Twitter applications on S60 phones

Jan 31

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Twitter on Symbian

A while ago I set about doing a survey of all the Twitter applications I knew of for Series60 phones. As I explored them I built up a list of features, 44 in all, across eight, in which I included m.twitter.com, giving me a total of 352 feature checks to perform.

Since I’m still inducting myself into the world of journalism, I took this as an opportunity to introduce myself to some developers. Doing that was a really positive experience, you get to have an exchange of views, and in some cases, contribute to the direction of their plans, albeit in small ways.

Strange as it might sound, the downside was that I got to know about up-coming features. It worked out that three of the eight were close to releasing new versions. So not wanting my article to be outdated within a week, I decided to hold it back while they got their testing done. This was fine, but it was something of a mental weight to bear, knowing that the article was just hanging there waiting to be completed. Fate took a hand when the editor of AllAboutSymbian.com (that’s who I was writing this for) e-mailed me one night last week to ask if the article could be published the following day. Since by then, two out of three apps were already updated, and the developers of the third had said not to wait for them, I replied that I could have it ready go.

The comments posted on the article (see my publications page), were as I expected. A steady stream of you didn’t review X or Y application. To clearly show the features of each application, I’d constructed a table, which formed the core of the article. After publication I spotted it had some errors. Frustrating, but it was still over 98% accurate

So, there’ll be two publications coming out of this project, as I’ll be posting an updated version of the feature table. I’ve already corrected my errors, and have compiled a list of even more Series60 Twitter applications, bringing the total up from eight to seventeen!

Now, forty-four checks per application, and nine more applications to check, so that means I have to do …