Friends keep Tweeting on fring

LONDON, 30 March 2009, fring today launched its next generation Twitter 2.0 Add-on, boasting a range of new functionality, harnessing all of Twitter’s exciting social features, and enabling friends to share their Tweeting experiences with each other from their mobiles.

In response to feedback from fringsters and the phenomenal explosion of Twitter since it was first mobilized on fring two years ago, the all new Twitter 2.0 Add-on for fring includes the ability to Tweet from directly inside fring, to view other Twitter profiles, check-out your own followers and see who’s following you, as well as view and include links.

A new keyword search enables you to keep a close eye on a particular topic or story, and track its developments in Twitterland.

There’s a cool new look and feel to the user interface making it even easier to tweet from inside fring, with optional notifications of new Tweets as they arrive, with or without a sound alert so fring can let you twitter away silently without interrupting anyone.

And there is more: fring has also released the source code to the new Twitter 2.0 Add-on, and additional add-ons. Now, the web developers community can see fring API in action, re-use the code and mashup their own social experiences with fring.

Avi Shechter, fring’s CEO and co-founder, commented: “The new fring Twitter 2.0 add-on represents the evolving development of mobile social functionality, designed to enable friends to interact, share experiences and stay connected via their mobile device, the ultimate social platform.”

There are two ways to get the new Twitter 2.0 add-on for fring: Windows Mobile fringsters go to the add-ons tab inside fring, unsubscribe from the old Twitter & re-subscribe to the new Add-on. Symbian users, simply download the new fring version 3.37.20 first, then unsubscribe from the old Twitter & re-subscribe to the new Add-on.

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fring™ is an award-winning mobile internet community and communication service that allows friends to connect, share experiences and enhance their communities together from their mobile device. They do this using a combination of proprietary fring utilities and the internet’s most popular social and community applications including Skype®, Facebook®, MSN® Messenger, GoogleTalk TM, Twitter, Yahoo!TM, AIM®, ICQ®, Orkut®, Last.fm)

fring is 100% free with no subscription costs; consumers simply pay for the data they use under their existing mobile operator agreement.fring is completely PC independent, it requires no additional hardware, has no geographical or location limitations and operates on any available mobile internet connection: 3G, Wi-Fi, GPRS, EDGE & Wimax.

fring has experienced phenomenal global adoption, with millions of users now enjoying the fring experience in more than 200 countries worldwide and more than half a million new fringsters joining the fring community each month. fring operates on Symbian Series 60 devices, Samsung S60, iPhone & iPod Touch,Sony Ericsson UIQ Smartphones, Windows Mobile, J2ME, Linux Mobile & Intel’s Moblin devices, which currently represent more than 1,000 mobile handsets (the full list is available at http://fring.com)

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Gil Regev, Marketing Communications Manager at fring™
gilr@fring,com, Tel: (+972) 54-2687906