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tweetTV lets you watch Twitter like TV. Discover channels and add them. Find cool tweeters, and follow them. Deceptively simple, but quite powerful. Features
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Do I need a twitter account to use tweetTV?
Nope! You won’t be able to take advantage of all the cool lists, but you can see ‘Everybody’s Tweets’ aka the public timeline and you can create searches to look for interesting subjects. If you don’t have a twitter account, go get one from Twitter.com. The Account panel comes up when you launch – just enter your twitter username (not your email!) and your password to get started.
Tweets on tweetTV
The basic controls for watching tweetTV
Tap an avatar to see fullscreen
Just tap the fullscreen avatar to dismiss it.
TIP: tap very close to the bottom of the screen to toggle the avatar’s aspect ratio – if you think some of the picture is being clipped, this will shrink the image to fit it’s width.
Surfing and Saving Channels
After entering your password – which you’ll only need to do once – you’ll be presented with the Surf Channels window where you can find, preview and add new channels.
Tap knob on TV to get to Surf Channels
Notice the Gear button in upper right – that’s where you’ll find tweetTV’s Setting Options like Account info, Manage your channels (delete and rearrange them), and get Help (here) and more info on the cool iPhone apps from Big Stone Phone.
Tap Gear to get to Account, Help, Manage
What are Channels??
Channels are Twitter timelines and can be of 3 distinct flavors:
- Search Channels
- List Channels
- Twitter Channel
Even without an account, you can make cool search channels. Tap the ‘New Search’ item. If you wanted to find all tweets from a tweeter, such as the author @twittelator, you would enter ‘from:twittelator’.
Create Search Channels on topics that interest you
You can learn more about creating Searches at Twitter Search, but remember these basics:
- words separated by spaces must both be in a tweet for search to match
- join words with OR (note all CAPS) to search for X or Y
- keywords followed by a : can make advanced searches
- about:twittelator
- tag:FF
- Examples:
tweetTV’s real power: Lists!
Lists will thrill both newcomers and oldschoolers alike! Tap ‘Feeling Lucky’ to view a random list – if you like it, and want to add it to your Saved Channels, tap the Add button:
Preview channels - tap Add to save in Channels
Find the exact topics you care about!
And you can add traditional twitter channels
Managing Channels
Tap the gear in Surf Channels to bring up Settings panel:
Tap Gear
Tap Manage Channels:
The Channels lets you reorder, delete one or all, and also pull in your existing Twitter lists as new channels:
You can delete and reorder channels too
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