I recently discovered these instructions for accessing identi.ca using the Tweetie 2 iPhone app. Since the Mule Stable is built on the same software as indenti.ca, the technique works just as well as a way of checking and posting messages on the Mule Stable.

Warning! Make sure you read the caveat below: be very careful about using the same username as you have on Twitter!

Here's how (the steps match the sceenshots):

1. Go your Accounts page on Tweetie 2 (press whatever button you see on the top left until you get there!) and press the + button in the top right.
2. Enter your Mule Stable username and password and then press the picture of a cog (the settings button).
3. In the "API Root" field enter https://mulestable.net/api (for identi.ca you would enter https://identi.ca/api, but I don't have an SSL login for the Mule Stable yet). The press "Add Account (top left). Then press Save (top right).
4. You should see your Mule Stable account in the account list. Select it and you will see your Personal messages (you cannot see the public timeline as far as I know).

Enjoy! Even geo-location should work.

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How_to_send_and_receive_Mule_S.zip (198 KB)

There are a few caveats:

• Caution! If your Mule Stable (or identi.ca) username is the same as your twitter username, you may experience strange behaviour. Worst case, you will not be able to authenticate as that user and you will have to delete it from the account list in Tweetie 2 and add it again.
• Similarly, sometimes if you look at someone's profile in the Stable and they have the same username as someone you follow on Twitter, it may display the Twitter profile instead of the Stable profile.
• Search any various other features do not work at the moment.
• Although the notice limit on the Stable is 200 characters, Tweetie 2 will not let you enter more than the standard 140 characters.

UPDATE

The Mule Stable has moved to http://mulestable.net. It also now has SSL (secure connections), so the instructions in the text have been modified, but the screenshots reflect the original domain name,