Buzzbird 0.7

Buzzbird 0.7 is considered as a convenient and useful source, easy to use Twitter client. Buzzbird is built on Mozilla’s XUL platform, the same technology that is used in the Firefox Web Browser, Thunderbird E-mail client, and Songbird Media Player, which means Buzzbird can be multi-platform and still run natively.

Major Features:

1. Multiple Account Support
2. Desktop notifications
3. Service filtering
4. Conversation views
5. Selective filter views (can choose Timeline, @mentions, direct mentions)
6. Retweet, Reply, Unfollow, and Favorite button on each Tweet
7. Built-in URL Shortening (currently via is.gd)
8. Menu to insert emoji in tweets
9. Read/Unread count in status bar
10. Click on a users avatar to see more information about them, or to follow/unfollow them.

Enhancements:

• No more 401 errors.
• Notifications! You can now configure Buzzbird to notify you when mentions, DMs, or plain old tweets come in.  On Mac, the Growl framework is used.  On Linux, I’m using the notify-send utility that comes with libnotify.  Windows doesn’t really have a de-facto notification system, so I’m using the Mozilla notification system that comes with XULrunner on that platform.
• Issue 41: The Post button is now disabled when it should be.
• Issue 40: Implemented a pooling mechanism for XMLHttpRequests so the app won’t get constipated when network timeouts happen.
• Issue 32: Don’t truncate retweets at 140 characters in the post window – let the user decide how to truncate.
• Issue 31: Auto-close the post area after posting (this behavior is configurable)
• Issue 30: Added keyboard shortcut for “Post” action (accel + return)
• Issue 29: Focus should be on post area when user clicks Post button.
• Issue 7: Press Return to Post is now configurable.