A minor update to the 2.3 branch of Twitterlicious fixes the Twitpocalypse bug and a security issue.
If you have Twitterlicious 2.3 or above, it will automatically update. Otherwise get it from the usual place.
Stay tuned for some major new features.
Happy holidays to everyone, this is my belated present to you all: Twitterlicious 2.3.
I know you’ve all been experiencing problems with using Twitterlicious recently due to a breaking API change. I was originally going to release a Microsoft style hotfix which just fixed that issue in the current version, but I couldn’t resist bundling in a few more features which I’ve been beta testing recently.
Changes in version 2.3:
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If you’re getting this error with Twitterlicious:
System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (417) Expectation Failed.
You are experiencing a new regression bug with the Twitter API has affected all .NET Twitter clients, including Twitterlicious.
Twitterlicious seems to be less affected than other clients: it can still get your main timeline but you can’t update your status. The stated workaround doesn’t work, so for now all .NET Twitter applications won’t work with the Twitter API.
It’s awfully nice of Twitter to make this breaking change to their API during the holiday season, and even though they know about this bug, they haven’t rolled back the changes they made. All sane .NET developers will use the HttpWebRequest class to query the API, rather than reinventing the wheel themselves. But as far as I can see, the only way to work around this is to extend the HttpWebRequest class yourself to modify the headers it sends, or handle the entire thing yourself.
This change should never have been made to the API in the first place. Whatever is the correct behaviour according to HTTP specification, whatever Twitter adopted in the first place, they should keep. APIs are supposed to be very stable, you can add new features to APIs, but the existing functions should be kept the same. Twitter’s casual attitude to their API not only shows a lack of respect for developers using their API, but also a lack of experience or expertise in the design and implementation of their entire platform.
I will continue to update Twitterlicious 2 for the foreseeable future, but I may have to re-evaluate the amount of time I’m going to spend on the next major revision.
Eight months ago, Twitterlicious 2.1 was released. Since then, I’ve just not had the time to fix some critical bugs that have been bugging me and every other Twitterlicious user out there! This new 2.2 release aims to fix the two major outstanding bugs:
With these issues hopefully now resolved, I can concentrate on new features to bring Twitterlicious in line with what the API is no capable of.
After a two month absence of Twitterlicious updates, I’ve decided to change the way the UI work and get rid of the needless tabs for replies and direct messages. Now, everything is in one list, and any replies or direct messages are highlighted accordingly — blue for replies, and brown for direct messages.
Some people also reported issues with leaving Twitterlicious running, it sometimes stops updating and needs a restart. While I’ve not been able to reproduce this, I think I’ve found the problem and hopefully my solution will work.
If you have Twitterlicious 2.0, then it should automatically inform you of the update and how to upgrade, everyone else can get it at the usual place.
Its been a long road, taking almost six months of on-and-off work to complete, but now I feel comfortable in releasing the full release of Twitterlicious 2.0. No more betas or release candidates, this is the real deal!
Download Twitterlicious 2.0 final.
A brief recap about Twitterlicious:
Twitterlicious is a small app that makes using Twitter more fun. It handles all the hard work, leaving you to read and write tweets with the minimum fuss. Best of all, Twitterlicious is free!
Compare to how Twitterlicious 1.2 looked.
A big thanks to all the beta testers for all your feedback, you’ve made Twitterlicious into what it is today and its better for it. If I were more organised, I would have a list of all your name, but I think you all know who you are.
Make sure you subscribe to the feed (or a feed for posts only about Twitterlicious), but it would be nice to keep you as a regular reader on Ejecutive.)”: to keep up to date with developments with Twitterlicious and other projects, you can also follow me on Twitter.
After such a long time working on one side project, its left me a little jaded with Twitterlicious, so for now its just going to be minor features and bug fixes (keep those reports and requests coming in). I’m going to focus my attention on going back to my final year of university and some other side projects I have going. I’ve also neglected Ejecutive recently with the frequency of posts, and I have a plan to fix that too, and maybe spruce up the archives a little.
But don’t think for a second that Twitterlicious is dead, I’ve started to look at learning Windows Presentation Foundation, and Twitterlicious seems an ideal candidate to experiment with. So the future is bright.
The major changes since Twitterlicious 1.2:
Ctrl + W: minimise the Twitterlicious main window.Ctrl + R: manually refresh the lists.Ctrl + K: mark all tweets in the current list as read.Ctrl + Return: send update (same as clicking “Go”).Ctrl + L: opens the link in the selected tweet in a browser window.Ctrl + U: marks the current selected tweet as unread.Ctrl + D: sends a direct text to the selected tweet’s user.Ctrl + E: replys to the selected tweet (@username).Ctrl + B: view the selected tweet in the browser.Ctrl + T: view the selected tweet’s user’s website.Changes since Twitterlicious 2.0 RC1:
Here we are, the feature complete Twitterlicious 2.0 with four heavily requested features:
Also the last few bugs squashed:
This should be the only release candidate before the final 2.0 release and this should be the last time you’ll have to manually check for updates! So for the last time, get it from the usual place.
