After having seen the Twittwoch videos I realized that there is an interest in knowing what the link in your tweets is all about. I will try to explain it in two steps: Read More
Author Archives: Dirk Holtwick
iPhone App “Ready for sale”!
Finally after about a month of review the iPhone App is available in the AppStore: iTunes-Link
Status: Twittori for the iPhone
I submitted the first version of Twittori for the iphone the 23th of June.
Twittori Application Preview for the iPhone Simulator
We are happy to be able to share the latest builds of Twittori for the iPhone with you. This way you can do easy beta-testing even without having an iPhone at all. All you need to do is the following:
- Get your Mac running (sorry not available for other platforms)
- Make sure you have installed the iPhone Simulator. If you don’t get it for free at http://developer.apple.com/iphone/ (you will need to have or create an login but you don’t need to be enrolled for the Developer Program)
- Download the Twittori Preview App here: Download Preview
- Unzip and double-click on the application to install it
- Start your iPhone Simulator and enjoy
Feedback is welcome! Write to twittori@me.com
How is it possible? Well this is a great effort of Stefan Fürst from Media Atelier, Switzerland: http://www.grandtotal.biz/iPhoneSimulatorExchange/
Twittwoch Berlin
My dear colleague Dinu Gherman has done a very nice presentation of Twittori at the last Twittwoch in Berlin. Here are some links with material from the event:
- http://www.twittwoch.de/blog/2009/07/02/erste-bilder-vom-gestrigen-3-berliner-twittwoch
- http://www.slideshare.net/Twittwoch/twittori-tweets-aus-der-umgebung
Update:
Now the videos are also available. Please watch Part 4, 5 and 6. Attention, German only
Invitation to Twittori iPhone App Betatest
To get early access to an iPhone App in development we need to register your iPhone with the Apple AdHox Distribution System. Therefore your iPhone’s UDID is needed. See this article for further explanation how to achieve it: http://www.innerfence.com/howto/find-iphone-unique-device-identifier-udid
Once you have send your UDID to twittori@me.com and your iPhone is registered we will send you a ZIP file containing two files:
- A mobile provisioning file
- The iPhone app
Drag both on the iTunes icon and sync your iPhone. Now the app should be available on the iPhone for testing.
Unique features of Twittori
We started our little service that adds geo location information to single Twitter status messages.Unlike other services this is done by a tiny URL that contains the whole geo location e.g. http://GE0.at/0MbEX8 which describes the Eiffel Tower in Paris. This is achieved by a modified ‘geohash’ algorithm (more on that at Wikipedia).
The second unique feature is that users can follow places in a similar way than they are used to follow users on Twitter. Therefore the earth is divided in discrete squares of about 0.25 square kilometers. You can keep updated by subscribing to a RSS Feed or visiting the web site.
An iPhone application is also ready but not yet approved by the Apple App Store. In the meanwhile you can watch a little demo on the web site under the ‘iPhone’ menu entry.

