MetroTwit Changelog

What's new in MetroTwit 1.1.0.3134 Beta

Feb 24, 2014
  • Added support for custom Twitter API tokens

New in MetroTwit 1.1.0.3133 Beta (Feb 17, 2014)

  • Added cross-account retweeting
  • Fixed mentions not loading when there are no new mentions
  • Fixed crashes with keyboard navigation
  • Fixed scrolling performance with lots of images
  • Fixed other rare crashes

New in MetroTwit 1.1.0.3122 Beta (Dec 3, 2013)

  • Fixed unfollowing users
  • Changed style of error prompts

New in MetroTwit 1.1.0.3119 Beta (Dec 3, 2013)

  • Whole new window-ing system that should reduce the bugs related to moving/resizing the window
  • Removed yFrog image service and defaulted Twitter Pic
  • Added scrolling buttons to accounts list (really added this time, apologies last update wasn’t properly deployed)

New in MetroTwit 1.1.0.3113 Beta (Dec 3, 2013)

  • Added scrolling buttons to accounts list

New in MetroTwit 1.1.0.3108 Beta (Dec 3, 2013)

  • Fixed activity popup crashing on double click
  • Further attempts to fix crashes

New in MetroTwit 1.1.0.3107 Beta (Dec 3, 2013)

  • Fixed DMs with links not showing

New in MetroTwit 1.1.0.3076 (Jul 17, 2013)

  • Fixed tweet counter not counting image upload

New in MetroTwit 1.1.0.3075 (Mar 4, 2013)

  • Updated to utilize Twitter API 1.1
  • Added retweet blocking in searches
  • Refreshed user interface style
  • Many performance improvements
  • Fixed crash when displaying some Unicode tweets with usernames, hashtags or links
  • Changed layout for consistency with Twitter’s new display guidelines
  • Changed default notifications to only mentions and direct messages
  • Added native Twitter picture, YouTube, Instagram, SkyDrive previews
  • Added support for native Twitter Pic upload (existing users must change their Services setting)
  • Added support for SHIFT+mouse for horizontal scroll
  • Added support for Microsoft .NET 4.5 – read additional explanation here
  • Added checkbox option for pressing ENTER to send tweet
  • Added user avatar to notifications
  • Added “unsubscribe” to followed lists
  • Changed all API endpoints to SSL
  • Removed hover-to-expand shortened URLs
  • Removed “public tweets” and “retweets by me” columns as they are no longer supported by Twitter
  • Fixed tweet counter for new URL length
  • Fixed deleting direct messages
  • Fixed possible crash when resuming app from extended idle
  • Fixed issue when typing and pressing ENTER to quickly submitting incomplete tweet
  • Improved handling of Twitter rate limit and Twitter API errors
  • Fixed report tweet as spam error
  • Fixed filtering text in URLs
  • Fixed showing blocked users in lists
  • Fixed geotagged Tweet map not displaying correct location
  • Fixed more clicking unread marker that caused app to crash
  • Fixed significant performance and memory issues
  • Removed support for Windows XP
  • Fixed update changelog not displaying
  • Fixed not being to add or remove accounts in certain scenarios
  • Fixed sent DMs show as unread
  • Fixed Windows 8 Aero coloring
  • Added window border to Windows 8
  • Fixed crash if Twitter entities not returning properly
  • Fixed notifications grouping if notification already showing
  • Fixed ads not displaying properly
  • Fixed sometimes clicking links in notifications opening two browser windows
  • Fixed crashing when scrolling with unread marker or PageUp/PageDown
  • Fixed “added to list” grammar in activities
  • Fixed long “my list” names
  • Fixed “Worldwide” trend to top of trends list dropdown

New in MetroTwit 1.0.1.0 (Apr 20, 2012)