Twitterrific for the iPhone. Made me think that porting Twitterlicious to Windows Mobile wouldn’t be that difficult.
This is biggest update since the initial 2.0 beta, you can now see replies and direct messages sent to you in seperate tabs, and respond to them.
This update was supposed to include an auto-update feature, however that still isn’t ready even for a beta and I thought the new features and bug fixes were important enough to warrant their own release.
The change log for this release since beta 3 is:
WARNING_EW_SHUTDOWN_CANCELLED.Get it from the usual place (hopefully for the penultimate time.)
Whoops, looks like I didn’t upload Twitterlicious 2.0 Beta 3 properly and people were still downloading Beta 2. My apologies for that. I’ve now fixed the link.
It’s been exactly a month since the last Twitterlicious release, so it’s about time for another one. This release is for the users of Twitterlicious, as the majority of the updates were requested by yourselves:
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Following on from bug reports and feedback given for Twitterlicious 2.0 beta 1, I’ve added a lot of usability improvements this time that don’t revolve around the user interface. If you like using keyboard shortcuts and not the mouse, then you’ll love this release. If you like using the mouse, then you’ll love this release too! Something for everyone!
Thanks to everyone who gave feedback, you make Twitterlicious better.
Get it from the usual place.
Changelog (from beta 1 to beta 2):
Ctrl + C), only the tweet’s text is copied instead of the whole row.Ctrl + L: opens the link in the selected tweet in a browser window.Ctrl + U: marks the current selected tweet as unread.Ctrl + D: sends a direct text to the selected tweet’s user.Ctrl + E: replys to the selected tweet (@username).Ctrl + B: view the selected tweet in the browser.Ctrl + T: view the selected tweet’s user’s website.Ctrl + F: add the selected tweet as a favourate (currently disabled awaiting API updates).Return now updates the tweet instead of appending a new line in the text box. Ctrl + Return now appends a new line.Ctrl + A) is fixed for the text box.
Twitterlicious 2.0 beta 1 is now available for download, and with a huge list of changes. Notable improvements include a new twitter list and shortcut buttons! I’ve implemented the most requested features, but if you do have more requests or ideas do get in contact.
Remember this is a beta release, there are bugs (notably with the new twit notification system), but it’s in a usable state. I would usually say don’t use this for business critical applications blah blah blah—but I don’t think anyone uses Twitter for business so you should be fine. Any problems or bugs you find, please do report them, same with any other problems you find with Twitterlicious.
Oh, I know I said you shouldn’t need to enter your credentials again, but you’re going to have again to with version 2.0!
The changes include:
Ctrl + W — minimise the Twitterlicious main window.Ctrl + R — refresh.Ctrl + K — mark all twits as read.Ctrl + Return — send update (same as clicking “Go”)Now stop reading and get downloading!
Twitterlicious 2.0 has been in the works for a while now and is taking a lot longer than I expected. You got a small taste of what’s to come in the 1.2 release, but here’s a preview of the completely redesigned interface in 2.0:
I’ve finally managed to implement a list with in-line twits reliably, which makes the interface far more powerful and simple in the process. Stay tuned for the inevitable beta release.
While it’s been a month since the last Twitterlicious release, I’ve been busily working on version 2.0 of Twitterlicious. Unfortunately, time constraints and the fact that I’m going into unknown territory with what I’ve got planned for v2.0, means it probably won’t be out for at least another month.
However, in the mean time I want to release an interim 1.2 version that features many of the improvements that I’ve planned for the 2.0 release, including a lot of requests.
Improvements and bug fixes include:
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Another day, another Twitterlicious release. This one fixes the upgrade problems (it now uninstalls the previous version), introduces a new welcome screen that makes setting up Twitterlicious easier, and a bug found by Anna Creech in the XML parsing.
You may notice even if you have used Twitterlicious before you get the new user welcome screen. Unfortunatly this was unavoidable and you’ll need to enter your details in again.
A slight update to fix a time bug in 1.1.2. Please remember to uninstall the previous version before installing the new version.
Another new version of Twitterlicous, this time to support some API changes to improve the speed of Twitter. Download from the regular place.
This should be the final bug fix to Twitterlicious before the next major revision. This release fixes a proxy bug that prevented it working with some proxy servers, and a major bug where the application would sometimes crash after a user updated their status.
As usual get it from the project page.
Another update to Twitterlicious, but this time it includes some feature enhancements so the version number goes upto 1.1:
As always download from the project page.