Twitbit 2.3 Now Available
It was just earlier today that I posted a Twitbit 2.3 preview, where I covered new features like lists, geo-tagging, retweets and more. I also promised to go into the full list of new features once the update was released. Well, you’ve waited long enough. Twitbit 2.3 was released earlier today — both in the paid and lite varieties.
Before I get into features, allow me to introduce Twitbit’s new tabs:
I know. I went on and on in a previous blog post about how having only 5 tabs was such a great achievement. And it was a good achievement — but not one that came without compromises. The accounts tab always kind of sucked. And combining your timeline and mentions onto a single tab had its downsides. The functionality added in this release combined with those considerations finally necessitated that we break the 5 tab barrier. So how do you manage and change accounts? Screenshots:
We think the new structure is as powerful and intuitive as ever. In addition to being better-structured, Twitbit 2.3 is packed with all kinds of small interface refinements and performance improvements. They really do add up.
On to some new features. First, trend explanations. Not only have trends been moved to their own tab so they are easier to access, but they now are accompanied by full explanations courtesy of Let’s Be Trends. Scroll through a list of trends with truncated explanations or tap into to see the full explanation and check out what people are saying.
Next up: person search. Twitter has made a ton of great progress recently exposing more functions to developers (and it looks like that trend will continue). The latest example of this in Twitbit is full person search — just like you get from Twitter. Instead of only being able to lookup a user directly by their username, you can now search by first and last name and get a list of matching results!
And that’s not all! The user view now notes whether someone is following you and let’s you add users to your address book. Here are some more screenshots of that view and some others:
All of these improvements are in both the paid and lite versions of Twitbit (except for those that are push-spectific), so check it out for free here. Or you can find more detailed release notes on our website. As always, we’d love some feedback. Enjoy the update!