Tweetmic is a new iPhone app that allows you to upload audio to Twitter. I guess you’d call it ‘Tweetcasting’?

Slowed down by all that time consuming typing and spell checking (it is a whole 140 characters, after all)? This app combines two things loved by almost everyone: Twitter and the sound of their own voice.

At a mere buck for the app and unlimited unrestricted uploads, Tweetmic could be on every iPhone and iPod touch very soon.

Twitter is text. Podcasts are audio. Twitter and the people that love it are flexible, but will Tweetmic bend the relationship just too far?

You may have noticed that iPhone apps generally aren’t featured here at goodBETAbest, and for good reason too. In much the same way as you wouldn’t go to your local butcher to buy two litres of Castrol for your Mustang, it just isn’t what we do here. There are a million other sites that love iPhone apps much more than I do – and power to them all. This is why I was relcutant to review Tweetmic, which is – you guessed it – a new iPhone app. However, I recanted and decided to shell out a buck to download the app to my phone and pen this review.

“Why,” I hear you ask? Because this app is poised to revolutionise the way that we use Twitter by bringing together two of our favourite things: real time updates and the sweet dulcet tones of our own voices.

Tweetmic sets out to do one thing only, but it’s a biggie: this app allows you to record audio tweets and publish them to your Twitter account. This has the potential to make podcasting accessible to everyone with an iPhone without the need for mixing decks, microphones, hosting accounts and RSS feeds. Also, the spoken word has something that text will never have. Let’s face it: you can’t always get across your message in 140 characters. Text is already limited by not being particularly good at conveying emotion, let alone resticting it down to the length of a standard SMS. With Tweetmic you have emotion at your disposal. Got cut off in traffic? Turn a “Just got cut off in traffic! Grrrr! ” tweet into 45 seconds of pure unadulterated audio fury. Want to tell the world about what a great night out you’re having? Instead of fat-fingering your keyboard, gush out a slurred message and take your followers on your special Tequila soaked journey through the power of the sound of your own voice.

The application itself, true to iPhone form is simple, intuitive and looks like a million dollars on screen. Likewise, the actual process of uploading audio is a breeze: a very quick setup process links the application to your Twitter account and uploading your recording is as easy as typing out a quick intro and hitting the ‘Publish’ button.

Once inside your Twitter account, Tweetmic uploads are displayed as a regular post with a link to listen to the recording, openinig in a new window. The audio quality is first rate and the playback controls are minimalist and do exactly what you expect them to do. Particularly impressive is Tweetmic’s complete unrestricted server use and upload amount. Want to dictate the complete works of Charles Dickens? Sure thing, friend. Sit back, hit the record button and start with “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

The application itself is hard to fault. The only thing I would want to see is a drop down box of often-used Tweetmic descriptions. Currently every recording needs to be introduced by a desciption that is manually tapped out each time you want to publish audio. That’s great if every recording is completely unrelated, but what if you upload the same themed recording daily? I would like to be able to select from a previously typed description instead of having to bash out the same description every time I want to post a similar recording.

The real question though is whether Twitter and its users are adaptable enough to accommodate this very different type of tweeting. Will it be a matter of “Tweets are Tweets and Podcasts are Podcasts and never the twain shall meet?” Perhaps. But if we have learnt anything from the plethora of Twitter mods, extensions, variations and applications out there, it is that Twitter is as flexible as an ex-Soviet bloc gymnast and does much more than just host 140 characters of you-this-second.

Tweetmic’s business model is supported by application downloads from the iTunes app store.

I don’t often gush, but Tweetmic is set to be my favourite app on my iPhone. If you love Twitter and want to take your relationship to the next level, then this app is a dollar very well spent.

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