Cinema has summer blockbusters; developers have summer open API season. Last year, Facebook. This year Twitter. At least until iPhone season. The latest app Twitter mighta shoulda thought of* is EasyTweets, which allows the obsessive, the Type A scheduler, and/or social media multitasker with more than one Twitter account, to manage his or her Twitter efficiency needs.
I can think of a few reasons one might have multiple Twitter accounts, but not any really good ones. That’s not to say there aren’t, just that good reasons aren’t always required. EasyTweets is a good name as well as concept, too, even if it sounds like it belongs to a kindergarten Halloween bag-snatcher bully. . .but I’ve seriously digressed.
Once an account is created, EasyTweeters—that sort of rolls off the tongue nicely, don’t you think?—can import their Twitter accounts to a central dashboard, upon which they can switch between accounts. In addition, EasyTweeters can schedule their tweets in advance.
Can’t you see it? The next time there’s an iPhone line with no rollercoaster at the end, EasyTweeters can deploy mass tweets advising: “If you’re reading this, I’m still in line, dreaming of a bricked device and a higher phone bill.”
Instead of TinyURL, EasyTweets uses is.gd for URL compression to allow a stretchier 140 characters. It’s a good thing Twitter’s got those engineers gained from Summize; they’ll help so that embarrassing advertised features like “Write a Tweet even if Twitter is down!” and “You can see your ‘Replies’ tab, even if it is disabled on Twitter” aren’t selling points anymore.
Hat tip to Mashable
*That’s not entirely fair to Twitter, I admit. They focused on the most important memetic concept and launched. It takes guts to launch something incomplete, I suppose, and let others finish it for you. On the flip side, with Facebook and Apple and any self-respecting hipster open source pioneer doing it, it’s a bit of a trend. One imagines, too, that not everything can be thought of no matter how many meetings, and there are lots of glory-hungry developers out there looking for their wave to the digital top who’ll work for free, at least for now. So I guess it all works out.
