Tweetie 2 Has Escaped The App Store Birdcage

So thats it the much awaited Tweetie 2 has been approved by Apple and is now in the app store ready for download now for just £1.79 ($2.99). And once again its been called the best twitter app there is.

So now that its here, what does Tweetie 2 bring to the table. Well a couple of new features that have been added is the ability to translate tweets (especially good when searching for tweets / trends), you can now customize your own profile and now you can save searches to twitter.com directly to name just a few.

Not only does it bring new and exciting features right now atebits the developer states:

This is just the beginning. Tweetie 2 is already built to take advantage of great new features coming from Twitter, so expect updates turning them on soon!

I haven’t had chance to explore all the features in Tweetie 2 but one of the new features that I love is that you can link your contacts directly to your followers / followees so you can directly go to their twitter page in Safari.

Here is a list of all the new features available from Tweetie 2:

Seamlessly handle multiple Twitter accounts

Explore all of Twitter, from your own timeline and mentions, to the favorite tweets of your followers and friends

Full persistence: more than just caching tweets, Tweetie 2 restores your entire UI if you quit or get a phone call

Fantastic new offline mode. Read, tweet, favorite, follow, save to Instapaper and more even when you don’t have a connection. Your actions will be synced as soon as you go back online

Full landscape support (configurable of course)

Live-filter your tweet stream

Post photos and videos, even configure your own custom image host

Vastly improved compose screen with recent hashtags, @people picker, URL shortening and more

Compose screen multiple-attachments manager

Drafts manager ensures you never lose a tweet (and you can even send drafts to Birdhouse)

Link Twitter contacts to Address Book contacts

Follow, unfollow, block and unblock from multiple accounts simultaneously

Saved searches sync with Twitter.com and the upcoming Tweetie 2 for Mac

Autocomplete recent searches and Go-to-user

Threaded Direct Messages and improved conversation navigation

TextExpander integration

Rich integration with Follow Cost, Tweet Blocker, Favstar.fm and more

Edit your own Twitter profile

Specify custom API roots on a per-account basis

Tons of little things, including improved avatar caching, auto-refresh, refresh-all, seamless Twitlonger support, hashtag definitions and more

Nearby map view

Translate tweets

Preview short URLs

Safari bookmarklet support for easily sharing links

In-app rich text email composition

So there you have it Tweetie 2 is here and it looks like it will keep getting better us guys here at Nazaroth.co.uk like it but don’t just take our word for it here s what a few others users have said:

“…currently my favorite iPhone Twitter client by far.”

“…A must-have for Twitterholics.”

“If you use Twitter, and you have an iPhone, you need Tweetie.”

But not only that Apple has also give it the Apple Design Award 2009