The Iconfactory

New Features

• Changed from xAuth to OAuth logins to comply with Twitter’s new authentication policy
• ReadItLater support
• Support for the MLKSHK media uploading service via settings
• Support for the Pikchur media uploading service via settings

Improvements

• Right-click on a saved search to delete it
• Sidebar only shows @username in a list title when it’s one you didn’t create
• Improvements maintaining reading position when loading large number of tweets
• Updated profile actions enabling DM’ing a follower even if you don’t follow them
• Third party URL posting scheme for sending links to Twitterrific
• MLKSHK and Pikchur image links display in-line
• Compose field remembers un-sent content
• More reliable Keychain handling

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented sidebar searches, lists and trends from updating
• Fixed a bug that prevented conversations from loading while viewing search results
• Fixed a problem that prevented lists containing unusual characters not to display
• Fixed a bug that caused the app to open in the background on launch
• Fixed a bug preventing tweets in profiles from displaying if auto-refresh was set to never
• Fixed a display bug that sometimes caused black bars to appear in the timeline
• Updated the Plixi API to support Lockerz images in-line

New Features

• Username auto-completion when composing a tweet
• Press Tab to insert the first username shown into the tweet
• New advanced media options for custom image upload services

Improvements

• Default font changed to Helvetica to match OS X standards
• Improved font rendering in the timeline for clarity
• Smoother scrolling performance when used with Apple’s Magic Mouse
• Timeline views in pop-overs now color coded properly
• Single tweet view eliminated for faster access to tweet actions
• Improved loading of multiple tweets in a conversation when selected
• User profiles now include total number of tweets from a user
• Copy and pasted author names now include a leading @ symbol
• Text size settings now also affect text in the compose area and sidebar
• Large font size setting is slightly larger
• Timestamps now update in real time

Bug Fixes

• Global trends load properly
• User avatar images load more consistently
• Hash tags containing underscores display correctly
• Links in smart quotes (like t.co) can now be opened

New Features:

• Show Author Profile added to Tweet menubar (with ⌘U shortcut)

Bug Fixes:

• Retweets no longer show up as favorites

New Features:

• New Advanced preferences pane with:
• Growl support to display notifications for mentions and direct messages
• Ability to hide the app’s dock icon
• Ability to hide the menu bar icon
• Option to open all links in the background

Improvements:

• New keyboard shortcuts for RT & RT w/comment (option-R & option-N)
• “Customize Toolbar…” added to Window menu
• Clarified wording on image error dialog
• Improved error messages for failed user actions (like reporting a spammer)
• Alert reminder to log in with Twitter username instead of email

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an erroneous error message when uploading to Cloud.app
• Clicking the dock icon invokes the default timeline if none is open
• Fixed a problem with blurry text in compose when using a scroll wheel
• Fixed an inconsistency with button selection when retweeting
• Fixed a bug where the activity indicator wouldn’t stop running
• Fixed a bug when showing conversations

New Features:

• Redesigned interface based on iOS for clarity & consistency
• True multi-account/multi-window support (paid version)
• View mentions, messages and favorites in their own timelines
• View Twitter trends, searches and lists
• Translate tweets to your native language
• Improved color-coding of tweets
• View conversations
• In-app picture viewing for supported services
• Tweet actions including email tweet, replies to author, and more
• Collapsible sidebar for quick access to timelines, searches and trends
• Theme control (light or dark)
• Font size control
• URL shortening
• Instapaper support
• Cloud.app support
• Reply all (by default)
• Picture and video uploading
• Customizable toolbar
• View user profiles, including large avatars and other details
• Follow, unfollow, and block users
• Report spammer via user profile
• Automatic updating via Sparkle

Improvements:

• OAuth support
• Number of API calls per hour increased due to OAuth switch
• Compose field allows more than 140 characters while editing
• Supports internationalized domain names in URLs
• Twitter style RT or older RT with Comment format
• Revised & improved keyboard control
• Additional link types for hashtags and stock symbols
• Turn Deck ads back on after registration
• Improved error handling and status updates

Bug Fixes:

• Removed rate limiting check for OAuth
• Fixed OAuth problems with favoriting and deleting tweets

Bug Fixes:

• Updated to use OAuth

Bug Fixes:

• Removed warning about using special characters in password since it’s no longer needed
• Updated to read new retweet data in timeline
• Fix a problem with % and # in URLs not being opened correctly in browser
• Tweets that arrive out of order will now be displayed correctly
• Updated code to load Deck ads

Bug Fixes:

• Added shortcut to view a tweet’s web page (⇧⌘←)
• Fixed bug with ⌘C not working on Snow Leopard
• Fixed a problem with tweets not being deleted
• Fixed a problem with window not appearing in all Spaces on Snow Leopard
• Fixed problems with URLs that use Unicode or CHOCKLOCK in the domain name

New Features:

• Old tweets are marked as read when you launch the application
• Added rate limit check at startup
• Changed HTTP authentication to make access more reliable through a proxy
• All communications with Twitter are now encrypted using HTTPS
• Up to 200 tweets will be read into your timeline
• Added reply ids to posted messages for more accurate conversations
• A menu is now available on the Dock icon when enabled via settings

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed many problems with accessibility: VoiceOver now reads correctly
• Fixed problems with old tweets causing false notifications
• A crash when starting up on Tiger was fixed
• Errors on Twitter no longer cause the menubar to highlight
• Reduced API usage when opening configuration panel
• Changed the warning indicator so it doesn’t block out character count
• Fixed problems with adding favorites (Cmd-1)
• Improved link detection so more types of URLs can be clicked
• Several updates to adjust application to Twitter infrastructure changes

