Simple desktop twitter client from Twhirl
Blog, Microblogging April 18th, 2008
twhirl is a desktop client for the popular microblogging service Twitter. It allows you to post short 140-character updates about what you are doing, as well as following your twitter friends and read all their updates, replies anyone sends to you, and direct messages to your account. You can also answer to another user by replying or sending him/her a private direct message.
Key Facts
- twhirl is based on the new Adobe AIR platform that allows web development techniques to be used to create desktop applications. It is powered by the Flash-based Flex 3 framework, also from Adobe.
- twhirl stores your configuration at two locations in your user profile directory. The first is an XML file that holds information about your selected color scheme and all twitter accounts you set up, the second is an encrypted data store provided by AIR in which twhirl saves passwords it should remember.
- twhirl supports handling multiple Twitter accounts. For every user account you set up, exactly one twitter window can be opened, and every twitter window has to be associated with exactly one account.
Tags: Twitter. Microblogging
