How bad can a news organization screw up? It appears that CNN just has again. For reporting on the story of the sale of Atebits’ Tweetie iPhone app to Twitter, CNN.com gets a screenshot of tweetie.com, which has nothing to do with Tweetie app developer Atebits whose URL is http://www.atebits.com.

Oh, CNN. When will you get competent people that will make sure they get the correct info? How about double checking your stories before publishing them?

I’d like to thank @majorh for tweeting this out & bringing it to my attention.

                          

If you haven’t heard yet, Twitter has bought Atebits, the company behind the popular Tweetie iPhone app and Mac desktop application. Twitter plans on making the app their official iPhone app, renaming it “Twitter for iPhone” and making it free (currently $2.99 for the App Store). The story has been making big news around Mac, iPhone, social media, and tech sites since the news broke last night. You can read all of those articles on your own and get the gist of the entire thing.

I haven’t used Tweetie for the iPhone yet, but I have played around with the Mac version. It didn’t like it, although the design of the user interface is nice. I prefer using TweetDeck on the Mac. As for the iPhone, I’ve been using Twittelator Pro for almost 2 years now. I bought the Pro version on a recommendation of a good friend and I was not disappointed. Twittelator Pro was definitely worth the $4.99! I’ve recommended many time over the past 2 years. When Tweetie came out, I didn’t buy it. And when Tweetie 2 came out, I didn’t buy that either. Now that Twitter is going to re-release a new rebranded version of it, I’m willing to at least try it out. I wasn’t going to spend the $2.99 to try it out. I’m quite happy with my Twitterlator Pro. I’ve been very unsatisfied with all other Twitter apps for the iPhone and to blow $2.99 on something I don’t even like using on the Mac just make sense to me. I wasn’t thrilled with TweetDeck for the iPhone, although, as mentioned earlier, I do like it on my desktop.

I think Twitter is making a move to make it’s name more well known and making their own official apps for mobile devices, having already done so for Blackberry devices. I believe it’s a smart move on their part, but I don’t like Tweetie. I am glad that they didn’t buy Twittelator. I wonder what device they’ll do next – Android, Palm, Windows Phone?

This purchase by Twitter is very interesting nonetheless and I’ll be watching for the new Twitter for iPhone app for it’s release to see if it’s popularity continues. And I might even try it out. If you’re like me and wanting to try out Tweetie, just wait.

If you want more info directly from Twitter on all of this, they’ve created a Twitter account (DUH! Of course!) for you to follow called @TwitterMobile.

                          

So, you want to change a name of a Twitter List that you created or maybe delete it altogether? It’s easy to do, although it’s not too apparent for some people. Here’s how you do it:

1. Log into Twitter’s web site. Go to your Home page or your Profile page. On the right side bar you’ll have your lists. Click on the list you want to edit or delete.

2. At the top of this list, just underneath the “Update” button you will see “View list page” (in red box for attention). Click that link.

3. In the top right, just under the Twitter navigation bar, you’ll see “Edit” and “Delete” listed. Click on either to make your changes.

                          

Twittelator Pro. It’s my choice over all of the other iPhone Twitter Apps. I’ve tried many other Twitter apps for the iPhone and I keep coming back to using Twittelator Pro. It’s the ONLY full-featured Twitter app out there for the iPhone.

I had tried out the free version when it first came out and I had my first iPhone (3G). I tried that and two other Twitter apps. Twittelator was very ugly and I didn’t understand it so I used the other apps I had. Eventually those other apps got on my nerves. A friend of mine told me to get the latest update of Twittelator Pro and that it had improved since I had first gotten it. She was right. It was improved and I was happy. I’ve used Twittelator Pro ever since. Of course it’s gone through some more improvements to make the app even better than before!

Here are just a few of those features:

And there are LOADS of more features packed into this great app! If you want to know more, go over to Stone Design to see a complete list of all of the features that Twittelator Pro has! It is well worth $4.99 from the App Store. It’s THE BEST $5 I’ve ever spent in the App Store! If you follow me on Twitter then you know how much I praise Twittelator Pro.

Want another point of view? Check out my friend Seoul Diva for her post about Twittelator Pro.

Related sites:
Twittelator Pro at Stone Design
Twittelator on Twitter