  • Added CTRL+D keyboard shortcut for tweet favoriting
  • Added show retweets option for list columns
  • Added color accent previews
  • Fixed user profile long bios to fixed size
  • Fixed daily and weekly trends
  • Fixed favoriting own tweets not showing star
  • Fixed rare crash on application close
  • Fixed some columns incorrectly adding to taskbar count
  • Fixed filtering not accepting multiple words
  • Fixed “My retweets” column not showing clickable links
  • Fixed ads refresh rate for multiple account users
  • Attempted fix for crashing when blocking users
  • Fixed crashing when Twitter application access revoked for any application
  • Attempted fix for media previews to fit in very small displays
  • Fixed left/right arrow crashing when switching to empty column
  • Fixed rare crash on removing accounts
  • Fixed “open in browser” opening blank tabs
  • Fixed multiple Twitter activities duplication after multiple streams running
  • Fixed backlog flushing crash
  • Fixed rare inline error crash
  • Fixed rare media preview crash
  • Fixed block user tweets showing in search
  • Fixed removing corrupted cache items
  • Fixed blocked users retweets showing up in columns
  • Attempted fix for aggregate exceptions crashes
  • Attempted fix null twitter stream event
  • Fixed ad “share tweet” not working
  • Fixed changing themes causes new tweets to not be rendered
  • Attempted fix for crash with status deleted collection
  • Fixed settings multi-account horizontal scrolling overflow
  • Fixed combobox dark theme color for Windows 8 Aero Basic
  • Fixed Aero theme changing
  • Fixed TwitLonger setting not saving
  • Fixed infinite loop CPU/API usage when viewing conversation of protected account
  • Fixed random white pixels in UI caused by planets aligning and WPF
  • Fixed settings screen hiding sidebar preview when no image selected

New in MetroTwit 1.0.0.0 (Mar 27, 2012)

  • Added multiple account support
  • Added support for filtering
  • Added new out-of-box-experience for first time users
  • Added ability to preview larger user avatars
  • Added undo tweet functionality
  • Added Twitter events support for user follows, list membership and tweet favorites
  • Added support for adding users to lists
  • Added user full name to username autocomplete
  • Added CTRL+F shortcut to quickly activate search
  • Added remove column confirmation
  • Added faux border for when DWM shadows are not available
  • Added sidebar artwork
  • Added “compact sidebar” functionality
  • Added button to indicate custom column sizing
  • Added CTRL+TAB shortcut to switch between accounts
  • Added left/right arrow shortcut to navigate columns
  • Added add to filter shortcut by right clicking on hashtags and usernames
  • Added double-click column heading shortcut to scroll to top and mark tweets as read
  • Added “duplicate tweet “error message
  • Added ability to mention user from profile options
  • Added inline errors to application and columns
  • Added error prompt about Windows 8 compatibility
  • Changed Embed.ly media preview to NoEmbed (work in progress, stylings incomplete)
  • Changed code signing certificate to Comodo (Will prompt install)
  • Changed “What’s happening” text to include account name
  • Changed settings default to not show “name of Twitter application”
  • Changed empty tweet columns to show “No tweets” message
  • Changed restart button in update screen to be at top of screen (will show on next update)
  • Changed unread marker to be smaller in scrollbar and scrollbar thumb to be larger
  • Changed default URL shortening to native t.co
  • Changed retweeted by tooltip to include username text
  • Updated visual style of buttons in light theme
  • Removed favorite button from tweet on hover
  • Removed “public” column due to Twitter announcing it would discontinue it
  • Fixed direct message permalink not going to useful URL
  • Fixed direct messages displaying weirdly if text included &
  • Fixed potential crash with notifications
  • Fixed international characters when typing hashtags
  • Fixed typing illegal characters in username search
  • Fixed possible crash when user cache was updated while new tweet was received
  • Fixed usernames, hashtags and URLs appearing broken in user profile bios
  • Fixed favorite columns to support infinite scroll
  • Fixed username/hashtag parsing to conform to latest Twitter guidelines
  • Fixed empty search results for random corrupt results from Twitter
  • Fixed changing reply tweet to direct message does not send
  • Fixed large progress bars under Windows 8 Aero Lite
  • Fixed dark theme autocomplete black text under Windows 8 Aero Lite
  • Fixed “favourite tweet” in context menu (for our bureaucratic American buddies)
  • Fixed hashtags and usernames not displaying properly in some search column tweets
  • Fixed blank search columns do not get refreshed
  • Fixed rare cache issue causing 100% CPU load at startup
  • Fixed retweets not showing usernames/full name as per display setting
  • Fixed potential crash caused by AddInProcess
  • Fixed crash when horizontal scrolling with Logitech or Apple mouse drivers
  • Changed MetroTwit server API calls to HTTPS for enhanced privacy
  • Fixed changing themes sometimes wouldn’t show dialog
  • Fixed adding image to tweet ensure URL has prepend space
  • Fixed notification crash if set to monitor which has been disconnected
  • Fixed closing window when maximized overriding the restored window size
  • Fixed minimize and restore resizing bug
  • Fixed MetroTwit not displaying on same-resolution secondary displays if no longer connected
  • Fixed window maximizing issue with multi-monitors
  • Fixed streaming error text
  • Tweaked calendar blackout to use cursor instead of cross
  • Fixed links not opening in browser for notifications of search columns
  • Removed popup column animation to improve performance
  • Fixed twitlonger showing up when character count was less than 140 using native t.co shortening
  • Fixed direct messages not showing both username/full name
  • Fixed rare Aero Snap issues

