iPhone – Gritter — Lefteros.com

Historical text from HellasProject (2009–2014). It is not current advice or a present-day service.

Twitter @jwr_: The first Greek Twitter client app for the iPhone! Twitter @singingcircuits: Pretty good, easy, fast, and it even works offline! Very Greek too!!

Gritter for iPhone

version 1.51.07

About

Gritter came out of an endless Twitter habit. I am fairly addicted, with a decent bunch of followers and real conversation rather than follow-spam. The app itself:

Friends — friends timeline since you last opened it
Mentions — when someone uses @yournick
Direct Messages
Favorites
More — Sent, Unread, and Settings:
- Twitter account (username and password)
- refresh interval for Friends, Mentions, and so on
- use Safari for links inside tweets
- dark theme for night tweeting
- shake for fullscreen (later builds reportedly broke this; I was going to look)
- pagination versus one long list
- initial load size, so a long absence does not freeze the app
- scroll behaviour
- “use in the bathroom” — try it yourself
- a footer/signature appended to every tweet

People will say photo, video, and geotag posting are missing. Those take months; they were planned once the current limits were cleared.

Versions

1.51.07 — small graphic polish with beta testers, new icon and splash
1.5 — code cleanup and full Greek
1.4 — more settings
1.3 — second theme; save a draft tweet to the sandbox if you quit
1.2 — dark theme study; fullscreen; clear the compose field
1.1 — dropped Interface Builder, everything in one project for learning
1.0 — working, partly Greek
0.9 — you can post a tweet
0.6–0.8 — public timeline, mentions, favorites, first settings
0.2–0.5 — fighting the Twitter API
0.1 — first idea

Notes

The app stayed on the shelf. App Store publication stalled because some bits (image thumbnails, resize, a couple of other spots) were borrowed code, which I cannot sell without permission.

It might still have gone to BigBoss for jailbroken users via Cydia, again depending on licences.