Tag: CHIRP

With more than 190 million users, and less than half of those using Twitter.com to post updates, the installed Twitter client market is massive. There are literally hundreds of Twitter clients spanning every desktop and mobile platform, and even a few cross-platform Web apps thrown into the mix. Even if you narrow down the search to just one platform -- Windows -- there's still a dizzying ...

Well, the Chirp conference is over, and the Twitter world will never be the same! See what's changed, plus new apps and fresh Twitter news, in this week's Twitter Tuesday. Here we go! Been wanting a Twitter username that someone else is just squatting on? Tired of checking back to see that nobody's posted from that account in a year? Rumor has it that Twitter is about to release a whole ...

At its Chirp developer conference in San Francisco, Twitter announced that an official Android client is on the way. What we don't know yet is whether it will be developed from scratch or acquired and rebranded. Twitter has taken both routes with its official apps thus far: the BlackBerry app was built in a partnership with RIM, and the iPhone app will be a rebranded Tweetie. If Twitter were to ...

Holy schnikies, there's a lot to talk about this week! Twitter is making big moves, including releasing official Twitter mobile clients, announcing an advertising model, hosting a developer conference, and even leaking previews of a redesign. Let's cut the jibber-jabber and get to the good stuff. Twitter Tuesday is go! First things first: the ads. The new Twitter advertising system is ...

Welcome back to Twitter Tuesday, where we drop all the Twitter news and gossip from the past week, along with the latest Twitter apps and gizmos. This is my third week writing the column, and I've managed to stick to my promise not to make awful bird puns or affix the letters "tw" where they don't belong. Read on to see whether I can make it one more column without turning to the dark side. ...

It's obvious that the development community for third-party Twitter apps has become pretty huge, but I didn't realize just how huge until Twitter announced its own official developer conference, called Chirp. The creators of the 50,000+ (whoa!) Twitter applications out there will be able to get together in San Francisco next year to talk shop at the event, which doesn't have a set date yet. In ...

Social media tool Chirpscreen is out of beta, and has a few new tricks up its sleeve. When we first looked at Chirp in January, the application was a tool for grabbing images from your Flickr and Facebook accounts and showing them on your Windows desktop. Now Chirp has added support Twitter and eBay. A Mac client is also available. Chirpscreen comes in two parts: a desktop viewer called ...

Is your Windows screensaver getting stale? Does it consist of the same old pictures from your hard drive? Spice things up with Chirpscreen, an interactive screen saver that automatically updates with content from your Facebook and Flickr accounts, including content from your friends. Chirpscreen is the first offering from Chirp, a company whose stated goal is to tackle the problems of social ...