Loren Brichter
iOS developer who made Tweetie and Letterpress and invented pull-to-refresh.
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- Loren Brichter is an American software developer.
- He worked on the first iPhone at Apple, then founded Atebits and made Tweetie, the Twitter app where pull-to-refresh first appeared.
- Twitter bought Tweetie and Atebits in 2010.
- After leaving Twitter he made the word game Letterpress.
Key facts
- Born
- 15 November 1984, Manhattan, New York1
- Education
- Tufts University, degree in electrical engineering with a minor in computer science1
- Apple
- From 2006 to 2007, on a five-person team making the first iPhone's graphics hardware and software work together1
- Atebits
- Founded it in 2007; released Scribbles (2007) and Tweetie (2008); re-founded it after leaving Twitter1
- Pull-to-refresh
- Created the gesture; it first shipped in Tweetie 2.0 for iPhone1
- Worked there from 2010 to November 2011, after it bought Tweetie and Atebits1
- Letterpress
- Released the multiplayer word game in 2012; sold to Solebon in early 20161
- Facebook Paper
- Helped Mike Matas on the app, released in 20141
- Award
- Apple Designer of the Year award, 20091
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