Conweets, launched as a web service in the first week of July, was initially only meant as a side project of ours. But soon it saw unexpectedly high traffic and plenty of online as well as print media coverage. The response was admittedly overwhelming. This not only pushed us to work harder to make the platform more intuitive and feature-rich, it also made us examine the possibilities of this service expanding to other platforms other than the web. Certainly, mobile was the most obvious option to expand into. So we decided to go mobile with the very first version of our iOS app!
Twitter’s official iOS app, and other clients, don’t do justice to showing conversations the way they’re meant to be presented. So we decided to start with an iOS app for Conweets that would let users track conversations right from their iOS devices. Although not meant to be an all out Twitter client by any stretch of the imagination, it aims to deliver a true conversation viewing experience in the most elegant way possible. Driving on the same algorithms and database that the web service runs on, the iPhone app does its job swiftly in the same manner in which the web service functions.
The Conweets iOS app is live on the AppStore and can be downloaded here (The app is optimized for iPhone 5)
The app, in its first version, is extremely simple to use and is in line with the web service. All you’ve got to do is Sign-in with Twitter and authorize our app. Once authorised, you’ll be presented with an interface where you can enter the handles you wish to track conversations of. At this point in time, not all features of the webapp are available on the iOS app. More updates will follow with added features.
This is only our first step into the mobile platform and there are many more platforms waiting to be explored. We’re working on that. In the meantime, we’d like as many users to try our app as possible. We’re very eagerly waiting for some honest feedback.