January 5th, 2010
So today I just checked the statistics for Twaddle and there are over 2000 users who have allowed Twaddle to communicate with the Twitter servers. Whilst I’d love for this number to be 10,000 and for each of those users to be paying me a fiver, I’m still rather happy with these figures. In order to celebrate this nice little milestone I thought I’d present you with a recent feature I implemented as part of the 0.3 release: Threaded Conversations.
0.3 Preview – Threaded Conversations
Here we can see a conversation I held between my personal account and the @TwaddleWM account. You may notice a very subtle tree structure of the list – this is to indicate the hierarchy of the conversation. This view only works when statuses are properly tagged as replies to another status (which Twaddle and the Twitter website do, but some clients seem to do less reliably). I’m so far finding this feature really useful to manage long running conversations throughout the day (and you can sometimes find some great new people to follow as a result!). This interface can be brought up from any of the other views within Twaddle and allows you to interact with the tweets just like they were in your normal timeline. Expect the interface and how this is rendered to change before the final 0.3 release – this is after all just a preview! If you have any suggestions on improving the layout, I’d love to hear them.
Also, don’t forget to take part in the poll on the right hand side – it’s a great way for you to voice your views on what feature you desperately want included in 0.3 !
Tags: 0.3, news
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December 27th, 2009
Currently Twaddle has over 1800 users – which isn’t as a nice round number like 0.1.4 had – and I’m really excited to release 0.2.1. This release took longer than I had hoped but contains a lot of under-the-hood changes which were required for future growth of Twaddle. I also think I now have a really good road map of where I want to take Twaddle and the kind of impact that has on the user. Anyway, with my useless prattle out of the way, on to the bit you guys all care about; features and download links!
- Added tracking of @replies / mentions
- Added full support for Direct Messages (Send, Receive, Delete, Notifications)
- Improved touch-friendly interface
- Support for multi-byte UTF8 characters
- Much faster layout engine
- Autocompletion of friends names when posting an update
- Follow / unfollow a user from any view
- Updates to a user’s avatar are handled
- Finer grained control over when Twaddle automatically synchronises with Twitter
- Many other bug fixes
As per usual you can obtain this version in multiple ways;
Finally, if you have Microsoft Tag Reader (visit gettag.mobi on your phone’s browser) installed on your phone you can scan the tag below.
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December 20th, 2009
It’s been a long time coming, but I’m excited to announce that Twaddle 0.2 is nearly here. I now consider 0.2 to be feature complete and am now going through the process of final testing before I release it. I’m hoping to have 0.2 released in time for Christmas (if only so I can lounge about and play computer games instead of coding), but can’t promise anything.
A partial list of features, to whet your appetite, include;
- A revamped interface
- Viewing mentions
- Sending, receiving and viewing direct messages
- Speed improvements
- Better UTF8 support
Tags: 0.2, new
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October 13th, 2009
I’d hoped to have a 0.2 of Twaddle out by now, unfortunately that’s not been the case.
First off, I recently moved house which took a fair amount of time and effort to get packed / unpacked and have DSL connected at my new place. In addition to this I’ve had a few Uni assignments which took away even more time. In amongst all this my computer chair broke… I’ve purchased a new chair which won’t arrive for another 4 – 8 weeks. The dining chair I’m using in the mean time places a lot of strain on my back meaning I can only code for short periods of time.
Secondly, I’ve put a lot of work into making Twaddle a lot faster. On my HTC Touch Pro rotating the screen redraws virtually straight away and Twaddle continues to be responsive throughout the whole process. A vastly improved algorithm for laying out tweets (50 tweets get laid out in ~150ms on my phone) as well as moving non-visible layouts to a background process ensures Twaddle remains responsive throughout rotations. I’m still working on improving the speed of performing updates.
Long story short: 0.2 won’t be released as soon as I’d hoped as I’m putting a lot of work into it to ensure it far eclipses previous versions of Twaddle.
