Maybe Apple’s iPhone app review process is actually partially automated, because I can see no other good reason for having rejected the latest update of Tweetie (1.3) for objectionable content. The offending word (the F-bomb, in case you were wondering) would normally merit that kind of treatm...

Filed under: News, iPhone, web 2.0 Many iPhone developers have horror stories about their apps being rejected from the iTunes App Store for frustrating, sometimes arbitrary reasons. After today, Atebits, makers of the bestselling iPhone Twitter client, Tweetie, might take the prize for the most absu...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Apple_rejects_Twitter_client_for_dirty_words_on_Twitter'; Apple's just reached a whole new level of stupidity in App Store approval shenanigans: the Tweetie 1.3 update was just rejected for displaying "offensive language" in its Twitter trend search view. Right, not...

Prologue: There are a lot of explanations of Twitter on the Web. What follows is not intended to be exhaustive. But I encounter this question so frequently -- What is Twitter? I don't "get" Twitter -- that I would like to collect my thoughts on the subject, cohesively, in one place. I hope for this ...

Prologue: There are a lot of explanations of Twitter on the Web. What follows is not intended to be exhaustive. But I encounter this question so frequently -- What is Twitter? I don't "get" Twitter -- that I would like to collect my thoughts on the subject, cohesively, in one place. I hope for this ...

Filed under: Fun, Social Software, iPhone No, not that kind of pee. Tweetie, a popular iPhone Twitter app, has introduced something they're calling the App Store Popularity EnhancEr (PEE, for short.) It's a scheme to make Tweetie more useful, while also improving its rankings in the iTunes app store...

If you’ve visit my F.A.Q section then yes I skipped #3 or #4 but I’ll get to those later but #3 will be how I got so many twitter followers and #4 will be who created my twitter background and the history of twitter backgrounds. Keeping with the twitter theme here my 5th most asked quest...

Tweetie, my preferred iPhone Twitter app, now has everything it needs to top the iTunes App Store charts: Fart sounds and a flashlight....

Filed under: Humor, iPhone, App Store Tweetie, my current favorite Twitter client for the iPhone, has just been updated to version 1.2 [iTunes link]. While the update offers a slew of enhancements, new features and improved functionality, what makes this release memorable and unique is the sly dose ...

Oh man, would I love to see this ... Tweety on the campaign trail - as the candidate! Can't you just see it? ... All lathered up with Aqua Velva , wide-eyed, charging out there, that thrill running up-and-down his leg . The first sightings of this surfaced earlier this month. From Bob Cesca's Goddam...