Bling Tweets now supports OAuth

As most of you may know, Twitter has made it mandatory for all Twitter Clients to use OAuth for authentication. The move to OAuth will mean increased security and a better experience. Applications won’t store your username and password, and if you change your password, applications will continue to work. This goes into effect today and thus it called for a change to Bling Tweets also.

We are excited to release the latest version of Bling Tweets which supports OAuth so that you can keep using Twitter and read those wonderful tweets using Bling Tweets.

Happy Tweeting !!

You can download the new versions of Bling Tweets (ver 0.9.6) here.

Tweet at Ease

The last update of Bling Tweets while fixing multiple issues introduced a new one. The problem was when you were trying to respond to a tweet, either DM/RT or Reply back, on the refresh of new tweets, you would lose all text that you had written till that time as the client would take you to the beginning of your timeline. Apologies for all the trouble this caused to all. Good news is we have fixed the issue. Now whenever the Bling Tweets client will refresh, you would see a message at the top which will tell you the number of new tweets  you have received since the last update and the Tweets/Mentions/DMs and Favorites tab will show the number of tweets you have received. Only when you click the “click here to load” will the client load the new tweets and take you to the start of timeline. This ensures that your edits are safe from any new refreshes.

We hope that this will ensure a better experience for you. Happy Tweeting !!

You can download the new versions of Bling Tweets (ver 0.9.6) here.

New Version of Bling Tweets Available to Download

It’s been a while since we released the first version of Bling Tweets. During this time, Twitter made multiple new releases of their own, for e.g. new Retweet feature, Lists etc. The new release of Bling Tweets (ver 0.9.5) incorporates most of the latest changes in Twitter API. Notable new improvements and features in the latest release include:

1. Better Performance – Actually I should say, Much Better Performance, the previous app was memory intensive and there was some leakage also. This would often result in crashes of the app. In this release, we have changed our memory management implementation and this changed the performance drastically. You will find that the app is more responsive and stable now.
2. Retweets (RT) Implementation – This is one of the major additions in this release. We now support the Twitter way of Retweets and our previous implementation where you can edit the Tweet before you post the same. For all tweets shared using Twitter way (Retweet button as shown below), the tweets will not show in your timeline but these will be available to your followers. You can still use the old method of Retweet and edit a tweet as you like.
   
   Any tweet Retweeted by people you follow, will appear with the green colored RT icon as shown below. You will be able to see the avatar of the original sender and when you hover over the green colored RT icon, you will be able to see the name of the person who Retweeted.
   
3. Lists – Bling Tweets supports the complete Lists functionality including ways to create (or delete) your own, add users to these Lists by searching or adding from your followers list, show tweets for a selected list. When you click on the Lists in the top menu, you get to see the following view. The view shows all the lists following you, lists you are following and your own created lists. Below each List name, you get to know the number of people in the list and people following that particular list. You can also create new lists using this view. When you click the List name you will be able to read all the Tweets in that particular list.
   
   You can edit any list, modify name/description, add/delete members using the Edit List option. You can also add members to any list from the Followers or Following Panel as shown below.
   
4. Trends – We have added a new Trends menu option. At any given point of time you will be able to see all the current Trends.
   

And ofcourse there have been numerous bug fixes and improvements. We hope these changes and new feature additions will ensure you have the best experience using Bling Tweets. Happy Tweeting !!

You can download the new versions of Bling Tweets here.

Lauching Bling Tweets (beta)

It brings me great pleasure in launching Bling Tweets (beta) - A free WPF based Twitter client. Bling Tweets provides a very interactive way of reading and writing tweets. It uses a lot of features provided by Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation technology. Some of the main features of application include:

• Tweet directly from Bling Tweets; share photos (using TwitPic) or web links (using TinyURL)


• Manage conversations with @replies, direct messages; Favorite Tweets


• Search tweets using Twitter Search; follow topics using saved searches


• Organize friends using Groups


• Stay updated with the latest Trends


• Check who you are Following and your Followers


• Follow/Unfollow friends from the client


• Personalize Client using themes from Settings Panel


• Customize how many tweets you get and the refresh interval


• View profile of any user by clicking on the photograph of the user


• Photo Display in the client itself from TwitPic & YFrog


• English Spellcheck


• Shorten long URLs using Tinyurl service


• Automatically find tweets mentioning your @username

Please see this is a very early beta release so we would appreciate any feedback on the same. Few ways to contact us to share feedback would be by mail - blingtweets@live.in or via twitter, @bling_tweets.