First Looks: Twitterrific 2.0
Apple March 24th, 2007Thanks to Gedeon Maheux, the Principal / Designer from the Iconfactory - I have my hands on the latest beta version of Twitterrific, version 2.0.
The new features on the latest version are plentiful, though instead of listing the 25+ changes to the application, I’m going show off a few new UI changes in the way of screenshots.
One of the more noticeable changes of the UI side is the option to choose how you would like to view the latest tweets from your friends. You can choose a nice compact version, or choose to have everything expanded - a better option if you have few friends in your profile.
The Twitterrific posting window can now be adjusted by simply clicking and dragging the window, it makes it much easier to write messages, especially when you need to go back and make small adjustments.
One last feature I’d like to reveal is the ability to choose which new message “tweet” sound you would like enabled. Along with the default sound featured in the first version of Twitterrific, you have the option of picking from one of five sounds (4 are new).
These are only just a few features of Twitterrific 2.0, I’m itching to reveal more but what is a software release without surprise? Keep an eye on the Iconfactory for more details soon.
What app do you use to update your Twitter Profile?
Update: Want to get your hands on a copy of Twitterrific 2.0? Simply make the Twitterrific profile at Twitter a friend and wait for a special tweet.
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March 24th, 2007 at 10:00 am
I totally use Twitterrific. I think it is the best option out there for updating my Twitter profile. I can’t wait for this to come out to the public “well more to the public.” Looking good!
March 24th, 2007 at 10:01 am
Nice! This is definitely looking slick. Can’t wait to try it. I use Twitterific usually, but it’s got some quirks that make it annoying to use sometimes (like when it disappears as you’re trying a message). Hopefully this new version helps with that. Certainly looks nicer.
March 24th, 2007 at 10:05 am
I use the Firefox Twitter plugin. When i get a mac, i’ll use this thingy.
March 24th, 2007 at 10:19 am
I hate to say it, but I was hoping for something a little more in depth.
March 24th, 2007 at 10:25 am
Glenn, great post. the ui overhaul is def. a welcome. i do have some gripes about the current version that hopefully, the developers will take into consideration. I have stopped using twitterrific for 2 weeks now. 1) the inability for twitterrific to keep running but stays displayed in the background just killed it for me, especially when it temporarily hung and thus covering applications i was using at that time. 2) everytime i wake my macbook pro from sleep, twitterrific just “disappeared”. i have to relaunch it every single time 3) if you select a non-latest tweets, newly delivered tweets won’t be displayed. it stayed on the pre-highlighted tweets. 4) how about an option to hide the display less than 10 secs. like 5 for example. since it does not take that long to read 140-char tweets alleviating the many needs to use the toggle key 5) it does not get displayed on either the “force quit application” window or when you do command+tab and thus when it hangs, i need to go to either the terminal or activity monitor to kill it.
I am however hopeful that v2.0 will fix some of these issues for i do love twitterrific very much but due the aforementioned problems, i soley twitter online now. Thanks for sharing this preview.
March 24th, 2007 at 10:27 am
@Andre, that’s why it’s titled “First Looks”. give you a little bit so you want more of it later on.
March 24th, 2007 at 10:34 am
I used TwitterPost.
March 24th, 2007 at 10:40 am
I update via Quicksilver thanks to Ted’s tweet applescript with Growl Notification.
March 24th, 2007 at 11:36 am
This is all the info I can reveal due to some restrictions from the Iconfactory. However this should be plenty to take in before Twitterrific 2.0 is released to the public.
March 24th, 2007 at 11:37 am
I’m hoping the new Twitterrific supports Growl notifications.
March 24th, 2007 at 11:53 am
Pretty cool interface. Can’t say I have been too into Twitter, but perhaps with an app like this that could change.
March 24th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
I think Glenn’s use of Twitter on his frontpage is right up there with one of the only ways Twitter should be used. When I browse through Twitter too often I see it being used as a chat program, which seems to defeat the purpose.
“@Steve: that’s what she said!”
“@Jane: I’ll be there in one hour”
To me, that is what text messages and chat programs are for. Why have public conversations over Twitter? It makes more sense to use Twitter as a global status message. And with the ability to post an update from your phone or chat program of choice, it becomes an up-to-the-minute top blog post!
March 24th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
I completely agree with you. Twitter is not a chat program, and I don’t think it should be used as such.
In my case, Twitterrific always loses signal with Twitter for some reason, and then pops up this very annoying window. It does this at least twice an hour. For that reason, I just switched to TwitterPost. We’ll see how it goes.
