Gravity (Twitter client)

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Gravity was a Twitter and social networking client for Symbian smartphones. Apart from Twitter it also connected to StatusNet, Facebook, Foursquare, Google reader, Sina Weibo and YouTube. [1] [2] [3] It was developed by Jan Ole Suhr. [4]

In 2017 an Android based version of Gravity has been released. Due to licensing issues it just offers Twitter and a RSS reader.

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References

  1. "Symbian Twitter client Gravity releases version 1.5 alpha". intomobile.com. 23 December 2010. Retrieved 2017-09-16.
  2. Kiss, Jemima (6 April 2010). "App of the Day: Gravity, the Symbian Twitter client | Media". The Guardian. Retrieved 2017-09-16.
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