MetroTwit - (Freeware)
Socialize and enter Tweets quickly with the MetroTwit, the Twitter application for Windows.
MetroTwit is a desktop client for Twitter, the social network to 145 characters. User can enter his Tweets quickly and track messages without his subscriptions through the browser. MetroTwit interface is very simple and allows to display on different columns, the subscriptions, direct messages, mentions or the search results. Other settings are also available: customizing the application, alert Tweets, position reporting, or change the site of loading images.
A preview system will follow the links or view images in messages posted while proposing to open them in the default browser.
- Updated to utilize Twitter API 1.1
- Added retweet blocking in searches
- Refreshed user interface style
- Many performance improvements
- Fixed crash when displaying some Unicode tweets with usernames, hashtags or links
- Changed layout for consistency with Twitter’s new display guidelines
- Changed default notifications to only mentions and direct messages
- Added native Twitter picture, YouTube, Instagram, SkyDrive previews
- Added support for native Twitter Pic upload (existing users must change their Services setting)
- Added support for SHIFT+mouse for horizontal scroll
- Added support for Microsoft .NET 4.5
- Added checkbox option for pressing ENTER to send tweet
- Added user avatar to notifications
- Added “unsubscribe†to followed lists
- Changed all API endpoints to SSL
- Removed hover-to-expand shortened URLs
- Removed “public tweets†and “retweets by me†columns as they are no longer supported by Twitter
- Fixed tweet counter for new URL length
- Fixed deleting direct messages
- Fixed possible crash when resuming app from extended idle
- Fixed issue when typing and pressing ENTER to quickly submitting incomplete tweet
- Improved handling of Twitter rate limit and Twitter API errors
- Fixed report tweet as spam error
- Fixed filtering text in URLs
- Fixed showing blocked users in lists
- Fixed geotagged Tweet map not displaying correct location
- Fixed more clicking unread marker that caused app to crash
- Fixed significant performance and memory issues
- Removed support for Windows XP
- Fixed update changelog not displaying
- Fixed not being to add or remove accounts in certain scenarios
- Fixed sent DMs show as unread
- Fixed Windows 8 Aero coloring
- Added window border to Windows 8
- Fixed crash if Twitter entities not returning properly
- Fixed notifications grouping if notification already showing
- Fixed ads not displaying properly
- Fixed sometimes clicking links in notifications opening two browser windows
- Fixed crashing when scrolling with unread marker or PageUp/PageDown
- Fixed “added to list†grammar in activities
- Fixed long “my list†names
- Fixed “Worldwide†trend to top of trends list dropdown