Birdfeed Features

  • Manage multiple accounts.
  • Post images from your choice of service (yfrog, TwitPic, or Posterous).
  • Search Twitter (including support for saved searches, trends, and hashtag lookup, and nearby search).
  • Post shortened URLs using Bit.ly and Tr.im integration.
  • Post URLs from Safari using Birdfeed's bookmarklet support.
  • Save posted links for later reading using Instapaper integration.
  • Re-post tweets using your choice of "retweet" style (quote, RT, or via).
  • Load older tweets using infinite scrolling.
  • Navigate reply chains.
  • Find out more about other users using integration with third-party Twitter services such as Favrd, FollowCost and Overlapr.
  • Log in using a secure connection.
  • Forward tweets or links using the in-app Mail sheet (iPhone OS 3.0 only).

Account Amnesia Redux

Unfortunately, it appears that for some subset of its victims, the dreaded “Account Amnesia” problem is not entirely solved by Birdfeed 1.0.1. Though we tested our fix on a variety of different permutations of the problem, it appears we may have missed a persistent crash that can occur if your Birdfeed account credentials in the iPhone Keychain are already in a particular inconsistent state. This problem should only affect people with mixed case usernames who are upgrading from Birdfeed 1.0.

Fortunately, there’s a much easier workaround for this problem than for the old one: simply delete your existing account in Birdfeed, and then log in again using only lowercase letters in your name. Once logged in, your account name will still show up in Birdfeed the way it appears on Twitter’s site.

Needless to say, we will be taking a long, careful look at the account management code for the next release. Apologies once again for all of the confusion this issue has caused.

Posted by buzzandersen on July 8, 2009