New in MetroTwit 0.9.3.0 Beta (Dec 28, 2011)

  • Fixed view conversation to display tweets instantly than waiting for whole thread
  • Changed URL shortening setting to show native Twitter URL shortening
  • Fixed pause columns utilizing the new backlog functionality
  • Fixed URLs not counting correctly in tweet compose box
  • Fixed media preview for very small images not appear tiny
  • Fixed MetroTwit Plus verification to email addresses with “plus” symbols
  • Fixed context-menu text appearing black on dark theme for Windows 8 Aero Basic users
  • Fixed changing themes leading to columns no longer adapting to resizing
  • Fixed media preview crashing for corrupt images
  • Changed Proxlet naming in settings to generic “API Proxy”
  • Fixed copying tweets with square brackets becoming HTML entities
  • Attempted fix at profile corruption issue by reducing the number of save points
  • Added pasting links prepend space before to prevent unclickable links
  • Fixed duplicate tweets when resuming from Twitter streaming disconnect
  • Added support for profile updating event from Twitter streaming
  • Fixed high DPI bug popup column positioning
  • Tweaked inline popup positioning logic when the screen might not fit
  • Fixed copying expanded URL overriding normal URL
  • Fixed popup column crashing if closing while moving back
  • Fix blocked users tweet being retweeted in the timeline
  • Fixed tweet buttons disabled if sending tweet failed once
  • Fixed notification toast to show at least two lines of text with RT
  • Optimized media preview to not jitter at launch
  • Fixing resizing bug if lots of columns displayed
  • Changed MetroTwit Plus verification failing on some locales
  • Tweaked ad refresh cycle now adaptive to inactive/idle application
  • Attempt to fix tweet fade in animation which caused invisible tweets
  • Removed the retweet grouping functionality which deleted the original tweet
  • Removed arrows and animations from popups for performance
  • Fixed a popup column positioning bug after cycling back/forward
  • Fixed popup column might appear out of screen
  • Fixed URL displays to new Twitter format
  • Added support for Twitter entities in Twitter searches
  • Swapped RT/refresh icons to be more consistent with UI standards
  • Changed profile column layout
  • Fixed tweets appearing out of order when streaming
  • Added new sign-in experience to simplify the Twitter OAuth process
  • Added error if computer time is off and streaming cannot connect
  • Fixed trends showing selected location name by accident
  • Fixed media previews to use new Embed.ly service
  • Fixed taskbar notification not updating after settings change
  • Added a tip to bypass media preview
  • Changed style of overlays, introduced popup column overlay
  • Tweaked size of popup columns
  • Fixed pressing “c” accidentally closing windows

New in MetroTwit 0.9.2.0 Beta (Nov 29, 2011)

