digiTweet – an Open Source WPF Desktop Twitter Client
I love Twitter. Like many users I have moved away from the website to a client application (Powerful software, combined with the cloud – sound familiar?).
I used to tweet using TweetDeck and twhirl which can be loaded on every PC, Mac or Ubuntu machine. However, being a .NET and WPF guy, there are a few things that bug me about most Twitter clients.
- Most of the Twitter clients run in AIR, being a great cross-platform (I use Windows only) light-weight (not so light) applications. I’m sure the amazing .NET community can do it better.
- Being a cross-platform application, they give up all the great Windows stuff, especially Windows 7.
- Being a .NET guy, I’m partial to apps that are build with .NET, especially WPF, and I would love to see a Twitter client written in WPF or Silverlight.
Now, the only solution to my bothers is the developer community to want it happen. They got the power. This brings us to digiTweet.
digiTweet is an Open Source project, sponsored initially by my team at Microsoft Canada in conjunction with friends at Digiflare.
DigiTweet is obviously a desktop application for Twitter. It is built completely using .NET technologies and takes particular advantage of the power of WPF. Additionally, DigiTweet will be implementing several Windows 7 specific features in the coming weeks.
You can sneak preview it on flickr.
Why do we need another Twitter client? I think that a WPF powered application, combined with the power of Windows can provide Twitter users with an amazing experience.
This is why the DigiTweet application is an open source project at Codeplex. It brings many innovative developers to contribute to making this the best Twitter client for Windows (and hopefully showcase what WPF can do along the way).
So, give digiTweet a try. More importantly, download the code and try make it better.
You can also follow digiTweet’s progress on Twitter @digi_tweet.
Janiv.