Late last week, a new Twitter client hit the App Store for the Iphone. It is called TweetGlobe. It was developed by a good friend of mine, so I knew about this app’s development for some time and it was awesome to finally see it go public.
Tweetglobe does something that I’ve never seen on the Iphone – it maps your tweets to a 3D representation of the earth. When you open the app, it downloads the last 10 tweets from the people you follow. As you scroll through them, the globe will spin around and place an icon on the globe wherever that person is located. Here is a screenshot from my own phone:
You can write new tweets as well as post replies from within TweetGlobe. By pressing the top-left button, you can update Twitter with your current location and it will edit the location field of your Twitter profile. Unfortunately, it overwrites your location with GPS coordinates. I personally prefer the regular city name where I am, so I had to overwrite that again. This is not a shortcoming of TweetGlobe, however. They all do that.
At first I could not figure out how to refresh the app and get new tweets, but my friend (the guy behind the app) told me to shake the phone and it will trigger a refresh.
TweetGlobe isn’t going to compete with the power of an app like Tweetie. I could never use Tweetglobe as my primary Twitter client. That said, this version wasn’t really intended to be your go-to Twitter app. This app was designed to bring the geographical representation of tweets to the Iphone. I’m sure Ryan has more planned for the app in future releases.
Tweetglobe is a new concept for Twitter on the Iphone. It’s crazy to actually see these tweets pop up from around the globe. So, great job UniqueApps!
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Dude… thanks for the SWEET review man!
I REALLY appreciate that.
And yes … we have LOTS of sweet features planned for the future of this app!
Thanks again,
Ryan
I think its great, if Apple would ever dump AT&T their stock would soar and more Tweeters will benefit.
Don’t pay for any of the non-ipod Twitter apps, get them free here: http://www.thetwitterstore.com
and participate with more organized following.