Sparrow works on iPhone and iPad devices and Mac computers, using simplified interfaces of Twitter clients such as Tweetie or iOS apps as opposed to more traditional email style applications such as Apple Mail or Mozilla Thunderbird.
It also is rebranding "Tweetie" as "Twitter for iPhone", bringing the tool into the fold and stating its "official" Twitter app status. Twitter is now facing the typical and critical issue of in-house vs external apps development for its platform...
Late last night, several blogs were the first to report that Twitter had acquired Atebits, the maker of Tweetie. Peter Kafka of All Things D, a Wall Street Journal blog, posted "Twitter Goes Shopping, Comes Home With Tweetie.
Best Bootstrapped StartUp: atebits (Tweetie) The Third Annual Crunchie Awards have been announced by Tech Crunch and Google and Bing are among the recipients. The awards are given to various areas of the technology field.
