Idan Beck's new iPhone App: Tweet Your Poop

Catchy, what?

Yesterday I got the following email (not one word has been omitted):

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Hey Book of Joe,

I would have said Joe but I don't want to assume. I've been a long time reader of bookofjoe.com and while I was drudging away at my job it used to get me through the day. I have since quit my job and started my own start-up. As a way to learn the iPhone SDK I came up with a silly application called Tweet Your Poop, which allows you to Tweet Your Poop... half way through I realized this is silly enough to work! At that point I invested the time to bring it to the point of a real iPhone app as well as making a free web version.

The iPhone application costs $1 and here is the itunes link to it: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=335625441&mt=8

There is also a free web-version but it is not too friendly with Internet Explorer quite yet (it works fine, just formatting problems): http://www.tweetyourpoop.com

Thanks!
Idan

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SDK... does that stand for Still Doing Knothing?

Just asking, as a card-carrying TechnoDolt™.

And another thing: why is it that Idan chose me to drop — as it were — his App on the world?

I mean, it's not as if I'm prone to bathroom-themed posts.

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Bonus: recommended for ages 9 and up which means over 75% of my readers qualify.

"It can also help young children with a way to deal with what is at first a very scary idea!"

Excellent point: if Freud were alive he would SO recommend Tweet Your Poop to the children he was treating.

Maybe all his patients, seeing as retention issues seem to float to the surface quite often during therapy.

But I digress.

I mean, what could make going more fun than sending a picture of your business to mom so she could ooh and aah?

"Poop tracking to aid with medical issues": once again, an excellent idea; sure beats having to provide a sample for the gastroenterologist....

What's that old saying?..."A picture is worth a thousand turds?"

No?

Not it?

Pretty close, though, huh?

The only thing Idan and I have in common is that bookofjoe gets us through the day.

From my third year med school GI rotation:

Q. What did the gastroenterologist say to the patient as he entered the examining suite?

A. "Pull up a loose stool."

That will suffice.

It's time to go.