Hands on: Tweet Library for iPad

Tweet Library is a different kind of Twitter client for the iPad, less about tweeting and more about collecting. Although it is a definite departure from the norm, there are some potentially useful features here.

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[Gazoobee]

I've seen a couple of stories on this product and while it seems very good at what it does, what it does is *violate* the whole Twitter paradigm.

Tweets are meant to be light, lighter than IM, unidirectional, and gone forever right after they are tweeted. The whole concept of storing, cataloguing and reviewing or saving past tweets goes against *everything* Twitter was originally supposed to be.

Why would I want this extra management job of sorting and saving my tweets? If it's a two way communication it should be in IM or email. If the things being tweeted are so "mot juste" that you want to save them ... put them on a stupid T-shirt. It would be a lot closer to the point of what Twitter is supposed to be.

 

[alecperkins]

Tweets are meant to be light, lighter than IM, unidirectional, and gone forever right after they are tweeted. The whole concept of storing, cataloguing and reviewing or saving past tweets goes against *everything* Twitter was originally supposed to be.

Says who? The great thing about Twitter is that it can be whatever you want it to be. It's a platform, with the functionality extended by the apps around it. For some, it is a ephemeral messaging service. Others, such as myself, do want the ability to go back in time. Browsing your own history is often surprising. It can be useful, too. There are several times when I've had to look up a link I had tweeted, and the only way to do it was go through the history I had collected with my own purpose-built program.

What Twitter is about is letting the community decide what features it wants. Evan Williams himself has said as much: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/evan_ ... users.html
(BTW, I went into my Twitter history to get that link.)

 

[h3nrch]

I've been using Tweet Library for the past week and I have to say that it's impressive. The UI is simple and elegant. As for functionality... I *really* like the Filters function and find it immensely useful when cutting through a day or two of missed tweets. That said, I'd like to see quicker access to toggle the filters while browsing the Timeline or other tweets streams. Also, being able to export all of your tweets to a CSV is pretty great. However, I think it would be much more useful to be able to export them to a dedicated file/folder structure in a Dropbox and/or WebDAV account. Of course there are minor issues here and there. But on the whole it's an awesome app for a first release and a top-tier Twitter client for iPad.

 

[troubledwine]

Tweets are meant to be light, lighter than IM, unidirectional, and gone forever right after they are tweeted. The whole concept of storing, cataloguing and reviewing or saving past tweets goes against *everything* Twitter was originally supposed to be.

Wow you're going to be disappointed to learn that the Library of Congress is keeping a copy of ALL tweets.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/techn ... .html?_r=1