qTweeter 3.0 is here

This morning I got a Yak message from fellow mygreatiphoner Nazaroth letting me know that the update to qTweeter was amazing. Well I thought to myself I’ll have to jump straight on that one.

For all you guys and girls out there that dont know about qTweeter here is a little bit one of my favorite tweeter clients.

qTweeter is a app that has no icon for your springboard, with just one swipe down from your status bar you are there (kinda slick aint it). The app allows you to post tweets and Facebook updates straight from this panel, and the best bit about it is that you can do this from your springboard or any app that is open.

So there you go that’s basically it. So why you ask, did Nazaroth Yak me saying it was amazing, well let me tell you more.

qTweeter is available through Cydia and costs $4.99. The app does loads more than the things I have just mentioned, it allows you to update multiple Twitter and Facebook accounts so you don’t have to update each one individually.

Now I now myself and Nazaroth have both been using qTweeter for a while and one thing that we have been waiting for for ages is the ability to search for users (friends) in qTweeter and be able to @ (mention) them. Now sometimes this can be hard as some peoples usernames on twitter aren’t that easy to remember especially if you follow or are followed by a lot of people. Well the people at Efiko Software (the authors of qTweeter) have now made it a lot easier for us by adding the Twitter friend Finder. Just tap the @ symbol at the top of the qTweeter panel and up will pop a screen that will let you search for friends either by Full name or Screen Name.

One you tap on their name from this screen it will instantly add there screen name to your tweet. Now that’s the first bit of the update that sold me but wait there is a hell of a lot more.

The app allows you to post pics and vids from it and provides a variety of site links that will do it for you. For instance I wish to tweet a pic of me writing this, I just swipe down tap the little photo icon at the top and I’m greeted with 3 options: Video, Photo and Library. I tap photo and the camera appears, take my pic, tap use and then I’m shown a full scale pic of the photo behind the qTweeter panel, tap update status and qTweeter will send it to one of your chosen pic hosts either Twipic, yFrog or Posterous.

Before I mentioned that it will also post video. Now I can here all you 3G and 2G iPhone users say “how can I post video” well qTweeter allows 3G and 2G users to use Cycorder from Cydia. Once again qTweeter allows hosting for videos by TwitVid, yFrog and Posterous.

So lets say that your walking down the street listening to this great new tune that you have on your iPhone and you want to share what your listening to with all your followers and friends. Tap the Music note at the top of qTweeter and the app will auto post the name of the artist and the song that’s playing. It will also use the nowplaying #tag and put a link to where to buy the tune from.

Some other new features that have been added to qTweeter is the ability to update your profile location and add your location to your tweets.

As well as being able to post what tunes you are listening to, you can also share what websites your reading. qTweeter will post the name of the article and shrink the URL and post it straight away. While we’re talking about URL’s we all know that Twitter only allows users to use 140 characters to update their status’. If yow wish to post a URL in your tweet then this can take alot of those 140 characters up. Now qTweeter will auto shrink any URL that you tweet.

Another thing that I noticed about the update today is that users now have the ability to cut, copy and paste. The previous version only allowed paste support so this is a nice little bonus. Saying that though the support for copy and cut is a little hit and miss and Efiko Software needs to work on this feature a little.

Below is a few more screenshots from the app:

So all in all this is a much awaited update that I know is one of the best updates that I have seen from an app. The features that have been added are priceless.

Yeah there could be a few tweaks especially to the copy and cut functions but I would definitely recommend this to you all.

qTweeter 3.0 is a five star Jailbreak App.