After months of complaining about the lack of features on the official mobile twitter client, and the download overhead of slandr, I decided to write my own mobile twitter client. One that focuses on most needed functionality without the huge download overhead. I call it Tweete.
I’m still working on Tweete, but at the moment I have a beta release running that you are welcome to try out which you can find here: m.tweete.net. I’ve tried to keep the pages fairly light, at the moment each page is around 5k, which is roughly the same as the official mobile twitter client, but Tweete has extra features. Slandr on the other hand is around 25k per page load (last time I checked). My mobile handset browser (WM6 IE) doesn’t support gzipping content, so I’ve tried to make pages as light as possible without gzipping.
To use Tweete, simply login with your twitter login details and away you go; no need to create an account or maintain another password.
Currently the following features are implemented in Tweete:
- Send updates
- User & friends timeline (with pagination)
- View replies
- View direct messages & send direct messages
- Pagination for direct messages & replies
- Mirrored Twitter URL structure
- User profiles
- Follow & Unfollow users
- API Limit handling
The following features are planned:
- Delete tweets & direct messages
And the following may or may not be implemented:
- Customize css colours from twitter account settings
If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to contact me with them (or leave a ticket at the Tweete Trac page) and I’ll see what I can do :)
For those of you who are interested in implementation details; I used the Kohana PHP Framework. Kohana is designed from ground up as a lightweight secure php framework for rapid application development. I have had a look at a number of frameworks for php, and in my opinion, is the most easy and logical to use.
Awesome, gonna use this all the time now. *kisses slandr goodbye*
thx :)
Oke ben..
I think tweete is the best mobile twitter client right now…
@Fuad:
Awesome, glad you like it. :)
A new version is coming out in a few days.
I have nokia n70, why can’t I open tweete in my phone? i mean, when I open m.tweete.net, it succeed. but after I typed my email & password the page can’t open (blank). Why?? I’ve tried in n73 and nokia 6600, it neither can. Is my handphone not support with this application?
@Aghnia:
hmm, interesting problem. I will look into this ASAP! Do you know what browser you are using?
Maybe this is the most inspiring story for me. It is simple but strong in motivating people. Thank you for sharing here.