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TweetHub
Revision as of 08:55, 21 April 2009 by Unnamed Poltroon (Talk)
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!
- Tweet (send message)
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