Comments on: Quick App: Boxcar Push Notification for Tweetie and Twitterrific iPhone Twitter Clients

By: Omar Celadon

Omar Celadon — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:32:13 +0000

Thanks for posting, i like it. I need some time to think about this

By: Steve Bostedor

Steve Bostedor — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:28:48 +0000

We will be interviewing the developer of boxcar on The App Show this Sunday at 4:00PM Eastern Time at http://www.theappshow.com/live – enjoy!

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:51:14 +0000

I’d really like to see the option to be able to choose certain people I follow to be pushed to me so I could go away with SMS updates.

By: jbrandonf

jbrandonf — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:30:26 +0000

For some reason I don’t think the Icon Factory will supply PNSfor twitterific as they would have to build their own servers for PNS to work. An app that already has that structure in place, like Twinkle (ugh), coulée implement Push much more easily.

By: Megen

Megen — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:15:56 +0000

I have issues with Boxcar randomly working. iTweetReply works faster and more consistently and leaves badge icons. You can reply from within it (doesn’t open Tweetie/Twittelator). Downside: you lose your tweet if something happens while you’re writing it.

By: uphomer

uphomer — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:06:03 +0000

@thekevinmonster: thanks for the info.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:46:30 +0000

This still doesn’t sound as good as what I’ve envisioned for a Push-enabled twitter client. I imagine that a perfect implementation would allow you to specify what kind of notification you’re sent depending on the kind of message. For instance, for a simple mention/public reply, I could set it to be simply a badge. But I could set it to send an alert when I get a DM. I could be mistaken, but it doesn’t sound like this gives you that kind of flexibility.

By: fassy

fassy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:21:29 +0000

Presumably, this works by Tweetie/Twitterific having registered some protocol handler, and then Boxcar invokes that tweetie:// sort of NSURL. I doubt Apple would want/care to break that mechanism, since plenty of apps in the app store use it, but Tweetie certainly could break the specific Boxcar->Tweetie link just by changing their handler registration in a future version. (Assuming, of course, my hair-brained speculation on how Boxcar works is correct.)

By: thekevinmonster

thekevinmonster — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:22:36 +0000

@uphomer: you don’t have any apps that use notifications, or don’t have them set to use notifications. Once you set up at least one app to use notifications, the option appears.

By: uphomer

uphomer — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:12:27 +0000

are push notification available on the 3G OS 3.0 or only on the 3GS? My 3G (running OS 3.0) does not have a ‘notifications’ option in the setting.