Today we are releasing a public beta of our new Windows Twitter client. Now windows users can enjoy Echofon's simple and clean desktop Twitter experience. We love it.

Enjoy popular Echofon features such as:

• Inline Photo Preview
• iPhone Sync – Always pick up where you left off
• Mute users, apps and hashtags (these settings sync too)

Get it Now

Give the beta a try, and let us know what you think!

Download Echofon for Windows, Public Beta

Now in the app store, Echofon 5 has several new features and enhancements.

Redesigned Compose View

The compose view has gotten an update with a cleaner look, and a draft manager. Whenever you exit out of the this view you’ll be asked if you want to save your tweet as a draft. You can save as many as you like and access them later. Also new is the ability to upload multiple photos.

Improved Scrolling Speed

We've put great effort into optimizing the most important aspects of Echofon – scrolling through the timeline. We think you’ll agree, it's snappier!

Black Theme

Back by popular demand, a true black theme. Great for late night tweeting. To turn it on, just go to Menu > Settings > Theme.

That’s Not All

We’ve made other small enhancements throughout the app, here are a few:

• Refined menu screen, with fast user switching.
• Quick tweet menu (activated by tapping an avatar in the timeline)
• Reply acts as “Reply All” by default.

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To comply with Twitter's new OAuth requirement, all of the Echofon applications will ask users to re-authenticate their accounts.

This is Twitter's new security measure for all third party applications, and you have to re-authenticate to read or delete DMs via Echofon after July 1st, 2011.

Re-authenticating is easy - Update your Echofon to the latest version (see below), you will be prompted to do so when needed.

• Echofon iPhone version 4.0.9
• Echofon Firefox version 2.0.9
• Echofon Mac version 1.4.7

To learn more about Twitter's requirements and OAuth, please visit Twitter's blog post.

UPDATE 12:00PM 6/30/2011: The new permission level is now in effect. There are few minor issues regarding re-authenticating. If you get into re-authentication loop, here's some workaround:

Firefox: Please update to version 2.0.9, or re-start Firefox after you re-authorized Echofon.

iPhone/iPad/Mac: Deleting account then re-adding it will solve the issue.

Thank you for a lot of feedback about new Echofon Firefox beta! Since many of you asked us to bring back old UI, we added "Panel Mode" which works like Echofon 1.x. This is how it looks:

Since Panel/Sidebar mode doesn't have a menubar, here's some tricks that you might want to use.

• Click selected tab to jump to unread point
• Tab key to next tab, Shift+Tab key to previous tab when the compose text box is focused
• Escape key to close Panel
• enter "@username" in awesome bar (location bar) to open user profile view

Here's complete changes in version 2.0 beta2:

• Added "Panel Mode" (works with Firefox 4 only for now)
• Added menubar on window mode with several keyboard shortcuts
• Added spell check and suggestion in the context menu of the compose text area
• Added "Popup tweet while Echofon window/sidebar is open" and "Always open a link in a new tab" option


• Echofon follows "Open new tab in background" settings to open links
• Click Photo View to open its original photo page
• Do not open Photo View if user clicks a photo URL (Photo View will be opened only by clicking thumbnail)
• Fixed an issue that unread border doesn't appear in certain case
• Fixed an issue of missing tweets
• Fixed an issue that retweet function doesn't work
• Fixed an issue that mute settings disappears after user restart Firefox
• Fixed an issue that default keyboard shortcut is conflicted with Firefox 4 on Windows
• Fixed several other minor issues

Download Echofon Firefox 2.0 beta

Today we are releasing a beta of the next major version of Echofon for Firefox. This update includes a redesigned interface, full Firefox 4 support, user streams support (coming soon, pending approval from Twitter) and many other features.

Echofon for Firefox is a Firefox extension that lets you easily browse Twitter while using your browser. This update brings it up to speed as a fully featured Twitter client.

New Design

This version has a newly design interface that can be used as a sidebar integrated into your browser window or in window mode which puts the app in a standalone window. In addition there are countless UI enhancements including inline photo preview and subtle unread tweet indicators.

New Features

We've added many of the great features present in Echofon for Mac and iOS to this version of Echofon for Firefox. You can mute clients, users and hashtags (mute settings sync between devices). Photo previews and photo popups make browsing media a joy. This version includes tabs for search (with trends, and saved search support) as well as lists. There is also a new conversation view and user view. View a user's tweets, lists, favorites, followers etc.

User Streams

We've built in support for user streams which allows you to view tweets immediately when they are posted without reloading. (Note: This feature is disabled for now, pending approval from Twitter)

Get it Now

Remember, this is a beta so things might not work or look perfectly, if you find a problem or have a suggestion, please let us know on Twitter (@echofon)!

Install Echofon for Firefox Public Beta

Photo Preview

We've just released version 1.4 of Echofon for Mac. This version brings the same inline photo/video preview that you've been enjoying on Echofon for iPad and iPhone to the Mac version.

