July 20, 2011 12:42 am AEST
One of the many features we’ve been planning for MetroTwit since day one is the ability to visualize and enjoy tweets in a more casual and interactive format. Today, we’re making available MetroTwit Show, a project that’s been in the oven for a few weeks to make the reading experience for Twitter more vibrant.
To make the experience accessible, MetroTwit Show is a Silverlight 4 out-of-browser application to take advantage of the widespread adoption of Silverlight on both Windows and Macs. Like MetroTwit, it is inspired by Microsoft’s Metro design language and prides itself on beautiful animations and elegant typography.
As a v1 release, the feature set is limited to a simple read-only experience to following searches and trends. We have plans to add many more layers of interactivity and functionality.
As always, we look forward to everyone’s feedback on both MetroTwit Show and MetroTwit as we continue refining and improving the Twitter experience on Windows.
June 21, 2011 12:29 am AEST
Use the in-app updater to receive this MetroTwit update.
Version 0.8.1.0 release notes:
- Fixed rare reconnect/disconnect issues with streaming
- Fixed authentication issues behind proxy
- Fixed restart after applying update (will take effect next update)
- Fixed popup columns appearing misplaced
- Fixed rare empty mentions column
- Fixed retweet count to be more consistent
- Fixed rare crash with autocomplete
- Fixed maximized window overlapping auto-hidden Windows taskbar
- Removed WhatTheTrends support (too unreliable)
June 14, 2011 9:48 am AEST
Use the in-app updater to receive this MetroTwit update.
Version 0.8.0.2 release notes:
- Fixed endless loop authenticating due to change in response from Twitter 🙁
June 13, 2011 2:43 pm AEST
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Version 0.8.0.1 release notes:
- Fixed streaming columns not updating after a while
- Fixed username autocomplete not working
- Fixed j.mp pro not working correctly
June 13, 2011 3:37 am AEST
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Version 0.8.0.0 release notes:
- Added Twitter streaming API support for friends, mentions and DM columns
- Added unread marker and unread scroll jump-to
- Added scroll to top shortcut by clicking column title
- Added keyboard and mouse “back” button support for popup columns
- Added new tweet animation for fluid scroll
- Added “Retweeted by” grouping to native retweets in mentions
- Added request for new direct message permission due to Twitter policy change
- Added support for j.mp pro
- Fixed columns with Twitter Photo links appearing blank
- Fixed “keep scroll position when refreshing” to be more consistent
- Fixed many memory leaks
- Fixed loading image previews would freeze the application
- Fixed TwitPic image uploading failing intermittently
- Fixed ability to incorrectly retweet protected tweets
- Fixed hashtag autocomplete to not insert by default
- Fixed “forget account” not working in unauthorized dialog
- Fixed loading speed of settings page
- Changed design to optimize for negative space
- Changed “keep scroll position when refreshing” to default to off
- Changed default image provider for new users to “yFrog”