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Boxcar brings Twitter push notifications to the iPhone
There are a lot of great Twitter clients for the iPhone, but whether your favorite is Tweetie, Twitterrific, Birdfeed or something else, they're all missing a feature that I find really useful. I'm talking about push notifications, and even the top-shelf Twitter clients don't support them. Although that's likely to change when Twitter finds a workable push solution for developers, an iPhone app called Boxcar has stepped in to fill the gap. Boxcar is a 3-dollar app that polls Twitter for new direct messages and mentions, and notifies you via push when you get one. It doesn't replace your current Twitter client, it actually opens your @s and DMs using Tweetie or Twitterrific. Other clients may be supported soon, but if you don't use one of those two apps already, you should hold off on Boxcar for now. If you do, it might be 3 dollars well spent for you.
Boxcar is not without competition, though. For folks who want Growl notifications pushed from their desktop to an iPhone, whether from a Twitter app, a mail client, or something else, it's worth taking a look at Prowl. If you're willing to leave a Mac Twitter client running while you're out and about with your iPhone, you can achieve the same effect as Boxcar, with a few extra frills.
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LongshotX said 3:47PM on 7-12-2009
Push notifications blow.
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jasontl said 1:36PM on 7-13-2009
got to totally agree with you. i tried iTwitter n the push sucked n seriously drained my battery life.
Nakul Sharma said 11:16PM on 7-12-2009
why is download squad getting spammed by twitter posts. seriously there are a whole lot of them
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Nakul Sharma said 11:19PM on 7-12-2009
is there any way to filter out the twitter posts here on download squad. its like spammed by twitter posts
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