Twibble Mobile v1.1.3 J2ME -a location aware Twitter client- *update 31.07.10




[b]twibble s feature -
  • twibble uses oAuth/xAuth for authentication. It no longer supports Basic Authentication (new in 1.1)
  • support for twitter s location api. twibble displays LOC in a tweet to indicate that location information is available. You can open the menu Location->Show in map to see where the tweet was sent (new in 1.1)
  • tweets, replies and direct messages are displayed in separate views (flip with right/left keys or space . wipe right/left on touch screen devices)
  • fully integrated twitter search with automatic refresh of result list (new in 0.9.14)
    load tweets on demand when scrolling down the tweet list
  • send videos and photos to Mobypicture or twitpic (pics only). In case of Mobypicture you can even geocode your photo or video with GPS coordinates This is an example with a picture and this with a video (watch the map on the right). Read this post how it works.
  • automatic notification of new versions (new in 0.9.26)
  • Image browser to select pics you want to sent to twitpic/Moby new in 0.9.15/16
  • search twitter for users or hashtags directly from a tweet
  • re-tweet (forward) of tweets. With a few clicks you can re-send a tweet you received without re-typing the message (using twitter s retweet api)
  • quick @replies
    replies are properly linked to the original tweet ( in reply to )
  • follow/unfollow other twitter users directly from a tweet
  • mark tweets as favorites: Useful on the road when you want to mark a tweet for later reading.
  • support for ssl to make the transmission more secure
  • full screen mode with good readability
    (Optionally) display avatar pics, pics are automatically resized depending on the screen size of your phone.
  • auto refresh: retrieve tweets automatically after a given time period. Or retrieve tweets manually by pressing *
    fast and ressource saving implementation
    On most devices you can run twibble in the background.
  • notifications: configure twibble to vibrate if new tweets arrive.
  • keyboard shortcuts: to access the most important functions use the keyboard shortcuts.
  • themes: twibble comes with a couple of different themes you can chose from.
    optimized to generate as little data traffic as possible. Only new tweets are fetched to reduce data traffic.
  • open web links contained in a tweet (via phone browser).

In addtion twibble mobile can add your position to a tweet (but only if you want!). It can even make use of the built-in GPS if available. If twibble acquires a GPS position ( Start GPS in the location sub menu) it will be displayed near the title which can be added to a tweet. Your phone must support the Java Location API (JSR-179) in order to use GPS.

Keyboard shortcuts
  • Use the arrow or page up/down keys to navigate in the tweet list. twibble also has some shortcuts for numeric and qwerty keyboards (List describes twibble Version 0.9.24):
  • or [u]: Fetch new tweets (use this to manually update your tweets. Only new tweets will be fetched and inserted to the current list)
  • [#] or [s]: search
  • [0]: Options dialog
  • [1] or [t]: send a tweet
  • [2]: direct message
  • [3] or [r]: @-reply to selected screen name
  • [4] or [f]: retweet (forward) selected tweet
  • [5] or [h]: scroll to top
  • [6] or [d]: direct message to selected screen name
  • [7] or [v]: add favourite
  • [8] or : scroll to bottom
  • [9]: Show log (to see more messages raise the log level in the Options dialog)