twibble - a twitter client with Maps and GPS

[thilo]

I just finished a new version of twibble - a twitter client mainly for the N95 and other phones supporting the Java Location API. With the current version you can see where your friends are in a map on the mobile device. You can get it here:
twibble - a GPS enabled twitter client for the Nokia N95

[pseudofinn]

Very cool, thanks!

[Mechdon]

Originally Posted by thilo

I just finished a new version of twibble - a twitter client mainly for the N95 and other phones supporting the Java Location API. With the current version you can see where your friends are in a map on the mobile device. You can get it here:
twibble - a GPS enabled twitter client for the Nokia N95

Cool....I have a couple of questions though:

1) Is twitter required in order to run twibble?
2) How much "network traffic" does twibble generates? I'm worried it may be expensive.

Cheers

[thilo]

1) yes, you do need a twitter account.
2) unfortunately you always should be worried when using the net if you don't have a data plan/flat rate for your mobile. twibble downloads the tweets of your friends and direct messages as returned by the twitter api. Given that a tweet may contain up to 140 characters you may end up with some traffic. A (yahoo!) map is around 50-100k I believe. Once the tweets are downloaded twibble only get the newest from twitter (via the If-modified-since http header). And it's always a good idea to check if your network connections have been closed properly after you quit an application that accesses the net.
hth, thilo

[Mechdon]

Thanks thilo