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"Girl DM boy: Stop asking me what I'm wearing now. At first was fun now kinda annoying
Boy DM girl: Err um well Tweetie 2 bugs!"

- Pinot (@pinot)

Tweetie 2 for the iPhone has this bug that keeps sending messages that failed to send the last time it loaded. For whatever reason, even if the tweets get sent in successive attempts, Tweetie will attempt to resend that tweet resulting in repeat tweets though unlike Guy Kawasaki's famous triple tweets per link which is deliberate.

Atebits, the developer of Tweetie, claimed to have fixed this bug in the next release along with other issues such as not being able to save multiple accouts. Right now I'm limited to storing five accounts in Tweetie when I have nine or so accounts to manage. The sixth account will always be removed the next time the app is launched which is frustrating.

Tweetie 2 is also supposed to remember the last location and position it had opened on the next launch but this rarely works.

Early versions of Tweetie 2.1 which contains those fixes along with support for lists and the new retweet method are on the hands of beta testers. The rest of us will have to wait until it's submitted to the App Store and approved for release.

Sent from my iPhone

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One of the reasons why I love Tweetie as my Twitter client on both the Mac and iPhone is that both have a bookmarklet that makes sharing websites to Twitter that much easier.

Since the beginning, Atebits have made Tweetie bookmarklet available from the website. Drag that bookmarklet to your browser's bookmarks bar and you're all set. Clicking on it will bring up a new tweet window with the site's address already in it and you can shorten it with the URL shortener service of your choice.

Here's the code for the original bookmarklet:

javascript:window.location='tweetie:'+window.location

However, for certain purposes, this alone is not practical enough. The address provides little to no context so you'll have to enter some text of your own. I've been using a bookmarklet that takes out that extra step for the most part. It was put together by @devongovett not long after Tweetie Mac was released though unfortunately it was on his dropbox and it's been since removed and you can find it at his dropbox. At least one variation of this have popped up elsewhere on the web.

Devon’s bookmarklet will add the page title of the site alongside the address:

javascript:window.location='tweetie:'+document.title+':%20'+window.location

In my search for the origin of the second bookmarklet, I came across a few more that serve different purposes.

TechSutra and PaulStoneDesign came up with versions that lets you post a selection of text from the site along with the address.

This last one though is quite interesting. Some sites have their own url shorteners and for good reason. URL shortener services are not permanent. Just like every other internet services out there, they can come and go. The only certainty that a shortened link will remain alive, that is, linked to the actual address, is if it was provided directly by the site. Alternatively Twitter could come up with their own.

Right now it's not so much of an issue but a number of people have had the foresight to anticipate this and make their own shortener services. To respect those individuals and push this issue forward, here's one Tweetie bookmarklet that picks up the site's own custom short address.

Who knew Tweetie’s bookmarklet can be so popular that people are coming up with their own versions? 

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I know that Apple have a very clean image that they want to maintain (fart apps excepted) and have been rejecting apps that may offend certain groups but rejecting a Twitter app because of THIS???

I wonder if that particular reviewer at Apple has ever used or even heard of Twitter. Trends is a list of top 10 most popular word or string of words mentioned on Twitter, a trending topic if you will. There are roughly 8 million Twitter users around the world and at any one point certain words will become popular. For example, during a Macworld expo, the top ten most popular words would arguably include Apple, Jobs, MacBook, iPod, Macworld, Stevenote, Keynote, etc. You can see the list of words that become Trends on http://search.twitter.com

Any combination of words will make it to the top ten list of most popular words if enough people mention them on Twitter. Trends is a highly dynamic list that changes quite frequently because it contains entirely user generated content!

For Apple to reject Tweetie 1.3 because it just so happens that #fuckitlist made it to the top 10 at that particular moment is, to say the least, moronic, idiotic, uninformed, foolish, unbelievably ignorant, and amateur.

#fuckitigiveup

*update*

Earlier this morning (WIB) Apple approved Tweetie 1.3 without any changes. Yay @atebits!

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