Comments on: TweetDeck for iPhone About to Launch for Free

By: techjai

techjai — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:54:22 +0000

i use tweetdeck for my normal tweeting life, though I installed tweetdeck on my iphone and it crashed twice..waiting for stable version

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:27:42 +0000

AND It has a Palm Pre UI with alerts and cards. I don’t use a desktop client, but I’ll set up TweetDeck to organize followees and backup my phone.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:05:20 +0000

Wow, TweetDeck is pretty cool. I like, I like! He should charge money for this.

By: Ricky Cadden

Ricky Cadden — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:48:19 +0000

Actually, the 140-character limit isn’t arbitrary – it’s there because initially, Twitter was an SMS-heavy service, and it still is, for a lot of folks. By keeping the updates to 140-characters, they ensure that you get the same content if you use SMS notifications.

It also happens to be convenient to keep folks from droning on and on about stuff. ;)

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:19:09 +0000

Not showing up for me yet.

By: Warner Crocker

Warner Crocker — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:08:54 +0000

It’s available now.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:53:52 +0000

PS #2 After Twitteriffic went to 2.0, I went to Tweetie full time. It’s trying to do too much. Though it looks pretty. Surprised TweetDeck is free. Hope they have a plan. Seeing if it’s available for an ota download yet.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:48:01 +0000

Wonder if you can use/maximize TweetDeck on the phone without a desktop client to sync too?

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:45:20 +0000

On a computer or device like the iPhone, 140 is short and appears arbitrary. But the wireless phone people must think of it as a SMS standard.