Taking micro-blogging to the next step #3
By glazou on Thursday 21 May 2009, 09:08 - Mozilla - Permalink
The following screenshot represents exactly two days and a half of work, not more... It's based on xulrunner, and it's cross-platform. Don't look at the name, it's only a codename used to build the project.
What's in there so far:
- multiple accounts, twitter and identi.ca
- single sign-on
- multiple folders (and subfolders) per account
- trash
- automatic or manual retrieval of tweets
- drag and drop of messages between folders
- limit the list of tweets to the n last tweets or view all
- tabs
- external (default browser) or internal (tab) viewing of links
- all is based on an SQLite database so all your tweets are belong to you, meaning you can deal with your already stored tweets being offline and prepare for instance replies that you'll send later...
- filters to automatically manage your timeline when new tweets appear
- and of course add-ons...
Comments
You reinvent e-mail based on twits ?
I'll test it as soon as it will be available.
The only issue is that, IMHO, we can't consume tweets just like we consume emails. Twitter provides us a stream of information that you can easily get in or out, whenever you want. Since you're following a critical mass of twitterers, you can't follow the entire amount of information published in a single day just like you empty your inbox.
Should we consider the tweets to be similar to email ? They seem to be totally different and complementary things.
But there is obviously a need of archiving tweets, being able to publish a short message both on Twitter and identi.ca by pressing a single bouton and so on. So I'll wait this application to be released just to test it and see whether it fits my needs.
I stay tuned !
The UI sucks. We need to talk
Which platforms will be supported ?
* Identi.ca - in progress
* Twitter - in progress
* Soup - ?
* Tumblelog - ?
* ...
Multilingual ?
Great application, would love to try out on Mac OS X.