Twitterrific: What Are You Up To?

twitterrific_icon.pngThe latest trend on the internet is Twitter. Twitter is a new web application used for staying in touch and keeping up with friends - no matter where you are or what you’re doing. Invite your friends to Twitter, send updates to your account, and decide how connected you want you to be.

Personally, this service has helped me filterout the common IM messages I receive on iChat, which ask me “What’s up”? Using Twitter and Twitterrific I can publish what I am up to on the web and keep clear of pointless iChat conversations.

Twitterrific is an application which sits in the comfort of your menu-bar, and makes posting and viewing “Tweets” easy and simple.

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Many have started using Twitterrific instead of the normal web interface of Twitter, to post and view entries on the site. Once you have your buddy list setup, you will receive notifications by a chirping sound and a pop-up window when a friend changes their status.

Alternatively you can change Twitterrific to display Tweets from the public list. The update time interval can be changed within the preference window.

You can view entries by clicking on someone’s name, and update your status by clicking in the text box and pressing enter to submit a status once you’ve written it. It even shows how many characters you have left to use, updated instantly while you are writing - a handy feature for those explaining in detail what they are doing..

One of the best features of Twitterrific is not a real feature, but it’s incredibly slick and glossy user interface. It’s a pleasure to use thanks to the great developers of The IconFactory.

Sign up for a Twitter account and download Twitterrific to let people all around the globe know what are you up to.

How do you like the Twitter service? A productivity killer, cool, or both?

Comments

  1. #1

    Glenn Wolsey → www.glennwolsey.com

    For those interested, here is my Twitter URL: http://twitter.com/GlennWolsey

  2. #2

    William Wilkinson → www.williamwilkinson.com

    What the? Our menu bars are EBACTLY the same. Been copying me I see ;).

  3. #3

    William Wilkinson → www.williamwilkinson.com

    *EXACTLY

    Yes, I realize that I came off stupid there.

  4. #4

    Chris McElligott → theflanneleffect.com

    It’s one of the cooler new apps this year, makes Twitter far more fun to use.

  5. #5

    Glenn Wolsey → www.glennwolsey.com

    Are you serious William? Link me to a picture, I’d love to see :-D

    Chris, I totally agree. It’s a very fun app to use.

  6. #6

    zzap → zzaps.com

    I was using it a few months before it became mainstream, and I found it great for the first few weeks, but to continue updating it every time you do something is tiring and boring; so I’m wondering if this will happen to the rest of the community. Hopefully this Twitterriffic will stop that from happening… we’ll see.

  7. #7

    wphj → www.wphj.wordpress.com

    I’ll get myself an account, but my friends aren’t that likely to jump on the bandwagon. So I doubt I’ll get to much use out of it.

    Shame, that app looks so good!

  8. #8

    Dway

    I tried Twitter and Twitterific, but I saw it useless. The App looks gorgeous though!

    Glad to see that you use CoverSutra too, Glenn. ;)
    It’s a great app.

  9. #9

    Dway

    Btw, if you use Twitterific, check out Twittereeze. It’s a SIMBL plug-in, and adds some new functionality to Twitterific.

  10. #10

    Sam → www.gosammy.com

    Twitterific makes using Twitter a whole lot easier, it’s the reason I joined the service!

  11. #11

    Rennervater → renner.wordpress.com

    I love it :) Who cares about productivity :)

  12. #12

    Glenn Wolsey → www.glennwolsey.com

    Dway, CoverSutra is an amazing application, expect a write-up soon.

  13. #13

    Caitlyn Imburgo → www.alwaysg5.com

    I have been hearing buzz about Twitter but never really understood it until I read this post. Cool, thanks, Glenn. :)

    Anyway, Twitterific seems more like the kind of thing Twitter needs. I can’t see logging onto the site every time I want to update it. It may be a productivity killer but it’s fun so… ;)

  14. #14

    DeathAxe → blog.deathaxe.net

    Just joined this. So addictive!
    Add me if you want
    :-D
    http://twitter.com/DeathAxe

  15. #15

    Richard

    Just joined to try it out.

    http://twitter.com/rws

  16. #16

    Steffan Williams → www.steffanwilliams.co.uk/blog

    I really wasn’t sure about this but now it seems kinda cool! Especially since Twitterific makes it so easy.

    Damn. =P

    Anyway, I’ve joined so if anyone here wants me:

    http://twitter.com/steffanwilliams

  17. #17

    Twitter: The SMS version of blogging « pitsharing.com - about Web 2.0, Widgets, Mobility & Apple → pitsharing.com/2007/03/23/twitter-the-sms-version-of-blogging

    [...] post from any place (a web page, a web widget, a mobile phone, a firefox extension, a mac app…) a quick status of what you’re doing, your mood where you are… or anything you [...]

  18. #18

    Jay Robinson → www.hip-hop-anonymous.com

    Why not? http://twitter.com/jayrobinson83
    Also on AIM and GMail (for real chatting!)

  19. #19

    Chris Thomson → christhomsonblog.com

    Awww, the good ol’ days of Twitterrific 1.x … I really like Twitter, and I can’t imagine using Twitter without Twitterrific.

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