Birdhouse App

A few weeks back I decided to drop a whole $3.99 on Birdhouse, an iPhone app that serves a somewhat of a notepad / queuing area for Twitter. It works alongside your favorite twitter application (Tweetie, for me) as a place to jot down your thoughts for future twitter updates. Their marketing write up says that if you are a person who likes to marinate over what to say as opposed to just putting it out there, this is the app for you. As I’m rounding 4,400+ twitter updates (the lions share generating from my iPhone as opposed to a desktop computer) I decided this app may be for me.

It’s difficult to judge the effectiveness of such an application with an unbiased assessment, but I will say I really like it. They suggest if you drop a twitter update at the right now (ie., not 2:00am Wednesday, but rather 9:45am Monday) and take the time to properly tweak and compose it, it may be of more value. I tested that theory on a recent tweet. I wrote (and tweaked over the course of a few weeks) this:
If my mac could do no wrong it would be infatuation. Because I see an occasional flaw I know it’s love.

Within the next hour or so I found that tweet replicated (ie., retweeted) several times.
Here, Here, Here, Here
Here, Here, Here (technically, this is a response… but it still counts).

I surmise that tweet got a reaction, whether by its timing, its composition, or the fact that it was marinated for a week or so before released to the public. Regardless, if you frequently release thoughts at the wrong time (or… feel you need to delay a potentially harsh reaction) I would recommend trying out Birdhouse.

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