Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

iSkoot Launches Social Beat on Verizon!

Verizon just got social.

We here at iSkoot are VERY pleased to introduce Social Beat, our latest product now available exclusively for Verizon customers in the Verizon Media Store.

In iSkoot’s latest charge to bring internet goodies and social media magic to all mobile phones, Social Beat delivers the top social networks - Facebook, Twitter and MySpace - plus Gmail, Google Talk and RSS feeds from over 50 leading sources on the web. It’s our most advanced feature set to date: users can check their email, IM with friends, comment on, “like,” retweet and @reply to the latest updates in their social networks, view messages on Facebook & MySpace, read @replies on Twitter and get feeds from New York Times, Huffington Post, TMZ, Rotten Tomatoes and Dictionary.com - all within the Social Beat application.

Want to see for yourself? Let us show you around:

Social Beat has launched on 15 top devices at Verizon, with many more coming down the pipeline. For the current list of supported handsets, click here.

Social Beat is iSkoot’s latest foray into the world of integrated social media on mobile, but it isn’t our first. This launch follows the launch of AT&T Social Net, a mobile application that iSkoot developed for AT&T that because available to AT&T’s customers last July.

What’s next on the iSkoot agenda? Only time (and perhaps the occasional blog post) will tell…

In the meantime, check out the newest addition to the iSkoot product family. We’re all very proud of Social Beat and would love to hear what users have to say.

Twitter Reports “Spurious Tweets” Bug

A minor heads-up to Twitter users on Notifier et al.

According to Twitter’s latest status update, they’ve detected a bug whereby you may see tweets in your update stream from people that you don’t actually follow. They are already working to fix the issue.

From their post (updated at 2:15pm PST today):

“This is obviously a significant problem and one we are working hard to address.
We anticipate that it will take several days for us to completely resolve all of the symptoms of this issue. We will update as we make progress.”

You can stay on top of the news on this issue as it breaks here: http://status.twitter.com/, and — of course — on Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitter.

We’ll keep you posted on the iSkoot blog as well. In the meantime, Notifier users - keep an eye out for those errant updates.

(Points to the person who reports the most entertaining surprise tweet? :) )

We Tweet, Therefore We Are

Yes, iSkoot is now on Twitter, joining the ranks of @aplusk , @BarackObama and the like. Fans of iSkoot, come join the fun!

The official iSkoot Twitter page is here.

Get the latest news from iSkoot as it happens, send us your questions, feedback, whatever - it’s an open forum, and another really great way for us to get to know our users. ‘Cause isn’t real time connectivity what we’re all about?

See ya on Twitter, folks.