So today I just checked the statistics for Twaddle and there are over 2000 users who have allowed Twaddle to communicate with the Twitter servers. Whilst I’d love for this number to be 10,000 and for each of those users to be paying me a fiver, I’m still rather happy with these figures. In order to celebrate this nice little milestone I thought I’d present you with a recent feature I implemented as part of the 0.3 release: Threaded Conversations.
Here we can see a conversation I held between my personal account and the @TwaddleWM account. You may notice a very subtle tree structure of the list – this is to indicate the hierarchy of the conversation. This view only works when statuses are properly tagged as replies to another status (which Twaddle and the Twitter website do, but some clients seem to do less reliably). I’m so far finding this feature really useful to manage long running conversations throughout the day (and you can sometimes find some great new people to follow as a result!). This interface can be brought up from any of the other views within Twaddle and allows you to interact with the tweets just like they were in your normal timeline. Expect the interface and how this is rendered to change before the final 0.3 release – this is after all just a preview! If you have any suggestions on improving the layout, I’d love to hear them.
Also, don’t forget to take part in the poll on the right hand side – it’s a great way for you to voice your views on what feature you desperately want included in 0.3 !