Release #102 arrives Friday, June 26
It looks like we’ll have a release for brave testers this week. We’ll be contacting those of you who signed up, or you can just follow us on… Twitter @supertwtr
We showed the app to some developers at the packed Silicon Valley iPhone Developers’ Meetup in Palo Alto last week and got some great feedback. Thanks to Tim Burks for his energy in organizing the Meetups.
On the visualization front (our favorite place), we’ve been toggling between 2 versions with distinct views that will be merged into a melange of random visual surprises. Srsly. One version is authenticated and displays tweets from those you follow in a basic black and white display with the user picture. The other version is pulling random tweets from TwitGoo that have images referenced and are layered under the tweet. Jeff created a set of screen grabs on Flickr from the more visual version.
Paul has been rising before his lovely daughter Lilia wakes to optimize the database so you get all this goodness faster and more efficiently. Jeff is actually going to meet Paul this Friday for the first time since we started working on SuperTwitter. We haven’t seen each other in over a year and have been doing all of this work through Basecamp, Google Chat, and AIM. I think we spoke once by phone. Crazy.
George was feeling that the website was too dark and has been experimenting with a new home page. We’ll probably get that up in time for the app release. It does seem to more accurately tell the story of the waves of visual snips that you see in SuperTwitter. What do you think?
That should just about cover the news for this week. Thanks for your ongoing interest and if you want to see SuperTwitter in real-time let us know.
- Jeff, Paul, George, Drew and a few cheerleaders