March 24th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
GROWL SUPPORT, PLEASE! Sorry for yelling, but this (and the cutting off long tweets thing) is my biggest complaint with Twitterific. One cool feature, however, might be an automatic conversion of URLs with TinyURL or URLTea.
March 24th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Just a tip: It would help me out a lot if, as soon as I started typing text, it would jump to the input box.
March 24th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
No offence Glenn, you’re a good guy, but twitter is a joke for people in self-indulgent times.
March 24th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
I really wish you guys could make a PC port. I have a powerbook but let the wife use it the most and I love this program though im mostly on the pc and have to settle for twitteroo…
Oh well.. Any word of something cool like this?
March 24th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
This is so cool! I must say the UI is impressive considering the app does not do much.. Great job to those at IconFactory!
March 24th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Cool! Can’t wait to get version 2.
Feature request - maybe you can forward it to them - add the functionality to get updates from people you are following (like IM and SMS) - not all people in your friends’ list. :)
March 24th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Looks great! I love using this, even though I only Twitter about once a day, at the most.
March 24th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
I’m the author of Twitterrific. I’d like to address some of the comments here:
@Evan: We’ve changed the auto-hide behavior in this release. It’s impossible to know if you’re reading a tweet or not, so we assume that you are if you make the window frontmost.
@Andre: There’s a lot more than what’s in the screenshots.
@Yohannes: The hangs should be gone. We’ve eliminated several crashing bugs, too. Menubar applications don’t show in Command-Tab or Force Quit — we’ve solved that too.
@Ronald & others: No Growl support in this version. Its on our list of things TODO, though.
@Paul: Read the dialog box that comes up. It tells you can go to the config window and turn it off.
@Brendan: Twitter can be used with restraint — and when it is, it’s a very valuable tool for communicating in a wide group of people. Chat is only for people I work with directly, Twitter is for everyone else.
@Damien: Twitterrific is recreational programming for me. That’s why it’s free. Programming on Windows is hell and I only do it when people pay me.
@Rom: Feature requests like additional update support need to go to Twitter — they provide the API we use.
-ch
March 24th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
@ Craig Hockenberry,
I’m sure you’re a talanted guy, and I wish you all the success in the world with your project, but good luck in changing my views about Twitter - not gonna happen.
March 24th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Twitteroo on Windows, it sucks :(
March 25th, 2007 at 12:36 am
@Craig, looks like tons of updates on v2.0 in addition to the ui overhaul. cant wait to try it out. when roughly do you expect to release the new build?
March 25th, 2007 at 3:51 am
This great, I use Twitterrific all the time on my macbook. Keep up the work.
March 25th, 2007 at 5:37 am
Thanks for your comments back man. How about you atleast give us the wav version of the tweet sounds so I can use on my windows?
March 25th, 2007 at 6:07 am
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March 25th, 2007 at 6:41 am
It does look pretty darn slick, I just hope that it holds up under all that twitting….I bet that pretty soon the ISPs are going to try to sniff out twitting so they can shut it down…yet is uses so little bandwidth. Probably just for fun.
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March 25th, 2007 at 6:41 am
I use IMified to post via an IM client…
March 25th, 2007 at 6:53 am
Wow, this is pretty exciting!
Couple nits: The scrollbar seems about 2px too wide — like, it looks huge! ;)
Second, while I love the addition of new sounds, I still am dying to see assignable sounds — so that different friends have different tweets attached to them. Maybe expose this through some of kind of hidden per user preference?
Lastly, I’d love a dropdown menu in the MenuItem — so that I can quit it without going to the prefs!
March 25th, 2007 at 8:28 am
I’d love to see some growl support also. I update via quicksilver but would to see what other people say via growl. It’s less intrusive of my workflow if i just keep the twitterific window minimized.
March 25th, 2007 at 8:30 am
Very nice looking
March 25th, 2007 at 11:47 am
@Craig: Good to know, thanks!
March 25th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Is it just me or is twitter slow? I got twitter to load on this once because twitter is slow. I hope twitter speeds up.
March 26th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
By the way, the beta is now available to everyone: http://www.macuser.com/updates/twitterrific_20_beta_is_here_a.php
March 26th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Love the design of the new Twitterific, but I’m having issues getting mine to refresh with new Tweets. It’s set to every minute, but seems to stall. Set to every 5 minutes though appears to be working. Odd…
(glad you liked my post on who to follow on twitter on pronetadvertising by the way glenn)
October 19th, 2007 at 1:36 am
This is a great post! This is actually the first post I ever read on your Blog, after getting linked to from This TUAW Post.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:50 am
Is this a widget then?
November 1st, 2007 at 10:25 am
Maybe read the article to actually see what it is…click a link or two to get some info. Or google is always good too.