Twitter Apps for the iPhone: Birdhouse
If you’re a writer, you may want a little more time to write your tweets than the normal person. If you are trying to be incredibly witty within 140 characters, that doesn’t usually happen on the spur of the moment, so you might want to save your tweet until it’s perfect and ready to publish. Birdhouse is the perfect way to write and rewrite your precious tweets.
Here is a tongue-in-cheek video describing the usefulness of Birdhouse:
Since I have several Twitter accounts to manage (including one for The Gadgets Page), I have found Birdhouse to be a great way to keep track of them all.
The “best” feature is supposed to be the ability to unpublish a tweet. That IS something you can do with this app (as well as on the Twitter site), but that doesn’t mean that no one will have seen it, copied it, or saved it. It will still show up on RSS feeds. Remember, there is no real way to unpublish anything on the Internet.
Birdhouse is not a typical Twitter app. It’s meant to be used for writing only, not keeping up with friends, etc. There is no way to see your friends’ tweets, upload photos, or easily create links to websites.
If you want something to quickly take notes of things you might want to tweet later, but need time to formulate the perfect 140 character response, Birdhouse is a great little app.