Tweetbot 1.5
Tweetbot v1.5 is now available on the app store. Here’s what’s new in this version:
- t.co url shortening support
- Mute filters
- Ability to email single direct messages
- Support for international hashtags
- Bug fixes
Author Archive
Tweetbot 1.4.3
Today, Apple has approved Tweetbot v1.4.3. This version has the following:
- Added sleep time for push notifications (notification quiet hours)
- Option to receive push mentions only from people you follow
- When emailing a link, the subject is the page title if sent from a web view
- Blocking/Reporting for spam now deletes associated tweets from the timeline
State of Push Notifications
For those who still don’t know yet, push notifications have been opened up to everyone. We also want to let you know that push notifications have been running flawlessly on our server so we plan to keep this service free for our users.
Push Hiccups
Tapbots push notification system depends on Twitter’s Site Stream product. Twitter considers this a beta product and while we’ve found it to be very stable there are going to be hiccups along the way. Over the last few days we’ve experienced some issues with the Site Streams server going down and when this happens, push notifications will stop working. When their servers comes back up you may receive a number of notifications as our system tries to catch up on messages it may have missed while the streams were down.
We are also aware that some of you are still not receiving notifications. Make sure you’ve tried everything we’ve posted in our Tweetbot Q & A. If you are getting all notifications except for DM’s, let us know on our @tweetbot account. We are working closely with Twitter to iron out any remaining bugs. We appreciate everyone’s patience on this.
What’s Next
We are hard at work on v1.5 and will be bringing a new feature that has been highly requested. And no, it’s not twitlonger or an iPad version. :)
Experimental Push Notification Q&A
There’s been a lot of questions and misunderstandings around our experimental push service so this post should help clear up a few things.
Ready, Set, Whoops.
The Bad News:
The push service isn’t working in 1.4. Provisioning profile issues. Human error. We are truly sorry. We submitted a new build with a fix that will work. We’ve politely asked Apple to expedite the process so hopefully the wait won’t be too long. But don’t feel too upset about this because the service was limited to 1000 people for launch anyways (read why here). Unless you downloaded it as soon as it was available, you probably wouldn’t have gotten access (at least not right away).
The Good News:
The good news is you’ll get another chance to get access when the update is out. :) Lets hope the approval process is quick. Yay?
But in all seriousness, we are truly sorry for the bad news. We know many of you have been waiting for this feature. But it’s still coming and soon enough everyone will be happy. Thanks for your patience and understanding that there’s always issues that come up when humans are involved in building things.
Push Notifications, Push Notifications, Push Notifications!
Now that we’ve gotten your attention, here’s an update. We are getting very close, but it’s important that you read this post carefully. Thanks so much for all of your patience thus far.
