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Blow your Vuvuzela!

thilo — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:24:10 +0000

Finally, there’s a new version of twibble mobile, and it’s free again! And it has some new features including

support for twitter’s oAuth/xAuth authentication. Basic authentication is no longer supported. Your twitter password will not be stored any more (it is used just once to get the oAuth token)
retweets are sent via twitter’s retweet api.
support for twitter’s location api

Check out the twibble mobile page for details.
Why is it free (again)? Well, I am starting a very exciting new job in a couple of weeks. There won’t be much time to support and develop the software. For this reason there won’t be any new versions of the desktop version, too.
Best, Thilo

new twibble mobile on the horizon

thilo — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:30:30 +0000

If you are looking for a replacement of twibble mobile this is for you: The new twibble mobile! The upcoming release will have loads of new features including separate timelines for tweets, replies, and direct messages, profile pics, support for Mobypicture, good looking themes, and a better user expirience. Here are some screenshots. Stay tuned!

Trouble with twibble?

thilo — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:23:12 +0000

Just in time before the launch of 2009 there’s an intitial FAQ helping you to get twibble up and running. In addition to all the highly appreciated comments of all twibble users below the posts and download pages the FAQ compiles the question most frequently asked. That’s why it’s probably called FAQ

Version 0.8.6 of twibble mobile

thilo — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:43:37 +0000

Version 0.8.6 of twibble mobile allows you to define text templates you can easily add to a tweet without re-typing. This could be tags (“#web20expoberlin”, “#current”), Locations (“L:San Francisco:”) or any other phrases you use often (“Good Morning Tweethearts, you Princes of Twitter, you Kings of the Web!!!” by courtesy of @PickiHH Should save you a lot of typing on your little tiny phone keyboard.
It also fixes some bugs most notably twibble shouldn’t steal focus any more when running in the background. The joystick left/right buttons are now assigned to page up/down and [8] or [h] puts twibble in background.

twibble for blackberry

thilo — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:33:40 +0000

The latest twibble mobile 0.8.3 now runs on Blackberry devices as well. At least if you have a recent device like the 8800 or 8120. It supports all the features like twitpic integration, maps, and even GPS (if you have a fancy GPS enabled BB). Please bear with us if it’s still a bit rough around the edges. Thanks to @mcdent for the testing!

0.8.3 has some other improvements which apply to all devices: @replies and direct messages are displayed in different colors, the main menu has been better organized and should display faster. In addition to the numeric shortcuts there are some keyboard shortcuts for QWERTY keyboards:

[t] opens the tweet dialog
[r] for @reply
[d] for a direct message
space fetches new tweets

And finally due to a new twitter API extension @replies are now properly linked to the related tweet. To install point your phone browser to http://m.twibble.de and follow the instructions.

twibble mobile 0.8.1

thilo — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:36:33 +0000

We just uploaded twibble mobile version 0.8.1. You can now update your twitter profile location directly from the phone. If you have a GPS phone you can submit your GPS data which can be translated into a address by the twibble server (“reverse geocoded”). It works like this:

start twibble
start GPS and wait until it says GPS in the title
go to ‘Update Profile Location’
select ‘Geocode and update’

If everything works well you should see your location in your twitter profile settings. Of course you can submit your position without using GPS as well.

In addition, twibble now displays locations sent by twitteriffic on the iPhone (those weird looking Strings in an users twitter profile: “iPhone: 53.584930,10.000259″). And finally it should run properly on the Nokia N78 (thanks again @nicksak!).

To update or download point your phone browser to m.twibble.de and follow the instructions.

twibble weekend news

thilo — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:57:21 +0000

There is good and bad news for the weekend. The bad news: The recent change in the twitter API which currently makes the ‘Earth Button’ in twibble desktop quite useless has not been reverted yet. As you know the button is supposed to display the geocoded timeline of your friends in Google maps but right now you wont see much. We hope we will get the function back. If you’re interested you can follow the loooong discussion in the twitter dev group. Here are some comments by staynalive.
The good news: twibble mobile reached Version 0.7.9! It has some bugfixes and should be resistant against duplicate tweets. You can grab it via the update menu in twibble mobile or navigate to http://m.twibble.de (on your phone). And finally, here’s a great hint by @9600baud to get twibble running on your PDA! You will definitely like his twitter background picture .

New twibble mobile

thilo — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:02:07 +0000

The new twibble mobile is available! With the new version you can tweet photos directly from your mobile device. The photos will be sent to twitpic, a popular service to share twitter photos. You’ll also get a completely revised user interface, support for themes, a filter function to display direct messages and at-replies only, and much more. Some of the new features are described in a previous post.
We’ll need some more time to update the pages on this site but for the impatient you already can get the new version at the link below. It should run fine on recent Nokia N and E series devices. If your mobile supports Java MIDP 2.0/CLDC 1.1 you can give it a try, let us know if it works! To get it running it’s probably best to uninstall any older versions of twibble and then install the new one.
There are few keyboard shortcuts worth mentioning:

0: options dialog
1: send a tweet
2: @-reply to selected screen name
3: direct message to selected screen name
4: toggle between all tweets and dm/@-Messages
5: jump to first tweet
6: page down
7: Mark selected tweet as a favourite
8: Run twibble in the background (Note: twibble may still try to fetch new tweets using your data connection! To shut down twibble always use ‘exit’)
9: Show log (to see more messages raise the log level in the Options dialog)
*: Fetch new tweets (use this to manually update your tweets. Only new tweets will be fetched and inserted to the current list)
#: Reload tweet list (the current tweet list will be cleared and the tweet list from the twitter server will be reloaded)

As always, feedback will be very much appreciated! Send a message to @twibble or leave a comment below. If twibble should behave strangly please check if the twitter is up and running before sending a comment as twitter seems to experience some technical problems in these days.
Please also note, due to the technical problems twitter has lowered the API rate limit. You currently have 30 requests/hour only. Otherwise you may get a “Rate limit exceeded’ error message.
To install open this link in your phone browser and follow the installations steps: http://www.twibble.de/sw/twibble2.jar After installation you’ll find the version number in the about dialog. It should be 0.7.0 or higher.
Update 02 Jun: You can install the new twibble here. Or use the update dialog if you are already using twibble on your phone.

Sightseeing with twibble

thilo — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:59:03 +0000

Menno has put together a great video on how you can use twibble, twitter, FireEagle, and wikinear on the Nokia N95. Really awesome, Menno! And many thanks!

new twibble mobile on the horizon

thilo — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:40:42 +0000

within the next couple of days (or weeks depending on the tests there will be a new twibble mobile. May seems about right for a little spring re-fresh. In addition to the existing features the new twibble will include

a revised user interface including keyboard shortcuts for the most important twitter functions
a filter function to display direct messages and @replies only
upload of photos to twitpic.com
support for different themes

Here are some screenshots taken on a Nokia N95:

The last screen shows how to attach a photo to your tweet. If you want to play with an early version send a dm to @twibble.