Loren Brichter was born on November 15,1984 and is an American software developer who is best known for creating Tweetie and the pull-to-refresh interaction.
19 Facts About Loren Brichter
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Loren Brichter was born in Manhattan, New York, on November 15,1984.
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Loren Brichter is a son of contractor Gabor Brichter and real estate entrepreneur, restaurateur, and designer Christina Sidoti.
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Loren Brichter was interested in Cocoa during high school and learned C, Objective-C, as well as web programming from his teacher, Chris Lehmann.
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Loren Brichter then switched his major from Computer Engineering to Electrical Engineering and graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science.
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Loren Brichter was offered free masters by the university, which he declined so that he could start his career.
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From 2006 to 2007, Loren Brichter worked at Apple as part of a five-person team responsible for making the iPhone's graphics hardware and software communicate.
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Loren Brichter left the company after iPhone 1.0 was complete.
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From 2007 to 2010, Loren Brichter founded his own company, Atebits, in 2007, and released a small drawing app for Mac known as Scribbles.
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Loren Brichter then released his second app, Tweetie, in 2008, where the pull-to-refresh interaction technique was invented.
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From 2010 to 2011, Loren Brichter worked for Twitter, at which point he would sell Tweetie and his company.
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Loren Brichter started Letterpress once he left Twitter, Inc in November 2011.
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When Loren Brichter first created the game, his wife was his first beta tester, and the rules of the game evolved from beta tests.
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Later on, in April 2009, Loren Brichter released Tweetie for Mac.
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In 2008, Loren Brichter founded Borange with Mason Lee and Martin Turon while he was living in Berkeley, California.
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Loren Brichter has created two apps, the first being Borange, a social availability app that enables users to keep track of their friends' activities through a social timeline view on their mobile device.
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Loren Brichter is married to Jean Whitehead, and together, they have three children.
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Loren Brichter is the creator of the pull-to-refresh gesture that first came out on Tweetie 2.0 for iPhone.
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Cell Swipe was created by Loren Brichter and released in Tweetie.