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.
Not surprisingly, Caldwell has been a critic of Twitter in the past. The Internet's largest vehicle for microblogging would have been better off as an instead of one centered on advertising, he says.
"We believe that advertising-supported social services are so consistently and inextricably at odds with the interests of users and developers that something must be done," Caldwell argues.
That point became painfully obvious to Twitter developers, who have seen the service on their use of its API.
According to Instapaper developer , Twitter's new rules for developers are designed to punish success. He said Twitter is telling developers,"Once you get big enough for us to notice, were going to require you to adhere to more strict, unpublished rules to make sure you don't compete with us or take too much value from our network."
Caldwell says his entry offers the opposite: "We're building a real-time social service where users and developers come first, not advertisers."
Maybe so. But when you don't have advertisers to pay the bills, then users have to pick up the tab. It remains to be seen if that model can be viable.
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