While Loren Brichter may be hard at work on Tweetie Two for the Mac, he hasn’t given on his baby: Tweetie 2 for the iPhone. While the app hasn’t been updated since late November, a new build is due shortly with one big addition: native Foursquare support.
What this means is that anytime someone in your tweet stream sends out a tweet from Foursquare (which, to the annoyance of some users, happens automatically at times), that Foursquare link (shown as a 4sq.com URL) will be able to be opened in Tweetie in a way that displays the location information in a nice format. When a tweet is eligible for this feature, you’ll see a purple square logo in the upper right hand corner of the tweet in Tweetie.
When you click on a Foursquare link, you’ll be taken to a page that shows the venue’s address and phone number as well as the Foursquare mayor of the place. If you click on the address you’ll load a Google Map showing you exactly where it is. If you click on the phone number, you’ll be able to call the place right from the iPhone. Below all of that, there is a button to open the venue in Foursquare, which launches the Foursquare iPhone app.
A couple other new features in Tweetie 2 include Vodpod video uploads and the ability to attach messages along with your TwitPics to that service.
Look for this Tweetie 2 update soon in the App Store (it will be version 2.1.1). Meanwhile, Tweetie Two for Mac should be released in a private beta in about a month, according to new info shared on MacHeist today. Tweetie for Mac will soon be added to the nanoBundle 2, and in anticipation, they’ve added this message:
As a MacHeist customer, you’re not only receiving a free upgrade to the upcoming, highly anticipated Tweetie 2 – we’ve also arranged exclusive access to the pre-public beta for you guys!
Have fun using the best Mac Twitter client for now… and stay tuned for an email from us in about a month with your invite to the future of Mac tweeting.
Awesome. This guy keeps innovating in a crowded app market to keep Tweetie at the top. This might make me begin to appreciate 4SQ a bit more
Tweetie is the only app I’ll use for Twitter or Foursquare.
NICE… Tweetie 2 is just awesome – keeps getting better
why don’t you guys make a “tweet” section. it seems twitter related apps and news are taking over the tech crunch feed
Tweetie is awesome, but I really just don’t give a damn about Foursquare.
I like this addition, though I wonder if he plans to expand it to a general ‘location service’ icon, with info on Gowalla check-ins, etc.
Either way, I like the continued integration of geo into other social services.
Man, a story involving the iPhone, Twitter and Foursquare? MG must have had to change his pants.
Are we talking significant numbers here? How many people use geo data anyways? Anyone has an idea?
Mg uses it. He’s the only user that matters. Keep it up MG. Ignore the haters. The haters hate but you still rise(somehow). Foursquare for ever! They’ll be bigger than Google, Microsoft, IBM and US Steel combined.
My pants also explode every time I read your posts.
For those that are saying they’re going to be using Tweetie for foursquare instead of the foursquare app, you cannot check-into foursquare via Tweetie, only look at venue’s.
If this is what it seems to be, then I’m not enthousisastic about it.
This looks like a deal between foursquare and tweetie to get tweetie users to switch to foursquare as a location service. I don’t care about foursquare, gowalla or location services as they exist today in general, but I do care about choice. It’s a paying app, if I buy tweetie, I want to be able to chose which location service I use, just like they offer choice of url shortener and image service.
I disagree. I am a Gowalla user but I still find this useful. I already use Tweetie for most of my news/info, with this I can search for nearby tweets with 4square’s geo-data and get info on local places.
I do see what you mean though. I just don’t think that was his intention, but this feature makes the check-ins of people using other location services less valuable to Tweetie users.
It’s about freaking time he got up off his ass and started updating his apps.
Siegler, reply to the Vegas email and get a free iPad!
I think what would be a game change is to implement job searching capabilities with location based services. So for example if someone in your network or extended network is looking for a job, and you both are in the same vicinity, one of these location based services alerts you to that fact and you could meet up with them and discuss the job opportunity. Unlike restaurants and bar information, which really provides very little value, the employment industry can be huge for Location Based Services. Even if they can a cut like ebay does if a transaction goes through. In this case a transcation will be defined as Employee offering Employer a job. This will be a huge money making machine that rivals Monster.com for hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues. I am sure employment matching will be huge and we might not have heard much about it because everyone who might be working on it is keeping it big time hush hush. The best deals are those that benefit both people and this concept will be a game changer on how people find and discuss work. If I had even a little bit of money, I would dive into this idea right away,I would create mobile apps for employment leveraging location Bases Services. I am sure someone at Facebook or Monster/Dice/Careerbuilder is thinking of how to take the first dive and gain the lions share of the market for this new industry.
Wow, the ideas are pooring in today. Games like Farmville can monetize so much more money on Location Bases Services. They will be able to create huge aminal shows where we will be able to trade and buy cows/sheep/goats/swine. Once you implement a distance to it, it will make Farming so much fun since you will be able to visit neighbor farms or even travel abroad to other countries where you can pick up rare seeds that you will bring back home. I see a world to anoter dimension using LBS with Games such as Farmville.
Only If I did not lose my job 1 year ago and lost my house to foreclosure, I would be creating the next disruptive technology using LBS but instead I am here shedding tears on what might have been.
So how come there are so many posts about four square on TechCrunch? Not complaining, just wondering what’s up.
Actually funny how the second checkin in the first screenshot is made using SquarePik (http://SquarePik.com), and while you can’t clicks on Foursquare, on the new tweetie it even recognize that has a picture attached.
ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER FOURSQUARE POST — WTF IS TECHCRUNCH IN LOVE WITH FOURSQUARE? SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME UNDERSTAND?