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Developer(s)	Twitter Inc. (Previously atebits, LLC)
Initial release	November 19, 2008
Stable release	3.3.6 (iOS), 2.1.1 (Mac) / August 16, 2011; 5 months ago (2011-08-16) (iOS), June 1, 2011; 7 months ago (2011-06-01) (Mac)
Operating system	iOS, Mac OS X
Type	Twitter client
License	Commercial
Website	itunes.apple.com (iOS) itunes.apple.com (Mac)

Twitter is a client for Twitter, the social networking website. There is a mobile version that runs on iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, and a desktop version runs on Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard (respectively 10.5 and 10.6).

The program was originally named Tweetie, developed by atebits. Both its iOS and Mac versions were acquired by Twitter, in 2010 and 2011, respectively.

Contents

1 History
2 Acquisition by Twitter
3 References
4 External links

History

Similar applications include Seesmic, Twitterrific and TweetDeck. The Mac OS X version of Twitter has many of the same features as its portable sibling. It has a free ad-supported version. The registered version costs $19.95. The beta of the Mac version was leaked to the popular torrent site Demonoid a week before the official release.

Acquisition by Twitter

On April 9, 2010, Twitter announced through a blog post that the company had acquired Tweetie. Twitter stated that the acquisition stemmed from the lack of an official, Twitter-branded mobile application. Tweetie was rebranded as "Twitter for iPhone" and released on May 17, 2010. The company's founding CEO, Loren Brichter, became part of Twitter's mobile division and helped launch the "Twitter for iPad" application. ^[1]^[2]

On January 6, 2011, Twitter announced through a blog post that the company had also acquired the desktop version of Tweetie, changing the name to "Twitter for Mac". "Twitter for Mac" was launched on the new Mac App Store the same day.

References

^ "Twitter Blog: Twitter for iPhone". Blog.twitter.com. 2010-04-09. http://blog.twitter.com/2010/04/twitter-for-iphone.html. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
^ "Twitter for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store". Itunes.apple.com. 2010-05-18. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twitter/id333903271?mt=8. Retrieved 2010-06-06.

External links

Review at Daring Fireball by John Gruber
Review at tweetcrunch (link dead per 28 Jan 2012)
Review at Smoking Apples
Developer's Site

v d e Twitter

Clients	List of Twitter services and applications · Brizzly · HootSuite · HOSEbird · Mixero · Seesmic (Seesmic Twhirl) · SimplyTweet · Tween · TweetDeck · Tweetie · Twitdom · Twitterrific

People	Jack Dorsey (executive chairman) · Evan Williams (director) · Biz Stone (creative officer) · Dick Costolo (CEO)

Other	Twitter usage · Favstar · Golden Tweet Award · Shorty Awards · Twitoaster · TwitPic · Twitscoop

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