UberTwitter enables ads again & puts out premium version for $4.99

by The PocketBerry Team

20 August 2009 No Comment

Everyone went mad when UberTwitter put out advertisements on their Beta 4 update. In reality, the software is free, so there really is no reason not to expect ads or some way for the creators to monetize accordingly from it. The good news is that if you don’t like the ads, you can go ahead and download a premium version for a one time fee of $4.99 without all the ads. When purchasing the application, you have a year free of updates and will not get prompted to purchase after that year. With that said, it is assumed that you will have to purchase another copy of it in a year if you would like to continue receiving application updates.

Along with that breaking news, UberTwitter has put out a new 0.912 update with the following fixes and addons:

Multiple Accounts – You can now configure multiple accounts, each with their own set of on-device preferences.
You can now BLOCK people!
Video Integration – We have partnered with TwitVid.com to offer you an outstanding video integration.
Goto user – You can now enter twitter users name and go directly to their timeline
URL Shortening – we’ve integrated with bit.ly so you can easily send those long URLs now and not bump up against the 140 limit
MUCH faster photo uploads, significantly improving the user experience.
Use of the internal GPS is now solidly supported with proper fallback to cell tower based location when GPS isn’t available.
Icon Caching If you have and SD card, we will cache avatar icons on the card, increasing the speed of timeline displays and reducing network traffic.
You can now select pictures and videos that have already been take and are on your device. The interface shows the most recent at the top and offers a preview so you can verify it is the picture/video you expected!
When composing a tweet you can now insert symbols from a large selection of commonly available characters such as smiley’s, hearts, etc.
Integrated advertisements – Please note, the ads are there to support the freely distributable version of ÜberTwitter. Users that purchase ÜberTwitter will not have advertisement in their version.
We’ve streamlined the friends and followers lists
You can now see both the number of friends, followers, and tweets sent when viewing the details of a tweet.
Replying to a DM from the timeline will now correctly send a DM and not a regular tweet
Fixed the bug in reply all where it would truncate some twitter user names
Added reply all to the menu when viewing a tweet
Added a menu selection ‘Check for Updates’ to show if there is a new version available.
Fixed a behavior where is you had the advertisement select and retrieved a list of new tweets to your timeline, the selection would then end up at the top, on the ad. It will now end up on the tweet was just below the ad.