TwickerTape

All of the features available in the Windows version are now available for Linux user!

TwickerTape is a tiny scrolling Twitter client designed to sit at the top or bottom of your screen and just scroll the latest tweets. You can scroll horizontally or vertically and vertical scrolling can also be controlled by the up and down arrow keys.

See a weblink inside a tweet? No probs - just click on the tweet and the web link will launch in your browser.

TwickerTape will also save your settings and allows you to control the scroll speed vertically and horizontally.

This new Linux 0.10.39 version is compatible with any Linux distro with GTK+ 2.0 or better (which is pretty much all of the major distros released in the last two years!)

You can grab the new version from the DOWNLOAD page.

TwickerTape has only been in existence less than a week but already it’s delivering some pretty decent functionality in a new and unusual interface. So if you’re not happy with the Twitter clients you’ve tried so far, why not give TwickerTape a go? You’ve got nothing to lose and you might just find it a great little Twitter client to have when you still need to be able to do other things…

Build 0.10.38 introduces the ability to navigate and scroll through tweets in VERTICAL mode using the up and down arrow keys.

The cool thing is that the tweets will still cycle around you but if you’re in a hurry or you missed a tweet, you can use the arrow keys to speed up or backtrack through the tweet list to find the tweet you missed.

It’s blowing our own trumpet, but we definitely think that’s a pretty cool new feature. We’ll be looking to do this in HORIZONTAL scroll mode shortly (one thing at a time…)

We’re working on the Linux version but for the moment, Build 0.10.38 is available for Windows only (2000/XP/Vista/7 Beta).

Grab it from the DOWNLOAD page!

It’s been a busy time at the TwickerTape sweatshop - we’ve been busy ironing out bugs as well as adding a number of new features:

* Press the home key to return you to Tweet #1 i.e the first tweet of your friends list
* There’s also a new “[1]” button to do the same thing with your mouse
* TwickerTape now remembers you scroll settings as well as its screen location (where you place it on your desktop).
* It also now snaps into position with respect to the top of the Task Bar - just click and drag TwickerTape towards the Start/TaskBar and you’ll see what we mean.
* TwickerTape now remembers your username - for security reasons, you still have to type in your password but it makes it quicker and easier to launch.

The new version is available for Windows only (for now) from the Download page! Enjoy.

We’ve been beevering away adding more features to TwickerTape and we thought it time to update the version number.

We’re not quite ready to call it version 1.0 but we’re pretty close.

This new version is 0.10.3 and the big new feature is the choice of vertical or horizontal scrolling.

The horizontal scrolling looks the same as before - a silky smooth ticker-tape just like you see with the share market reports on TV.

The vertical scrolling displays each tweet for a time of you choosing, then vertical scrolls to the next tweet.

You can choose between the two on the settings window (click Set) and TwickerTape remembers the scroll speed settingss for both directions.

We’ve also made the interface itself fractionally smaller so it takes up less screen space but the controls and text all remain the original size.

At the moment, this bi-direction scrolling is only available on the new 0.10.3 version for Windows. Will update the Linux version shortly.

But for Windows users, you’ve now got the choice for your ticker-tape Twitter feed - you can go horizontal or vertical. Enjoy.

(Thanks to Ian Yates for the vertical scrolling idea - if you have any ideas, drop us a comment below.)

The new side-scrolling ticker-tape Twitter client has now reached Linux!

Same features as the Windows version but now available for any Linux distro with at least GTK+ 2.0 or better.

TwickerTape allows you to see your friends tweets and keep working by using just a small sliver of screen to show you the tweet scroll.

Both the Windows and Linux versions are just 1.1MB to download and are available at the Download tab.

You can set the scroll speed in one of two ways - you can click the Set button to open up the options window just above the TwickerTape feed and move the Twicker speed slider. Move it to the left makes it scroll faster, to the right, slower.

Or, you can simply click-and-drag your mouse on the tweet scroll in the direction of the scroll and at the speed you want it to scroll at. TwickerTape will readjust the speed as soon as you let go of the mouse button.

To send a tweet, just click on the Tweet button to open up the Tweet entry mode.

You can grab a copy of TwickerTape from clicking on the Download tab.

Just made a couple of changes to the code - you can never tweak too much…

Build 0.9.14 fixes a couple of small bugs with the display of the following/followers/tweet count display that wasn’t quite working correctly. It should be fine now.

TwickerTape is a side-scrolling ticker-tape style Twitter client that enables you to Twitter on any screen but still keep doing what you were doing while the tweets scroll at a speed of your choosing just above the Windows Start bar.

If you have any comments about TwickerTape, please leave a comment below. Thanks.

Twitter is great but when you’re working on your computer, you have to basically drop what you’re doing in order to keep any eye on your Twitter feed.

TwickerTape allows you to have your feed scrolling across the screen while you go about your everyday tasks. It sits itself just about your Windows Start bar and will happily sit there and scroll the latest Tweets from your friends.

TwickerTape is at version 0.9 so we think it’s pretty darn close to version 1.0.

TwickerTape allows you to:

* set the scroll speed by either using the settings panel or by simply swiping your mouse across the tweet scroll at the speed you want.
* set it up to automatically update your friend’s tweets in time intervals of three to 60 minutes.
* keep track of your follower, following and tweet counts.
* send a tweet to Twitter along with a character count so you know how long your tweet is.
* Click on any tweet on the tweet scroll to launch the web link in that tweet.

We’ve got ideas for more features but for now, we’ll nail down any last remaining bugs and get TwickerTape to version 1.0.

And yep, the scrolling is silky smooth.

At the moment, TwickerTape requires Windows 2000, XP, Vista or Windows 7 beta and we are working on a Linux version too.

TwickerTape is a cool, new way to keep up with your friends without having to take your eye of your daily work.