Quick App: qTweeter for Jailbroken iPhones
Efiko Software, the developer behind which we remember fondly for providing much needed UI relief to our old Palm OS devices, has produced a very interesting looking quick tweeting application for Jailbroken iPhones called qTweeter.
It works almost magically: just wipe your finger down from the very top status bar in an application and a quick Twitter window slides down and the keyboard slides up to overlay your screen. If you’re in iPod and want to tweet the music you’re listening to, if you’re in Safari and want to tweet a link you’re reading, a quick button press auto-fills the details in your tweet for you.
It can alternatively — or simultaneously — update your Facebook status as well.
This means no exiting one app, launching another, waiting for load, waiting to launch entry dialogs, etc. when you want to tweet something. Just drag and go.
These kinds of apps show that, even post iPhone 3.0, until Apple surfaces more API’s and figures out how to allow better cross- and multi-app functionality while retaining security, there’ll still be a vibrant community of Jailbreak developers — and some amazing software to go along with it.
Available for trial on Cydia, and can be unlocked fully via donation.
(Thanks to Doc31 for the pointer)
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April 30th, 2009 at 11:26 am
The concept is good, but it is very annoying to use if you have SBSettings installed. It opens them both at the same time.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:30 am
^wrong. They updated it so sbsettings is not an issue any longer.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:34 am
Really? When did they update it? Saw an update yesterday but no mention of any fix for the SBSettings issue.
In any case as long as you start your swipe ALL the way at the top (where the ear piece) is it usually isn’t a problem
And if it does activate SBSettings you simply close the SBSettings window and the qTweeter one remains.
One thing missing from this quick review is the fact that not only does the app. update Twitter but also Facebook and you can choose which one to update, both, one or the other.
April 30th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Shows how much I still use Facebook, sigh. Updating and thanks!
April 30th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
love this app. shows how the jailbreaking community is alive and strong. doesn’t conflict with sbsettings at all!
April 30th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Shall I jailbreak?? Or wait for 3.0??
April 30th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
@Christopher Thanks I didn’t know that
April 30th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
@Christopher Thanks I was waiting for them to fix that to make a purchase.
June 24th, 2009 at 12:32 am
Qtweeter currently does not work w/ 3.0 wait if you love this app also sbsettongs uses s horizontal swipe across the status bar when using tweet
July 11th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
the new qtweeter that is supposed to work with 3.0 doesn’t work on the 3GS. I installed it and it crashes my phone until I go into cydia and remove it. it makes my phone go into safe mode. i’m using the dev team unlock and have sbsettings installed.
October 18th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
This application doesn’t work on 3.1.2. Entering Twitter username / password causes a white box to appear on the screen, and stay frozen for quite some time. Unable to enter application data = no go for me — and I donated $5 thinking that would fix it.