If you happen to use PockeTwit to read and write your tweets, you should start the application and make sure check for updates is ticked with the options. Re-start if necessary.
Alternatively, head on over to here to grab version 0.82a . If you prefer, just grab the CAB to copy to your device and install from here.
Because of the changes Twitter made to their authentication and application verification system, namely OAuth being the only acceptable method, we had to wait for the writer of this (FREE!!!) program to update his code. This took a while, but TBH, the program is free, works like a dream again, and matches 98% of my tweeting needs. If it had YouTube access for video uploads (like TinyTwitter that I tried to use temporarily, but also had OAuth problems with) or possibly TwitVid, I could finally dump Qik. I just checked over at PockeTwit’s User Voice Page, and someone had already requested that enhancement. Added my vote.
Anyway, once the update is installed, start up PockeTwit, goto the Settings menu on the left, and select Accounts. Assuming it is already showing your Twitter account, click on Edit Selected, and follow the on screen instructions. One other person reported a problem with OAuth verification, it might be worth temporarily changing your phone’s default browser to Pocket Internet Explorer if this occurs. No reason I can think of that this would be the issue, but worth a shot. On an unrelated note, if you get general application errors, make sure your .NET CF is up to date. (Basically 3.5 or 3.7).
Now I just need to see how easy the program will be to operate on a device without a D-Pad, like the HTC Touch Pro 2 soon to be arriving.
September 8th, 2010 2:47 am
Chris – Thanks for the post, I’ve written a bit about the OAuth problems on the new PockeTwit Posterous blog (http://pocketwit.posterous.com/).
There seems to be some flakiness to OAuth verification over mobile connections, sadly.
I’m really interested in updating the media handling side of PockeTwit, let’s just hope we have time. Posterous will take audio and video, we just need to make PockeTwit upload those files to it.
September 8th, 2010 5:02 pm
I’ll make sure I monitor the posterous site for PockeTwit news 🙂
Would video uploaded to Posterous be easy enough to then embed on a blog (like this one) do you know?
September 8th, 2010 5:08 pm
You can get Posterous to auto-post to YouTube (and flickr etc), if it wasn’t possible to embed directly.
And it works OK on a touchscreen phone without a D-pad, I’m using it on a Touch HD. Might be worth turning clickable links of though, I find my fat fingers accidently launch things while scrolling.
September 14th, 2010 11:37 pm
Cool, assuming there isn’t too much loss with any re-encoding involved between posterous and YouTube, this sounds ideal. HUGE relief to know the lack of a d-pad/scroll wheel won’t bugger up my use of PockeTwit, I was considering using one of those accelerometer apps to scroll the tweets instead, but I could see that getting boring very quickly!