twitter right into the system. At the time we didn't know whether the rumors were true or not, let alone how deeply integrated it would eventually turn out to be.
When Steve Jobs and his band of merry men took to the stage at WWDC, we finally saw what Apple had in store for us, but despite iOS 5 largely hitting the spot we couldn't help but feel let down by the fabled Twitter integration, at least in its current form...
The iPad is so simple even a Pope can use it.
Watch this video of Pope Benedict launching a Vatican website, but also sending his very first tweet directly from his iPad. As you can tell, the Pope doesn't seem to be much impressed by what the iPad can do...
It's no secret that Twitter has become incredibly successful as a social network and publication tool. A large part of the site's success is thanks to the mobile implementation we've seen in an array of third party clients over the years.
Particularly, on the iPhone, Twitter apps are a dime a dozen. You've got the official client, TweetDeck, Echofon, Tweetbot, etc. all clamoring for attention in the App Store.
The folks at Onavo Insights have put together a nice infographic detailing Twitter's statistics on the iPhone. Check it out after the break...
We already know that iOS 5 will bring deep Twitter integration to iDevices. So far, we've confirmed that iOS 5 will let you tweet pictures from the Photos app, your location from the Maps app, and a link from Safari or the YouTube application.
One thing we know it's not doing at the moment is letting you send a tweet from anywhere, without attaching an image, your location, or a link. Well folks, it seems that Apple is working on a way to integrate Twitter even more with iOS, by letting you tweet from anywhere...
If you've been holding off on jailbreaking iOS 5, you might be interested to know that a new jailbreak utility is available for the beta software. Like UISettings, this tweak sits in your Notification Center pull down menu.
WeeTwitter is a Twitter widget for the new Notification Center in iOS 5. It displays a segment of your Twitter timeline, as well as other Twitter features like @ messages and Search. How can you get your hands on this cutting edge jailbreak release?
Here is a feature that had slipped under my radar but I just found out out about it on AllThingsD, even though I still had to dig around to figure out how to get it to work since the article didn't mention how to get there.
We already know from the WWDC keynote that iOS 5 is bringing deep Twitter integration. One of the many new features in iOS 5 is that you can add a Twitter handle to any contact. What Apple didn't mention is that you can also add Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, and Myspace info to any contact...
As if you needed any more reason to anticipate the biggest upgrade to iOS ever! Yep, we have a few more savory pictures of iOS 5 in the flesh, and we want you to see them.
This next batch of photos show off three new features to iOS 5: Newsstand, Reminders, and Twitter integration.
It's funny because prior to the show, Twitter integration was probably one of the most highly anticipated rumors. After the show, you almost forget that Apple even announced it, that's how insanely deep iOS 5 is.
Check out a few more screenshots of iOS 5 inside...