Mute

We've also added support for Echofon's new mute feature to this version of Echofon for Mac. You can mute users, clients and hashtags. These items will be hidden from your timeline and you can add or remove them at any time.

Muted items are synced through the Echofon Push/Sync server so you'll have the same items available on any device where Echofon supports mute.

New Notification Settings

Notification settings have been simplified and the ability to disable unread counts has been added. Echofon still tracks and syncs unread tweets, but you can choose not to display the number.

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This entry explains recent issues regarding Echofon Japanese version.

[お知らせとお詫び]

日本時間3月6日より、コカ・コーラ パーク様とのタイアップキャンペーンを実施中ですが、その運用につき、以下２点問題があったことをお詫び申し上げます。

キャンペーンの内容ですが、これは、起動時の選択により背景色（テーマ）の変更および同社アカウントをフォローする、というもので、具体的には、起動時に

コカ・コーラ パーク1000万人会員達成記念！背景をコカ・コーラ パークのテーマに変更して、@CocaColaParkをフォローしますか

というメッセージを表示、「はい」を選択した方が対象となるというものでした。

問題は以下の２点です。

1. アド・フリーの有料バージョンでも上記メッセージが表示された

   有料版でも「いいえ」を選択することでアド・フリーとなると考えたのですが、メッセージを表示すること自体が広告であるとのご指摘を受け、日本時間６日にメッセージが表示されないバージョンをApp Storeに提出しました。

   ただし、App Storeから新しいバージョンのダウンロードが可能になるのは、アップル社に承認された後となり、それには数日〜１週間ほどかかると想定されます。その間はご迷惑をおかけすることをご容赦下さい。

2. 一旦変更した背景色（テーマ）をもとに戻す方法がわかりにくい

   ［メニュー］→［アカウントオプション］→［テーマ］で元の背景色（またはそれ以外）に変更可能です。

なお、上記２点は全てEchofonが決めたことであり、コカ・コーラ パーク様のご意向ではありません。ご迷惑をおかけしたユーザの皆様にお詫び申し上げます。

The newest version of Echofon for iOS just hit the app store. This is a great update with several new features and all-around speed and performance improvements.

Download the New Version, in the App Store

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Free iPad Version

Echofon Pro has been a universal app (available on iPhone and iPad) for a while now. Today, users of the free version of Echofon can also enjoy using Echofon on their iPad!

User Streams on iPad

Users of Echofon for Mac have been enjoying user streams. Now this great feature is available on Echofon for iPad. Just connect to a WiFi network and the tweets start streaming. New tweets will show up instantly, no need to reload.

Timeline Photo and Video Preview

Echofon on your iPhone now has photo and video previews in the timeline. This makes it even easier to see which tweets have media attached, and access it in one tap.

Mute

We've added a mute feature which lets you squelch users, clients or hashtags that you'd rather not see in your timeline. Just go to Menu > Account Options > Mute and add as many filters as you like.

Instant Push Notifications and Social Event Notifications

Push notifications were previously limited to mentions, replies and direct messages. Over the next couple weeks, all Echofon users will start to receive instant push notifications for all direct messages, mentions, replies, favorites and followings.

I am excited to tell you that we have been acquired by Postup, an Idealab company.

Postup plans to keep Echofon team and products intact, and we are working hard on improving the family of Echofon products. New iPhone version should be out in weeks, and you'll see amazing new features on Echofon for Firefox that will be available in beta sometime later this month.

Echofon started as my personal project three years ago and I never imagined it would become so popular, being used by millions of people. I would like to thank you all for your support that enabled our growth, and hope we can keep providing clean and simple user experience.

It's been a little over a month since we launched Android TweetDeck 1.0. Thanks to a great beta period we were able to deliver a really solid first version of the app. Use cases had been polished out, bugs fixed, but still, there's always more to be done.

Today we're releasing Android TweetDeck 1.0.3 to the market with many of the features we've heard most requested since launch. Included is the ability to manually shorten URLs, change the photo service to Twitpic and more complete support for landscape mode.

Click the device Menu button to change image services or manually shorten a URL.

Change log for 1.0.3:

• Landscape mode for all update detail views
• Added support for Twitpic
• Manual bit.ly shortening
• Allow for dismissing Places notification
• Fix faving tweets on 3g in France
• Allow old style RTs for protected users
• Support FB Single Sign On
• Allow users to delete DMs that are sent to them
• Likes and comments on FB photos should stay in app
• Several bug fixes and performance improvements

1.0.3 is rolling out to the Android Market now and should be available for everyone running Android 1.6+.

While we think this is the best version of Android TweetDeck yet, it is by no means slowing down in development. High on the priority list is user name auto-complete, ability to upload video, native Facebook image posting and better widgets. 

If you're interested in helping us beta test new versions, need help or want to send feedback, please make sure to follow @deckondroid. 

 

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