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Self Branded Twitter App Released By Ashton Kutcher

Ashton Kutcher, the actor and former fashion model with over 6 million Twitter followers, has released his own Twitter app for the Mac and Windows. A.plus was developed in partnership with UberMedia and uses Adobe AIR, a cross-platform runtime environment, which makes it ineligible for distribution via the Mac App Store. The app is available is available to download free here.

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    •    View timeline, mentions, messages
    •    View saved searches, favorites, and lists
    •    Search for tweets
    •    Save searches
    •    Search for people
    •    Delete tweets
    •    Edit your account information
    •    Change your avatar
    •    Follow lists
    •    Create lists
    •    View full profile information of any tweeter
    •    Tweet shrink – save space by turning tweets into txt speak
    •    Tweet over 140 characters
    •    Auto-fill @mentions while composing
    •    Link shortener
    •    Tweet images and videos
    •    Temporarily mute hashtags and users
    •    Email tweets
    •    Retweet and retweet with comment
    •    Pop out columns – tweet and search directly from popout columns so you don’t have to stop what you’re working on to follow your streams

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Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)