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DESCRIPTION

Twitterrific is a fun little application that lets you both read and publish posts or "tweets" to the Twitter community website. The application's user interface is clean, concise and designed to take up a minimum of real estate on your Mac's desktop.

To get started, visit the Twitter home page to sign up for an account for use with Twitterrific. Twitter accounts are free, take only minutes to set up and are a great way to stay connected with people around the globe.

WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.1:
  • Growl notifications are now sorted correctly and summarized
  • New keyboard shortcuts and action menu on tweets
  • Changing logins on Leopard will no longer hang
  • Status message updates now work correctly with Adium 1.2
  • Plugged memory leaks that slowed Twitterrific down over time
  • Added ³teh snappy² to get rid of the Marble of Doom
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later, a Twitter account.


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Iconfactory
Downloads:5,820
  - Version d/l:1,921
Internet:Newsreaders
License:Demo
Date:28 Feb 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$14.95
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Jun 23 2008
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ZANGIEF  I love Twitter, and when I found this app it looked really cool, so I gave it a try. It's very sleek and has a nice interface, however: I have found Twitterrific to be extremely hit-and-miss when it comes to connecting to Twitter and getting tweets. About 5/6 of the time, I have to use Twitter's web interface instead, because Twitterrific is complaining about various server errors and things about the server complaining that I sent a bad request when I quite clearly have not sent ANY requests in the last hour– I just turned on my Mac; it's not possible.

Yes, it's a great Twitter app, and I'm perfectly fine with the hourly ads. But the connectivity issues themselves can on occasion make this app a real hassle to use.  
(Version 3.1)

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Apr 13 2008

GLOBETROTTERDK  I would like to see support for Proteus (back from the dead) and for TwitPic. I also think that Twitterific should add support for other services, like MoodBlast does.  
(Version 3.1)

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Feb 20 2008
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STORMCHILD  Twitter seemed really fun and cool at first, and Twitterific was a brilliant free program that made it that much better. And then they decided to start charging for it...which is fair enough, of course, as they spend time developing it, but $15 is simply a rip off for this very basic program. I would have gladly paid $5 or maybe even $7 for this, but $15 is just over the top for one little window that can't even remember its contents between launches and makes me keep marking the same messages read everytime I start it up. And to me, there's no point in even using Twitter if I have to keep going to a webpage to check it every time. Net result: I simply stopped using Twitter.

I think it could have really taken off if this great client remained free and was cross platform, but I find the ads irritating, was annoyed that I had to keep marking the same messages read everytime, and found it surprisingly slow to start up for such a simple little app, adding that much more of a delay between when I log in to my computer, and when I can start actually doing anything (several other programs also launch at login, and Twitterific's surprisingly slow startup time added a not-insignificant extra delay to the process).

At some point this client stopped being about bringing something new and cool to everyone, and the focus was shifted to making money rather than providing a quality product. That's when it started to go downhill. Granted, the actual Twitter service itself has not become commercial, but like I said, to me it's useless if I have to keep checking a webpage; it really needs a decent client, and sadly, Twitterific stopped being decent right around the same time it started costing way too much money.

Quite frankly it's not that much of a disappointment anyway; over the year or so that I used Twitter, it slowly morphed from timely quotes and tidbits and links to cool things, to a boring play-by-play of the most mundane aspects of people's lives (e.g. "Just got out of bed. Time for coffee." or "Dropping the kids off at school." ... good lord, who cares?!). I think we lost the point of this somewhere. But this is just one person's experience.  
(Version 3.0.1)

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Jun 14 2008

IGAUCHO  Check out Twhirl. I think you'll like it better.

www.twhirl.org  
(Version 3.1)

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Jul 28 2008

SEISHIZERO  There is still a free option where you get one ad per hour. Not a bad deal - wish television only had one advert per hour.  
(Version 3.1)

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Jun 7 2007

SJK  Error with 2.1:

2007-06-07 09:48:55 -1000: There was an error retrieving the XML data from Twitter. The error message is "can’t find host".

Deleting preferences didn't help. 2.0 works fine.  
(Version 2.1)

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Apr 3 2007

CLEVERSIMON  A small feature request: For those who use other means of keeping an eye on their friends' Twitters, an option to show only the text field?  
(Version 2.0b4)

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Jan 28 2007
*****

COMPUTERNAUT  Looks great! And works great as well.

Save for one little quirk. It seems it required you to be logged out from the Twitter.com website before posting a message with Twitterific. Would be nice if it worked independently of whether you're logged in or not on Twitter.com.

Anyway, it's a great little gadget!  
(Version 1.1)

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Jan 16 2007

JEFF LERCH  This is great. Now i just have to cross my fingers, and hope that more people start using the service.

Will there be a Windows version? I'm stuck using a pc most of the day.   
(Version 1.0)

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Jan 16 2007

MACUPDATE ADMIN  Windows version? Ask here.  
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Jan 17 2007

JEFF LERCH  Done and done!  
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Feb 28 2008

COMPUTERNAUT  Yes it's really great.  
(Version 3.1)

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