Echofon for Facebook is now available in the iTunes App Store. The simplicity and speed of Echofon are now available for Facebook! The Echofon for Facebook iPhone App provides a straightforward interface to the most common Facebook features. Easily switch between News Feed, Messages, Photos and Notifications through the familiar tabbed interface.

Additionally, you will be instantly sent a push notification whenever you receive a message from another Echofon for Facebook. Get your friends to use Echofon for Facebook and you can exchange Facebook messages, just like SMS.

It’s easy to do common Facebook tasks such as read your News Feed, comment on your friend’s statuses and photos, send and receive messages, post status updates with photos and videos and check your notifications.

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Echofon for Facebook is now available in the iTunes App Store. The simplicity and speed of Echofon are now available for Facebook! The Echofon for Facebook iPhone App provides a straightforward interface to the most common Facebook features. Easily switch between News Feed, Messages, Photos and Notifications through the familiar tabbed interface.

Additionally, you will be instantly sent a push notification whenever you receive a message from another Echofon for Facebook. Get your friends to use Echofon for Facebook and you can exchange Facebook messages, just like SMS.

It’s easy to do common Facebook tasks such as read your News Feed, comment on your friend’s statuses and photos, send and receive messages, post status updates with photos and videos and check your notifications.

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Echofon version 2.5 for iPhone is now available on the App Store. We have added the most-requested feature to the free version: support for push and sync.

When using the free version of Echofon on your iPhone, you will be instantly sent a push notification whenever you receive a direct message or mention from another Echofon user. The sender can use the latest version of Echofon on either their Mac (version 0.96), Firefox (version 1.9.4) or iPhone (version 2.5). Get your friends to use Echofon, and you can replace SMS with Twitter's direct messages!

The free version of Echofon now also allows unread syncing. If you use Echofon for Mac or Firefox on your computer, it will keep unread tweets in sync with your iPhone.

Users of Echofon Pro can use the new SMS-like notifications too: a mention or direct message from another Echofon is pushed to their iPhone instantaneously. As before, they also get push notifications for direct messages or mentions from any Twitter app, or the Twitter website. We are also making push and sync for Echofon Pro faster with this version. You will receive notification of mentions and direct messages from non-Echofon sources in 5-10 minutes down from 10-15 minutes.

Learn how to enable push and sync features here: "Echofon Push & Sync Guide"

Read all the differences between the free and pro versions of Echofon here: "Echofon for iPhone"

We are working on lots of new things, including support for the new Twitter features such as lists and retweet. Look for those soon! We also have a completely new app coming soon to the App Store. Follow us on Twitter, @echofon for the latest updates.

Echofon version 2.5 for iPhone is now available on the App Store. We have added the most-requested feature to the free version: support for push and sync.

When using the free version of Echofon on your iPhone, you will be instantly sent a push notification whenever you receive a direct message or mention from another Echofon user. The sender can use the latest version of Echofon on either their Mac (version 0.96), Firefox (version 1.9.4) or iPhone (version 2.5). Get your friends to use Echofon, and you can replace SMS with Twitter's direct messages!

The free version of Echofon now also allows unread syncing. If you use Echofon for Mac or Firefox on your computer, it will keep unread tweets in sync with your iPhone.

Users of Echofon Pro can use the new SMS-like notifications too: a mention or direct message from another Echofon is pushed to their iPhone instantaneously. As before, they also get push notifications for direct messages or mentions from any Twitter app, or the Twitter website. We are also making push and sync for Echofon Pro faster with this version. You will receive notification of mentions and direct messages from non-Echofon sources in 5-10 minutes down from 10-15 minutes.

Learn how to enable push and sync features here: "Echofon Push & Sync Guide"

Read all the differences between the free and pro versions of Echofon here: "Echofon for iPhone"

We are working on lots of new things, including support for the new Twitter features such as lists and retweet. Look for those soon! We also have a completely new app coming soon to the App Store. Follow us on Twitter, @echofon for the latest updates.

Good news everyone, after some initial problems, the updated TweetDeck app for the iPhone is available now from the AppStore.

Here's a rundown of some of the great new features we have for you in this release :

Facebook integration

You can now access your Facebook account as well as your Twitter account to ensure you always stay connected with your friends while mobile. Add Facebook columns, update your status, write on your walls, comment & like... all from within the app.

Video uploading

You can now share videos while on the move. The TweetDeck app allows you to send a videos to both Twitter and Facebook thanks to the built-in 12 Seconds functionality. You can take a video direct with the camera in your iPhone 3GS, or upload a video already stored on your phone. Just remember that any video uploaded will be truncated after 12 seconds to keep things simple.

Landscape compose mode

Need a bigger keyboard when composing your updates? Switch to the landscape keyboard and type away!

Trending Topics

Always be up to date with what's hot in the Twitterverse with the new Twitter trends feature. You can now view the Twitter trending topics in the app and can quickly create a search column to track the tweets that are hitting the big time right now.

Tweets Nearby column

You will always know when your Twitter friends are close, thanks to the new Tweets Nearby column. Using the GPS in your iPhone you can view tweets from everyone within a configurable range of your current location.

Address Picker

You'll never again have to struggle to type @replies correctly, thanks to the new address picker function. One touch will bring up a list of your most active friends. Touch the name of the friend you want to @reply to and their ID will be added to your tweet.

Save Draft

Need to make a phone call or check your email while composing an epic update? Just touch Cancel then Save to keep your message as a draft. Next time you return to the compose window your masterpiece will still be there waiting to be completed.

