User:Chr5d50/MetroTwit

MetroTwit

Developer(s)	Pixel Tucker Pty Ltd.
Initial release	May 31, 2010
Stable release	0.8.0.2 / June 14, 2011 (2011-06-14)
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Type	Twitter client
License	Proprietary
Website	metrotwit.com

MetroTwit is a desktop application for Twitter designed for Microsoft Windows, by taking advantage of the latest Microsoft .NET 4.0 and Windows Presentation Foundation 4 frameworks.

Currently, MetroTwit is in a beta stage.

Developers

MetroTwit is being developed by australian developer team Pixel Tucker Pty Ltd., an endeavour by Long Zheng, David Golden and Winston Pang.

User interface

MetroTwits draws inspiration from Microsoft's Metro design language, celebrating an elegant and clean user interface that's beautiful to look at and a pleasure to read.

Users can choose themes and accents to personalize the design, as well as splitting the program into columns that can show different things, for instance tweets from friends, mentions, etc.

Features

Currently, MetroTwit v 0.8.0.2 supports the following features:

• URL shortening, which can be done on-the-fly. Currently, URL shortening services supported are: bit.ly, j.mp, Google, is.gd, karmacracy, shrtn.co and tinyurl.
• Windows 7 taskbar integration
• Quick-glance notifications: read excerpts from new tweet updates as they cycle through in the notifications.
• Resizable and reorderable columns
• Autocomplete for usernames & hashtags.
• Infinite scrolling
• Real-time tweeting: since v0.8.0.0, MetroTwit support for Twitter's Streaming API.
• Flawless high DPI support.
• TwitLonger support

Future releases will also include support for multiple Twitter accounts.

Version history

• Since v0.8.0.0, support for Twitter streaming API.

External links

• MetroTwit Official Homepage