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Brichter is aware of the issue and has already resolved it, and has resubmitted Tweetie 2 to the App Store for approval.

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Apparently, the reason these geotags are showing up for all tweets (even those not actually geotagged) is that the documentation was a little unclear on how to handle non-geotagged tweets, Brichter says.

Twitter’s Geolocation API Appears To Be Live. But Most Of You Are Lost. MG Siegler 2005

The reason for the nickname is that Tweetie 2 is built on top of the Project Bigbird core, which Atebits developer Loren Brichter first developed for Tweetie for Mac.

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Apparently, the reason these geotags are showing up for all tweets (even those not actually geotagged) is that the documentation was a little unclear on how to handle non-geotagged tweets, Brichter says.

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Brichter has also revealed that he is working on Tweetie 2 for Mac, and that it should be available shortly.

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This means an iPhone Tweetie that is “faster, slimmer, and much more powerful,” as Brichter puts it.

Preview: Tweetie 2 Takes The Best iPhone Twitter App And Ups The Sex Appeal MG Siegler 2005

Brichter says that if all goes to plan, Tweetie 2.1 could hit its final beta testing stage later this week.

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Update: Oh yes, and I have asked Brichter about the all-important Push Notification functionality.

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Brichter also confirmed to me that Tweetie for Mac version 2 will support Lists as well.

Tweetie 2.1 Coming Soon With Retweet, Geolocation, And Some List Support MG Siegler 2005

Brichter plans to submit to the App Store at some point this week, so you can look for it sometime in the next couple of weeks depending on the approval process.

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