Open in Safari

Do you ever wish that you could open links direct in the iPhone Safari browser? Well now you can. Just open the link as normal then touch the Safari button to close TweetDeck and open the web page in you iPhone's browser instead.

bit.ly account support

You can now add your bit.ly account details into the iPhone app just like you can in the desktop version. This allows you to ensure all links that you shorten through the iPhone TweetDeck are stored in your own bit.ly account.

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There are lots of very interesting things happening in the world of TweetDeck at the moment. Here's a quick update on some of the biggies...

Getting listed

As Twitter start to roll out their newest invention, Twitter Lists, to the whole Twitterverse, here at TweetDeck we are getting very excited about what this means for the future development of TweetDeck. And let me tell you, that future is looking very interesting!

There is rightfully a lot of buzz around Lists, with people wondering what this means for the groups that they have already defined in TweetDeck. Our advice to you right now is to just do what feels right. If you want to create Lists, go ahead! Because, although you can't access these lists in TweetDeck just yet, we are integrating Lists right into the heart of the application. 

While we're not saying exactly how we're integrating lists just yet - hey, we all need a few secrets! - be happy in the knowledge that we are integrating lists into TweetDeck. And as you would expect, we're not just planning any old run-of-the mill integration...oh no. We think you'll find that what we have planned for Lists is going to take your social media experience with TweetDeck to new heights.

So for now, if you're one of the people who has Lists enabled on their Twitter account, feel free to create and subscribe on the twitter.com website. You could even start with this one: http://twitter.com/TweetDeck/team, which contains all the folk here in the Batcave.

And don't worry, we'll soon be ready with a TweetDeck release that will make your Lists come alive!

Something special this way comes...

There is a one-off special-edition of TweetDeck, coming your way in the next couple of weeks. The details will remain a mystery for now, but we can say that this will be our most exciting "branded" edition yet.

All will be revealed soon...

We submit!

Do you have an iPhone or an iPod Touch? If so, keep an eye on the AppStore, because we have just submitted an updated version of the TweetDeck iPhone app for review by Apple. We will update you with more details of what's new in this version very soon, so watch this space!

You are the Champions

And finally, we want to say a big "Thank you!" to our TweetDeck Champions.

This dedicated band of loyal TweetDeckers helped us test our latest release and gave us some great feedback prior to go-live. We are really grateful for all their hard work and look forward to getting them all involved in testing the next set of exciting new features coming up in v0.32. 

If you consider yourself something of a TweetDeck expert and would like to become a TweetDeck Champion, drop a tweet to me (@richardbarley) and we'll have a chat.

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We love getting your feedback. The ideas which you give us and the requests for changes or new features in TweetDeck really give us a buzz. Especially when we think we can really make ideas work and start to implement them. So imagine the excitement in the TweetDeck office just recently while we have been working on three of the most-requested features over recent months: improved notifications, keyboard navigation and Twitter follower management.
 
To see what we have come up with, head over to http://www.tweetdeck.com now to download version 0.31.
 
See who's new without leaving TweetDeck

We have introduced a new column type - New Followers. This column will display your most recent new Twitter followers and allow you to perrform all the actions you would expect, including View profile, Follow, Unfollow, Block, Report spam and Add to Group...all without having to leave the comfort of your TweetDeck screen!
 
Cut out the noise with configurable notifications

TweetDeck has always been the best way to organise your social networking updates through the use of groups and searches, giving you unlimited columns in which to view your Twitter, Facebook & MySpace updates and more. But we know that there are some updates that are more important to you than others. You might read every tweet in your "All-Star Tweeters" group column without fail, but maybe your "Old School Friends" Facebook column is just one you peruse when you're feeling like laughing at photos of you wearing a school cap and short trousers.

Previously TweetDeck would notify you in the same manner for each of these columns - the famous "chirp" sound and the pop-up notification window. Well, from v0.31 this notification system has been dramatically overhauled, so that it is now highly configurable and features a slick new design.

Some of the new features are:

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We have added Echofon for Mac to our Echofon family. You can now enjoy the simple and clean beauty of Echofon on your Mac desktop.

Echofon for Mac:

• is a fully native Mac application
• is easy to use, just like other Echofon applications
• supports sync with Echofon Pro for iPhone. You are only shown tweets you haven’t read yet, no matter where you read them

Currently the sync works only with the pro version of Echofon for iPhone, but we are planning to make it available in the free version of Echofon for iPhone in the near future. Since Echofon (formerly known as TwitterFon and TwitterFox) has been downloaded more than five million times to date, we have to be extra careful in rolling out the sync feature so that our sync server works as smoothly as possible.

Echofon for Mac is free while in beta. The full release and pricing will be announced later this year. You can download beta version from http://echofon.com/twitter/mac/

For the instruction to enable sync, please go to http://echofon.com/push-sync-guide.html

We hope you will enjoy Echofon for Mac. Please let us know what you think!

We have added Echofon for Mac to our Echofon family. You can now enjoy the simple and clean beauty of Echofon on your Mac desktop.

Echofon for Mac:

• is a fully native Mac application
• is easy to use, just like other Echofon applications
• supports sync with Echofon Pro for iPhone. You are only shown tweets you haven’t read yet, no matter where you read them

Currently the sync works only with the pro version of Echofon for iPhone, but we are planning to make it available in the free version of Echofon for iPhone in the near future. Since Echofon (formerly known as TwitterFon and TwitterFox) has been downloaded more than five million times to date, we have to be extra careful in rolling out the sync feature so that our sync server works as smoothly as possible.

Echofon for Mac is free while in beta. The full release and pricing will be announced later this year. You can download beta version from http://echofon.com/twitter/mac/

For the instruction to enable sync, please go to http://echofon.com/push-sync-guide.html

We hope you will enjoy Echofon for Mac. Please let us know what you think!