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).

Birdfeed 1.1 Change Log

As I indicated on Twitter, Birdfeed 1.1 was primarily intended as a bug fix release. In time honored Apple fashion, I worked very hard in the month after Birdfeed’s release to smooth out the rough edges every software developer has to accept to ship a 1.0. Consequently, 1.1 is heavy on Snow Leopard-style “refinements” and light on out-and-out marquee features. Still, I think it sports some very nice improvements, and, more importantly, it lays a strong foundation for some more ambitious plans I’ve already been working on for 1.2.

Here’s what’s new:

Improvements

  • Added support for the iPhone OS 3.0 in-app Mail sheet when forwarding a tweet or a link (the Mail app will still open if you are still using 2.2).
  • Implemented a URL scheme and posting bookmarklet.
  • Added support for nearby searches with no search term.
  • Added a refresh button in the search view, and implemented “scroll to first new tweet” behavior for search refreshes.
  • Added support for the Bit.ly URL shortening service.
  • Added Posterous as a photo upload service.
  • Addressed compatibility issues with the upcoming iPhone 3.1 OS.
  • Slightly increased tweet font size.

Bug Fixes

  • Overhauled the multiple account system to completely address the Account Amnesia problem.
  • Overhauled the posting interface code to address a number of problems related to low memory conditions (existing post text being overwritten after returning from the camera interface, for example).
  • Fixed bug that caused a zero follower count to be displayed for users with large followings.
  • Made sure mentions count doesn’t update if you’re in the Mentions view.
  • Compensated for a Twitter API bug that caused fewer than the requested number of tweets to be downloaded, resulting in a gap between the new tweets and the older, cached tweets.
  • Addressed problems with using browser URLs for Instapaper or URL shortening before the page finishes loading.
  • Worked on memory efficiency and performance throughout the app.
  • Fixed a number of crashes that could happen as a result of invalid search queries.
Posted by buzzandersen on August 28, 2009