New Features:

• The cursor is now hidden after selecting a tweet—making it easier to read
• Growl notifications are now sorted correctly and summarized
• Added a preference to control the scrolling of the tweets in the window
• New keyboard shortcuts, including spacebar to select next unread tweet
• The reply shortcut is no longer allowed on a direct message
• New power user preference to display @screenname rather than a full name
• Added a delay to auto-hiding window when using the scroll wheel
• Added an action menu showing most common keyboard shortcuts

Bug Fixes:

• Avatars load asynchronously resulting in faster & smoother performance
• Fixed several problems which caused duplicate notifications for past tweets
• Changing logins on Leopard will no longer hang
• Status message updates will now work correctly with Adium 1.2
• Plugged memory leaks that caused application to run more slowly over time
• Buttons are no longer displayed on error messages
• Fixed a problem with messages containing < and > being truncated
• Fixed highlighting issues in menubar and Dock caused by ads
• The count on the Dock icon is now cleared when you quit
• Trailing periods in URLs will no longer become a part of the link
• Added a check so that ⌘2 and ⌘D won’t overflow the text counter
• Avatars that contain UTF-8 characters are now displayed correctly
• Fixed the spelling of advertisement
• The status indicators are no longer reset when the selected tweet changes
• Session cookies are now cleared to display correct tweets
• Fixed a redraw issue caused by the window losing focus
• Added teh snappy to get rid of the Marble of Doom

New Features:

• Added a power user preference to set the protocol
• Changed refresh to minimize “bad request” errors

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a problem with links in @screen_name_with_underscores
• Updated application icon to use 512×512 resources
• Lowered connection timeout from 55 seconds to 25 seconds
• Fixed a display issue with the connection status indicator
• Notifications are no longer generated when errors occur
• Fixed a problem with HTTP 304 errors being reported
• Fixed a crash on Leopard when using HTTP authentication and proxies
• Notification sounds are back to birds instead of cameras
• Plugged memory leaks

Known Issues:

• Changing logins (⌘L) on Leopard can hang, see What’s New for workaround

New Features:

• Replies and direct messages are now included in the tweet list
• Added a scripting dictionary to control Twitterrific via AppleScript
• Error messages are now shown inline and the explanations were improved
• An unread count is displayed when you use Twitterrific in the Dock
• Using ⌘C on the selected tweet will copy its URL to the clipboard
• Right arrow opens all URLs in the tweet, and left arrow opens the user page
• Screen names are now linked to the user’s page at Twitter
• Power user preferences were added to filter tweets
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Improvements:

• The bird sound volume is now adjustable using System Preferences
• Improved chat client configuration to eliminate “Where is application?” errors
• Fixed rendering issues in Leopard
• Added warning dialogs for new users without tweets
• Added an alert for passwords may cause problems at Twitter

Known Issues:

• Changing logins (⌘L) on Leopard can hang, see What’s New for workaround

New Features:

• Keychain is used for multiple Twitter logins
• Added Growl support
• Tweets can be processed with AppleScript
• Added support for NetNewsWire
• Tweet URLs can be dragged into other applications
• Reorganized configuration panel to reduce clutter
• Added window customization with transparency, shadows and font size
• New hidden preferences for power users
• Added frickin’ laser beams to the Easter egg

Improvements:

• A warning was added when tweets exceed 140 characters
• Multiple URLs in a tweet will be linked correctly
• Added alerts to warn of problems with Twitter API
• Preference saving is more robust

New Features:

• Tweets can be displayed inline
• The text entry field can now be resized
• Added scrollbar to the list of tweets
• Tweets now maintain true read/unread states
• Main window now snaps to the edge of the screen
• Tweets can be marked as a favorite by clicking on the tweet’s heart icon
• Twitterrific can now be configured to behave as a standard Dock app
• Updated to a quicker Twitter API when refreshing tweets
• Spelling misteaks are highlighted as tweets are entered
• Added Cmd-2 to send a response to the author of the selected tweet
• Added Cmd-D to send a direct message to the author of the selected tweet
• Added new notification sounds and the ability to select them randomly
• Updated progress indicator to be more readable and show connection errors
• Twitterrific can now update iChat/Adium/Skype status using your last tweet
• Holding Option while clicking on a tweet’s “t” icon or double-clicking a tweet loads the “with friends” page at Twitter

Improvements:

• Text of tweet is no longer truncated
• The text insertion point and text field selection color are more readable
• URL connections will no longer overlap causing refresh / posting problems
• Improved checks and importing of XML data being returned by Twitter
• Fixed a memory allocation bug that would cause random crashes

• Fixed a bug with angle brackets (”<” and ”>”) not being displayed correctly
• Fixed a problem with avatar images not being updated on launch
• Holding Option while refreshing now reloads all avatars
• Fixed a problem with window level not being set correctly at startup
• Updated character count to use 140 as a maximum value

New Features:

• Added characters remaining and limited tweet length to 141 characters
• Updated notification sound
• Added preference for setting the window level
• Added a hotkey to toggle the window

Improvements:

• Fixed a bug where errors during posting were not reported correctly
• Updated tooltips that referred to “twit” instead of “tweet”
• Added keyboard shortcut for Help (Cmd-?)
• Fixed a problem with posting tweets with curly brackets and semicolons
• Window now auto-hides itself when displayed because of a new tweet
• Increased the connection timeout when refreshing tweets
• Note added to connection failure dialog about disabling error messages
• Added keyboard shortcut for refreshing tweets (Cmd-R)

• Initial release