SneakyTweet for iPhone

21.06.2010

These services are pretty standard in all good Twitter clients, but SneakyTweet has a few unique extras. Like many other apps, it uses geolocation but you're also able to disguise your location by typing in where you'd like to be. Hopefully none of your followers really thinks you're tweeting from Antarctica.

Another unique feature is Sneaky Tweet's Streaming-Tweet capability. This option is particularly welcome--I've often found myself debating whether to publish a two-part tweet in order, or write the sections backward so they show up in a logical order on my feed. SneakyTweet lets you type tweets as long as you want, then breaks them up into multiple messages that read top-to-bottom.

The app's last--and sadly, most unintuitive--special feature is TweetSecret, a function that allows you to protect your tweets so that only certain followers with your magic code can read them. When I submitted an encoded tweet using TweetSecret, though, it showed up as a garbled message with a lock icon next to it.

You can tap the blue arrow within the app and see your profile with a box for a decode key. Originally I thought it was a place to set my code, so I typed something in. But I still couldn't read my own encoded tweets, and when I tried to delete the code, the app wouldn't let me.

Ordinarily, this is where I'd consult the help section, but SneakyTweet doesn't have one. There are no tips in the App Store and the SneakyTweet Support link within the store is broken as of this writing (though it's easy enough to add ".com" to the improperly entered URL). After all that, you'll learn that the Applgasm site's only support involves a demo that still doesn't explain where to enter someone's code in order to see encrypted tweets. And, of course, there's certainly nowhere to unlock tweets from Twitter's Website.