Twitter Rival App.net Gets Its Own iOS Client

03.09.2012
A startup that pledges to do Twitter right expanded its reach Saturday when its first app built from scratch for users of the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPhone .

The free iOS app, AppNet Rhino, comes on the heels of the release a week ago of , a free Android program built for the new microblogging network, .

While Rhino isn't the first iOS app to support App.comTweet manager has added such support to it repertoireit was built from the byte up to do so.

Two Croation companies . Planet 1107 coded the app, and Marko Prljic designed it. Features in the offering include:

App.net was founded by Dalton Caldwell, who has a couple of previous startups under his beltiMeem, an online that MySpace bought and subsequently buried and Picplz, a that made the mistake of competing head-to-head with Instagram.

In July, Caldwell launched an ambitious program to fund App.net, which he had been working on for about a year. In Kickstarter fashion, he set out to raise $500,000 in 30 days from investors on the Net. He with 38 hours left on the clock.