February 12, 2010 - San Francisco CA - Stone Design aka Big Stone Phone today shipped tweetTV - a new way to look at Twitter tweets on your iPhone or iPod Touch. From the makers of Twittelator Pro comes an exciting new app which lets you surf channels and find exciting tweeters and lists to preview and follow.
Designed for both expert and newcomer twitter users alike, tweetTV provides instant access to the most interesting people on Twitter. Using TV as a metaphor, tweetTV lets you find, surf and program channels of tweets.
"tweetTV addresses the biggest challenge facing newcomers to Twitter: how to find Tweeple worth following for their areas of interest, " said Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design. "By letting you browse categories and subcategories of topics, and then previewing superlists of the top tweeters in that area, you can quickly find fascinating content tailored to your tastes."
Leveraging the power of TList's Superlists, tweetTV lets you find the top tweeters in these main categories: Sports, Arts & Entertainment, Business & Professions, Food & Dining, Health, Living, Politics & Causes, Regional, and Tech & Science. Within each of those topics, there are many sub-topics; for example, in Sports: Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, Fighting, Martial Arts, College Sports, Cricket, Cycling, Equestrian, Extreme Sports, Fishing & Hunting, Football, General, Golf, Hockey, Motorsports, Rugby, Running & Endurance, Skiing and Snowboarding, Soccer, Sports Fans, Tennis and Water Sports.
Even without a Twitter account, tweetTV can display tweets and search channels, so anyone who wants to experience Twitter can get started today.
"tweetTV and Twittelator Pro are the first iPhone apps to integrate and exploit our powerful Superlists," said Jonathan Glick, CEO of tlist.com. "We are committed to providing the highest quality channels for Twitter users to consume, enabling them to quickly find subject-matter experts of all kinds, and tweetTV lets you access that content in just a few taps."
Features include:
• Watch as many Tweet channels as you like
• Find cool list channels to follow • Create any search channel • Twitter timelines and messages • See tweeters full screen on TV! • Surf web links in tweets • Subscribe to lists • Follow any tweeter • Email tweets and links • Rotate for wide viewing • Get more tweets • ReTweet Tweets • Shows ReTweets
Minimum Requirements:
iPhone or iPod Touch
Pricing and Availability:
tweetTV 1.0 is available at an introductory price of just $0.99 from Apple's App Store on iPhone and iPod Touch, or at Apple AppStore via iTunes.
Stone Design is a New Mexico based software corporation founded in 1984 by Andrew Stone which has shipped over 20 titles for Mac OS X and its parent operating system, the NeXT, in the last 20 years. Major applications include Create, a page layout and web authoring app, iMaginator for image processing and Videator for video effects and VJ’ing. In the past year, in conjunction with BigStonePhone, has added 10 iPhone applications to the collection: TalkingPics for field photography and audio recording, iGraffiti which lets you paint on photos and share them, Gesture which lets you turn photos into digital paintings and share them, Twittelator Pro, the most feature laced twitter client for the iPhone/Touch, Pulsar the free pyschedelic strobe light and now SoundBite MobileMix Postcards, TalkingPics µ, and iCreated with artist David Scott Leibowitz. BigStonePhone is a collaboration between Stone and Jeff BIggus of Hyperjeff.net, and Geoff Pado of Cocoatype on SoundBite and MobileMix. |
