Tuesday, June 30, 2009

TweetMic - inexpensive Twitter app for tweetcasting

About TweetMic: "TweetMic is a simple and intuitive Twitter client app for the iPhone that allows you to make high-quality audio recordings or 'Tweetcasts' and publish them directly to Twitter. There is no limit to how much you can record and you don't need to sign up for any additional service to start using TweetMic. ... Just link TweetMic to your Twitter account and start publishing. You don't need to sign up for any additional service or give any information about yourself. It's that simple. You can easily create recordings and review them before publishing. From within the app you can review and listen to all the audio tweets that you have published. Your recordings are securely hosted on our cloud servers and are not removed unless you delete them. You can manage your published tweets by logging into tweetmic.com using your Twitter credentials."

Note: from TweetMic Google Group, Twitpocalypse thread (Jun 13, 7:36 pm):

"TweetMic is currently experiencing problems due to the Twitpocalypse bug. Publishing from Tweetmic may give time out or connection errors due to the bug. For the most part your recordings are being successfully received by our TweetMic servers but are unable to publish directly to Twitter. Where possible we will be sending affected users a copy of their lost Twitpocalypse recordings from our account @tweetmicSAVE. This way you have your recordings and you can retweet them from your account if so desired. We apologize for the inconvenience and assure you we are doing everything to remedy the situation with all possible speed. Please update TweetMic as soon as an update is available in the App Store. More info on this bug is at http://www.twitpocalypse.com/. Follow @tweetmicapp for news and updates."

While my first tweecast hasn't been published yet, I have confidence the problems will be resolved soon. Visiting a TweetMic user's page on the Web, I can see how recordings can be embedded and shared. Very cool:
 
Stay tuned!