KiTwitts for Nokia N97 review

Posted on June 12, 2009
Filed Under Application

KitTwitts is small free twitter-related application that was just yesterday released for Nokia N97. I say twitter-related, because it is focused on a very narrow task. It allows you to search twitter for a particular keyword or phrase, displays result in a nice “flashy” way and can open the twitter page of a tweet author. I don’t think anybody would use it as the primary or even secondary twitter client, but it may help you spend some minutes in airport looking at what happens on yet another Apple event you want to follow. You can download KitTwitts here.

What you may not notice in the beginning is two small pieces of advertisement above and below the search result. When clicked KiTwitts opens the web browser with the full ad. I guess the real purpose of this application was exactly the proof of concept of how an application could use twitter API and be paid by ads. As a side effect we’ve got a nice application to play with in the free time, but what I really hope for is the full twitter client powered by ads in a similar way. If there is a business model behind, it could be the next big thing in the mobile phone applications.

And by the way, this application doesn’t support the landscape mode at all, you get all sorts of funny effects if you try using in the landscape mode and/or use the hardware keyboard. In fact if you start the application while the device is open, you won’t be able to use the application at all. So despite the fact that it was released for N97, it is really more of a 5800 clone.

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