iTwitter is yet another new Twitter app for the iPhone, and one that ‘s getting a fair amount of attention today as it ‘s being touted as the first iPhone Twitter app to do push notifications. The thing is. its push notifications only cover mentions and DMs from other users of iTwitter, not from users […]
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New iPhone Twitter App Does Push Notifications, But Only for Its Users, Not All Twitter Users

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iTwitter is yet another new Twitter app for the iPhone, and one that ‘s getting a fair amount of attention today as it ‘s being touted as the first iPhone Twitter app to do push notifications.

The thing is. its push notifications only cover mentions and DMs from other users of iTwitter, not from users of Twitter itself.  For me, this renders the feature useless “ just as Twinkle ‘s ‘Nearby ‘ feature that only showed nearby users of Twinkle was.  You lose all the power of  being on a popular network like Twitter if you start separating yourself out onto little segments of it, and only seeing the activity of those segments.

Other than push, I ‘m not sure which “ if any “ unique features are offered by iTwitter.  It ‘s a free app though, so let us know what you think of it if you end up trying it out.

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