TweetHub

TweetHub is a rich user interface built over the Twitter provider using RCP.

Requirements

The following is a list of requirements for both the UI and provider levels

User Interface

• Provide the following views:
  • Tweet (send message)
    • Shorten the text as you type (Eat up vowels to reduce message length).
  • Mentions
  • Direct Messages
    • Auto Reply? (I'm away on vacation)
  • Sent Messages
  • Favourites
  • People
    • Following
    • Followers
    • Stalk (follow without adding to "follow" list)
  • Groups
  • Search
  • Trends - not sure how necessary this is!

Avatar actions Whereever the avatar appears allow:

• RT, Reply and DM.
• Tooltip displaying profile

Tweet View

• Tab completion in the Tweet view for all @ addressed users in your follow lists
• Provide a URL shortening service in the tweet view (e.g., tr.im)
• Provide a picture service in the tweet view (e.g., pic.im)

General

• Mark new tweets/read tweets
• Notification of new tweets, and new additions to search
• On mouseover of a shortened link, show the full link in a tooltip. (Maybe provide an option for this)
• Perhaps provide a view of sent/recieved links?
• Provide a Translate option through Google Translate?
• Allow multiple accounts
• Spell checker?

Preferences

• Update rate (keep in mind the Twitter API call limit of 100 per hour)
• Autologin
• System tray integration?

Provider

• Change the client name from Twitter4J to TweetHub