The Social Radio: Twitter Read to You App Reviews

The best app for Twitter!

Ive been looking for something like this for quite some time. My only suggestion would be to include an option that only plays tweets between songs and make it universal.

great app! suggestion: i would like to be able to see the tweets as its reading it. if you hear something you like with a link you should be able to pause the audio & click on the link. looking forward to more features. thanks for the app.

This has so many possibilities. Wonderful.

I love this app so cool amazing awesome..Download now if you using twitter..thank you for this great app..

I can drive and be connected with my twitter community ! This app save my life!!

I was looking for something like this for such a long time! Could you please set a volume control button for the tweets reading?

This App rocks! Great!

I just wish there were more apps that worked like this.

Updates to play counts played from my library on the iPhone.

I have downloaded and deleted this app twice and tried multiple times to make it work but it never does! It stays on the welcome screen and will do nothing else.

I hate reading reviews about how good an app is when it wont work on my phone! I have downloaded several times and cannot get past the welcome screen.

This is a great example of an app that should have happened a long time ago. Very good execution!

Love using this app while driving to and from work. Saves me so much time, and I can still listen to music while listening to my Twitter feed.

Convenient and time saving. Had it for nearly a year, and I still use it daily. Well done on this app!

If the wonderful app

After trying Winston and finding it totally useless (doesnt read the body of the tweet, just a "summary" of keywords), I found this. The music integration is a nice idea, which you can turn off if you dont want it. Well designed app, good job.

I love it!

I absolutely adore this app. I follow too many people (more than 2,000) for it to keep up with my timeline -- it just keeps reading and reading and reading, never stopping, and inevitably falls behind -- but thats not how I use it anyway. Instead, I use it mostly to listen to my @mentions during car trips and such. Listening to @mentions, as such, isnt a specifically supported feature, but it can be done easily by creating a search for my own Twitter handle. I also occasionally set up a search for other terms. This works GREAT, and Id say it handles the more difficult aspects of tweet-reading surprisingly well, probably getting things like multi-word hashtags, weird punctuation/emoticons, etc. right 80% of the time (and when it gets them wrong, its often in a hilarious way). I really, really wish, though, that there was a "Never" option for the "Still Active Alert." When Im listening to my own @mentions, or an obscure search term, a loooong time can go by between tweets, and Id like to be able to listen to my music or podcasts without a nagging interruption every 5 minutes announcing that The Social Radio is "waiting for new tweets." Its sort of like the voice you get every few minutes on hold, interrupting the elevator music, and briefly getting your hopes up that someone is finally going to pick up, only to say something unhelpful like "Thank you for holding. An operator will be with you shortly." I *know* Im on hold, and I *know* The Social Radio is waiting for new tweets -- it doesnt need to keep telling me that! That 10-second interruption, basically every other song, is really irritating. I only want to be interrupted when there are new tweets for me to listen to. :) If, for some reason, its technically difficult to add a "Never" option, please at least add a lengthier time period -- every 15 or 30 or 60 minutes -- as an option, in addition to the current options of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 minutes. Indeed, I cant imagine why anyone would use those short time periods; I think a more sensible menu of options would be 1, 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 minutes, or something like that. A reminder every 30 or 60 minutes, or even 15, would be much more tolerable than 5. Also, someone mentioned having an option to wait until *between* songs to read the tweets that came in during that song. Thats a brilliant idea, if it can be pulled off. (It should be an option, of course, not the default behavior.) Another idea, sort of the opposite: have an option to *pause* the song/podcast while tweets are being read, then resume it when the tweet-reading is over. It would also be great if the search feature could be made to properly support boolean searches, which it doesnt right now. So for instance, since I have two active Twitter accounts, @brendanloy and @MileHighMids, and since my friends and I often use the hashtag #TMM9, I could search for all tweets mentioning "brendanloy OR MileHighMids OR #TMM9." That sort of search doesnt work right now; itd be awesome if it did. Itd also be cool if there was a feature to submit text-to-speech translation "bugs," so the developers could more effectively "learn" from the problems that users experience in real life. Id use that feature sometimes, if it existed, particularly when I encouter the same error repeatedly. For instance, the app mispronounces BYU, the university, as "byoo." It misreads "#lastman" -- a hashtag that is used in a few different contexts, always meaning "last man" -- as "lastmun" instead of "last man." It doesnt know that "Mmm" (as in, the sound you make when something is delicious) should be pronounced instead of spelled out. Those are a few very minor examples, not to complain about those specific issues, but just to make the point that a built-in system for ongoing user feedback could help you catch and fix these things. But anyway, Im nitpicking now. The ONLY thing preventing me from giving this app 5 stars is the "Still Active Alert" problem. Until thats fixed, it gets 4 stars (Id give it 4 1/2 stars if I could). Fix the "Still Active Alert" issue, and I will not only give it 5 stars, but I will sing the praises of this app from the mountaintops to every fellow Twitter addict who will listen. :) Thanks for a great concept and a well-executed app!

Ever wanted to tweet and drive? Listen to your twitter timeline while listening to your favorite ipod tunes. I use is every day to commute and couldnt be happier. Great app.