*Chirp: Twitter Client for Windows 7 & Vista
There are many Twitter desktop clients out there, but the new *chirp Twitter desktop client claims it is not only a glorified readers like others. It provides the best experience you ever had by taking advantage of the OS’s built in graphical subsystem WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation). The other client using the same WPF is Witty.
“Say hello to *chirp. Now you can experience Twitter in a whole new way”. Below are the highlights
Unlimited *chirps
With *chirp you can view unlimited tweets. Just continue to scroll and tweets will load and display automatically..
New tweets and inline replies
Click the update icon from the bottom menu and a new text entry field will appear.
Tweets can only be a fixed number of characters per message. *chirp displays how many characters you have left using large numbers behind your tweet so you know when you’re about to run out of space.
And replying to a tweet couldn’t be easier: just click the reply icon and the tweet you’re replying to will flip, revealing a entry field. Direct messages and re-tweets work the same way.
See the full conversation
You get a tweet, but it’s a reply to something you said earlier and you can’t quite remember what it was you said.
Usually, there isn’t a good way to see the first part of your conversation, but with *chirp, simply click on the arrow before the username and voila! Your tweet will flip in-place revealing the first part of your conversation.
Get *chirps HERE!
Be nice if it worked. Or if there was some way to get support. The website is pretty, as I’m sure the software is, but it doesn’t really provide any info.
Jim, have you tried it and it does not work for you?
i tried it and it is very nice for a first release. i hope they add the @replies to be displayed inline from people i dont follow.
hope that made sense.
Yeah, all I get on startup is a pane with what appears to be a bullet hole. It’s mildly amusing as a broken window, but rather useless as twitter client. And the .net 3.5 sp1 version just crashes immediately on startup. I suppose I’d be less annoyed if the website was less “fluffy” and more informative. I am interested in trying it, perhaps after tonight’s update.