twhirl
twhirl is a desktop
client for the popular microblogging platform Twitter that builds on
the Adobe AIR runtime. AIR allows desktop software
development using popular web techniques like XHTML/CSS or Flash/Flex.
Most of the features available on the Twitter website are
accessible through twhirl. This software also adds a considerable
number of usability enhancements.
AIR allows desktop software development using popular web
techniques like XHTML/CSS or Flash/Flex.
Features include:
- Connects to multiple Twitter, laconi.ca, Friendfeed and
Seesmic accounts
- Displays notifications for new messages
- Shorten long URLs (using digg.com, bit.ly, snurl, twurl or
is.gd)
- Cross-post your updates to Jaiku and many other sites like
Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and more via Ping.fm
- Post images to TwitPic
- Search tweets using Twitter Search and TweetScan, and
follow topics in near-real time with saved searches
- Automatically find tweets mentioning your @username
- Record a video on Seesmic, and share it on twitter
immediately
- Get your seesmic updates in real-time using XMPP
- English spell checking
- Remembering login credentials on users' computer
- All-in-one timeline with tweets, replies and direct messages
- Configurable auto-updates for the timeline
- Displaying users' latest 20 status updates and direct
messages sent
- Sending status updates
- Sending replies to other users (with quick buttons on
others' statuses)
- Sending direct messages to other users
- Showing users' friends and followers
- Deleting own status updates and direct messages
- Input area can be hidden (configurable auto-hiding)
- Multi-account support
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Sys tray / dock icon support
- Audible and visual notifications
- Viewing and (un)setting favorites
- (Un)following users
- Auto-updating the program
- Changeable color schemes
- Searching for public tweets (powered by terraminds)
- Filtering the timeline
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