I recently started using Snitter, a desktop app for Twitter that works on both a Mac or PC. It is powered by Adobe AIR and was built by Ottawa web developer Jonathan Snook. It’s a really well designed application and has been great way to keep track my ever-increasing Twitter overload. It comes bunch of built-in themes and gives you full access to all of your Twitter information (Tweets, Arcive, Replies, Direct Messages, etc.) which can be toggled by keyboard shortcuts. Jonathan explains why he developed Snitter:
I built Snitter for a couple reasons. First off, I wanted to take AIR out for a spin and see what it could do. Secondly, I find using the Twitter web site frustrating at times because it doesn’t offer up features that I’ve always felt could be easily added. So, I’ve gone ahead and built an app with the features that I’ve always wanted.
Here’s a list of Snitter’s features:
* auto-updates tweet list
* highlights messages sent to you via @ syntax (and makes a chirp)
* clear current list of tweets
* refresh list of tweets
* displays last time it tried to request an update
* view 20 most recent items in your timeline
* view 20 most recent replies
* view 20 most recent direct messages
* view and filter friends list by name and screen name
* view and filter followers
* links to easily @reply and Direct message users
* keyboard shortcuts to access each panel (t=tweets, a=archives, r=replies, d=direct messages, f=favourites, i=friends, o=followers, u=updates)
* add favorites tab and allow tweets to be set as a favorite
* will notify you of new versions of Snitter
* audible notification of new tweets
* will remember previous window size and location
* will minimize to system tray
* auto-login
Previously I had used Twitterrific, which is also a great Twitter app, but it would often have problems updating, so I decided to give Snitter a try. Also Snitter has a minimize option (some reason Twitterrific did not have one) which is super useful when you need to get some work done.
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snitter? don’t people have enough to do with just their regular lives,that they need a way to organize their twitter overload? twitter overload? if you find yourself overloaded with imaginary “friends,” how about ditching twitter, and “interface” with real people? scary, i know, but it can be done.
If anything, Twitter has caused an exponential increase in the number of people that I interact with offline.
Also, who are all of these “imaginary” friends you are referring to? Ok, you caught me, I actually created that screenshot in Photoshop and made up a bunch of fake people that I wish I knew in real life.
If you think Scott Beale doesn’t know many people, then you don’t know Scott Beale!!
He is the wind beneath my wings.
Indeed Scott, we are all subjects of your imagination, as is this comment :-).
He may be the wind beneath Schlomo’s wings, but I’ve always thought of Scott as the heavy water from a nuclear reactor, extracted and used to concoct a Marie(curie)tini, garnished with a calamari and served to the reactor’s operator, still on shift.
But then again, I’m just an imaginary person, so my (imaginary) imaginings don’t count for much. Sigh.
Another Snitter feature I like is the built in tiny url creator.
A feature I’m wanting is key commands to scroll down and up twitters. On Mac only the mouse can control ir
Another Adobe.AIR Twitter app is Spaz, reviewed in Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/10/11/twitter-with-spaz-air-interview-with-dev-ed-finkler
I can’t compare the two (I roll old skewl with the web and SMS), but I should mention that I have a big bias for Spaz.
http://terrychay.com/blog/article/spaz-adobe-air-funkatron-karenism.shtml
Yes I can verify that I am indeed completely fictional.