Tags: 0.2, news
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September 13th, 2009
Today the 1000th person authorised Twaddle to communicate with the Twitter.com servers on their behalf. To coincide with this great milestone I’ve decided to release Twaddle 0.1.4. This is a minor release (and hopefully the last in the 0.1 line before I release 0.2) which includes the following features;
- Fixed problems sending Tweets with non-ASCII characters
- Fixed uninstall issues
- Fixed resending tweets
- Handle Twitter.com failures better
You can obtain this version in multiple ways;
Finally, if you have Microsoft Tag Reader (visit gettag.mobi on your phone’s browser) installed on your phone you can scan the tag below.
Tags: 0.1.4, news
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August 26th, 2009
CJ Lippstreu over at PocketNow.com has features Twaddle. You can read the article over at the site. PocketNow being rather popular caused a bit of a surge in the number of downloads, followers and authentications for Twaddle.
As a result we now have over 300 users! Unfortunately, due to my recent house move (and lack of broadband) I don’t have any updated pictures to post as a “Thanks guys!”
Tags: news
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August 16th, 2009
Earlier today Twaddle Twaddle ticked over to 200 users. Not too shabby at all. Considering that I’ve had some things going on in my personal life that have prevented me from working on, or evangelising, Twaddle as much as I’d like.
In the same spirit as the 100 user milestone I present a screenshot previewing 0.2.
0.2 Preview – Received Direct Messages
As I anticipated in the previous post I’ve moved the icon bar to the bottom of the application. I find this is much more finger friendly as you can navigate without obscuring the screen. Additionally you can see the list of Direct Messages my test account has received (as well as the icon of the sender and your icon as an overlay).
Someone commented in my previous post about the icons used in Twaddle: Yes, they suck. I’m not developer not an artist. If anyone is interested in providing icons / colour advice, please get in contact with me. I’d love to hear from you.
Tags: 0.2, news
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July 29th, 2009
In the last 8 hours the 100th user allowed Twaddle to communicate with Twitter on their behalf. It’s good to see people are finding Twaddle useful.
As my gift on this milestone I present… a screenshot from the 0.2 version of Twaddle.
0.2 Preview – New navigation and @Replies
In this screenshot we can see two new features of 0.2: First of all is the new navigation control. This is a bar of icons displayed along the top of the screen in the same vein as Microsoft’s Facebook application. I’m thinking I’ll move it to the bottom of the screen so there’s less distance for your finger to travel to get to it. Additionally the graphics used here are placeholder images – if anyone wants to volunteer to provide design services for Twaddle I’d love to hear from you. When you change which section of Twaddle you view you’ll get a textual overlay to indicate what you’re now viewing – in this screenshot I’m viewing my @Replies. The second feature, you may have picked up on, is the @Replies. In this view you can see several tweets people have targeted at me (I do apologise to those who are pictured)
Anyway, if you have any feedback, suggestions, criticisms or problems, please let me know and I’ll do my best to address your issues.
Tags: 0.2, news
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July 27th, 2009
It’s that time again – a new build is out. 0.13 is a minor update that fixes a few crashing issues that may have caused some issues. Additionally downloading your friends avatars requires far less CPU usage which gives much better responsiveness (especially noticeable when downloading many new avatars at once).
Finally I’ve introduced AppToDate support – you can grab AppToDate from http://www.apptodate.org/get. For those that don’t know AppToDate is a simple – but effective – application for making sure you have the latest version of applications on your Windows Mobile device.
You can grab the newest version in several ways;
Alternatively you can always visit http://get.twaddle.mobi in your phone’s browser to download the most current version of Twaddle at any given time.
Finally, if you have Microsoft Tag Reader (visit gettag.mobi on your phone’s browser) installed on your phone you can scan the tag below.
Tags: 0.1.3, news
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July 26th, 2009
I’ve just created the new domain get.twaddle.mobi. Visiting http://get.twaddle.mobi in your phones browser will download the latest release of Twaddle straight to your phone for easy installation.
The release that’s downloaded will be kept in sync with the latest stable version of Twaddle.
Tags: sitenews
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