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Today atebits released Tweetie 2 [App Store, $2.99], the next edition of the wildly popular Twitter client. This all new version has been rewritten from scratch and includes additions such as full landscape support, caching of your timeline, drafts, TextExpander support [App Store, $4.99], Favrd integration, and so much more!

You can check out our full review of Tweetie 2 in the Reviews section.

Loren Brichter announced today that the next major release of Tweetie for iPhone has entered the final development stages and will soon be released. Tweetie 2.0 has been completely re-written and comes with many new features including full landscape mode, video support, drafts, TextExpander support, and more.

SlashGear reports that Apple has reversed their decision to stop allowing developers to issue promo codes for apps rated ages 17+. This means that developers of apps that include web content, such as Twitter or IM clients, will now be able to give out promo codes. Apple has yet to clarify their reasoning for both their initial decision or why they changed their mind.

Today Polar Bear Farm released Tweet Push [App Store], an application that pushes new tweets to your iPhone or iPod touch. Right now when new direct messages or mentions come in, Tweet Push will alert you with the message "You have new tweets!" The cool thing is that Tweet Push works along side your favorite Twitter app to display the tweets. After selecting which app you'd like to use (it must be installed), tapping "View" will bring you to the selected app!

In a few days, Polar Bear Farm plans to roll out a management page which will let you receive all tweets from your timeline (not just mentions and DMs), change how often your tweets are checked, customize the notification sound, and preview the text from your last received tweet.

A new app called Tweet Reel is promising to change the way you share video on your iPhone 3GS. Dubbed the TwitPic of video, the iPhone app allows you to record video on your iPhone 3GS and attach it to a tweet to be uploaded, just like other image sharing services do. It also supplies an interface to embed and share videos on the web and elsewhere. It's a little like YouTube, except you can type out the tweet yourself instead of having YouTube generate it for you. You can download Tweet Reel from the App Store for $2.99 (3GS only).
[via Mashable]

Augmented reality apps are quickly becoming the next big thing, even if none currently exist yet for the iPhone. The latest concept is TwittaRound, which combines your world with that of the Twitterverse, showing nearby recent tweets overlaid on top of the horizon using GPS, the compass and accelerometers, and access to Twitter. Video after the break.

The makers of TweedDeck, the Adobe Air Twitter client for Mac, Windows, and Linux, released TweetDeck for the iPhone and iPod touch earlier today. Unlike other twitter clients for the iPhone, it lets you create and easily switch between columns to keep track of different categories, follow topics in real time with saved searches, and view notifications for new tweets. It also adds a handy new shake-to-refresh feature. It's available as a free download in the App Store.

If you spent any time on Twitter last Friday, then you probably heard about the Twitocalypse, and how it caused a bunch of the most popular Twitter clients to stop working. In the aftermath, Craig Hockenberry, developer of the popular client Twitterrific, explained on his blog the need for Apple to have a system in place for important updates that need priority approval, should a more serious event happen in the future.

Apple's App Store approval policies have been strange in the past, but this is bordering on the idiotic. It was reported earlier today that Tweetie 1.3, an update to the Twitter client of choice for the iPhone Alley staff, was rejected from the App Store earlier today. The grounds? Displaying "offensive language" in the Twitter trends search view.

Tomorrow, U.S. President Elect Barak Obama is set to be sworn in as President, and a handful of iPhone apps are hoping to be part of your Obama experience. Change (US Politics) (not to be confused with the Change app) iPhone app from Appible, LLC, released last week, lets you vote on your disapproval or approval of his administration's policies on various issues (which you can change as your opinion changes), as well as view other people's votes on a 3D globe, view news for each issue from Yahoo News, and post comments on them to Twitter (adds the #changeapp hashtag to each post).