DestroyTwitter 2.0 Preview: Account canvas
In DestroyTwitter 2.0, the Account canvas gets a major overhaul. As much as it was nice to change your name, bio, and location in 1.x, I found most people only used it once, if at all. I also discovered that more users were interested in seeing their own profile and viewing it in the People canvas made it a pain, constantly needing to reload.
Because of these issues, the Account canvas in 2.0 extends the People canvas. It displays the active user’s info, including API status, in semi-realtime. This means any time you login, tweet, send a DM, receive a DM, follow someone or unfollow someone, this info is updated without using an additional API call. The API status is actually updated any time DestroyTwitter receives any data from the Twitter API without using an additional call. Also, when you click a user’s icon or username in a tweet, if it’s the active account, DestroyTwitter will know to go to the Account canvas rather than the People canvas.
This screenshot does lack a few buttons I plan to add, such as logout, but it’s mostly all done. I’m really excited about these fine-tunings and improvements over 1.x. Do realize I’m working every night to get this out the door. It’s coming along, but will endure a solid private testing period. I’ll make an announcement soon regarding how to sign up. In the meantime, hold tight.
Will you be able to click the user’s avatar within the Account canvas to view a larger version of it?
Looks very nice. Any plans for the release date?
Are those normal Mac buttons I see up at the top left? Pleeeeeeaaaaasssse don’t take the cool (current) ones away!
Sounds and looks good, but will there be a button to press or something that will allow us to edit our profile?
We should all get that many API calls
20 thousand API calls! Wowzers!
“We should all get that many API calls”
“20 thousand API calls! Wowzers!”
The advantages of being a developer.
@Matthew @Ryan @Gizzmo — And I still run out! :p
Insane!
You forgot to mention the most important thing… menu bar icon by default? minimize to menu bar?!? (on osx that is)
Otherwise, looks great, thanks for the hard work!
I really love DestroyTwitter.
I can’t wait to have DT 2.0 in my pc.
Unfortunately, those aren’t exactly possible with the current version of AIR. Maybe it will be in AIR 2.0.
By far, DT’s still the best desktop Twitter app there is. Keep up the great work Jonnie! Looking forward to the release of 2.0.
We Love DestroyTwitter!
Now, the Air is released 2.0 beta 2. Can I wait the DT 2.0 and support 3rd party of twitter API proxy(Just like the twip and birdnest) ?
The Iranian and Chinese gov is baned the twitter, we must using the 3rd party client and 3rd party API proxy to access twitter.
Some apps for mobile can support the 3rd party API proxy, like the tweetie for iPhone, twitterrific for iPhone, twitbird for iPhone and more…
We need it! Thanks very much!