  • Added “save search”, “remove saved search” and recent searches functionality
  • Added local/weekly/daily trends support
  • Added new and more reliable “keep scroll at top” behavior
  • Fixed “show all replies from friends” option not working
  • Fixed favorites column constantly refreshing
  • Fixed support for GIF images in media uploading
  • Fixed profile avatar disappearing after tweeting
  • Fixed support for horizontal mouse tilting to scroll left/right in columns
  • Fixed rare media popup window crashing on load
  • Fixed invalid focus of tweet box after sending a tweet
  • Fixed notifications positioning away from bottom corners
  • Tweaked button design style
  • Tweaked direct message layout style
  • Tweaked ad display style
  • Fixed bit.ly “Find API key” link
  • Fixed “service disrupted” typo

New in MetroTwit 0.9.1.0 Beta (Nov 3, 2011)

  • Added advanced search builder for complex searches
  • Fixed media preview descriptions with clickable links
  • Changed unread marker to be more visible on top of scrollbar
  • Changed ad colours to use accent color and added label
  • Changed layout design on popups to improve performance
  • Improved network performance when communicating to Twitter and services
  • Fixed issues with proxies using Basic or Integrated Authentication (new Settings for Basic Proxies)
  • Fixed corrupted settings or cache files crashing MetroTwit
  • Fixed a number of window position and sizing problems on startup and maximise
  • Fixed infinite scrolling on profile columns
  • Fixed issue with tweets being removed incorrectly from columns
  • Fixed issue with saving settings very quickly after opening
  • Fixed profile popup when opening from Incoming/Outgoing Friendship request
  • Fixed link displays from Twitter without http://
  • Fixed issues causing avatars to not download or cache correctly
  • Fixed bit.ly URL Shortening with special characters
  • Fixed mark all as read and unread marker not updating
  • Fixed timestamp to use Windows regional setting
  • Fixed update dialog for small screen resolutions
  • Fixed rare autocomplete crashing
  • Fixed rare notification crashing
  • Fixed popup errors stacking if sign in failed

New in MetroTwit 0.9.0.0 Beta (Oct 17, 2011)

  • Introducing ads and MetroTwit Plus – check blog for more details
  • Countless performance improvements and tweaks
  • Added backlog feature to collate streaming updates for a single update
  • Added support for selectable tweet font sizes
  • Added ability to “undo retweets”
  • Added loading animation to tweet columns
  • Added pause indicator to columns that are paused
  • Added support for viewing follow requests for private accounts
  • Added ability to disable link shortening
  • Added “copy tweet link” to tweet context menu
  • Added grouping of retweets
  • Added ability to rename columns
  • Added verified account icon to tweet columns
  • Changed style of tweet metadata and buttons to be more streamline
  • Improved “keep scroll when refreshing” behavior
  • Reduced tweet duplications in alerts and notifications
  • Enhanced secure encryption of OAuth token
  • Fixed Unicode text in tweets could exceed boundary of tweet
  • Fixed Twitter sign in crashing when user’s computer time is not correct
  • Fixed Twitter trends display
  • Fixed username autocomplete behavior to be more consistent with non-alphanumeric characters
  • Fixed support for Microsoft Mouse back button in popup columns
  • Fixed ClearType not displaying for popup columns
  • Fixed showing retweets in notifications
  • Fixed pasting text from OneNote
  • Fixed accidentally sending tweets while “shortening” URLs
  • Fixed not being able to send multi-line tweets
  • Fixed Twitter usernames not showing on search columns when display set to “full name only”
  • Fixed high DPI issues for first-launch and popups

New in MetroTwit 0.8.1.0 Beta (Jun 21, 2011)

  • Fixed rare reconnect/disconnect issues with streaming
  • Fixed authentication issues behind proxy
  • Fixed restart after applying update (will take effect next update)
  • Fixed popup columns appearing misplaced
  • Fixed rare empty mentions column
  • Fixed retweet count to be more consistent
  • Fixed rare crash with autocomplete
  • Fixed maximized window overlapping auto-hidden Windows taskbar
  • Removed WhatTheTrends support (too unreliable)

New in MetroTwit 0.8.0.2 Beta (Jun 14, 2011)

  • Fixed endless loop authenticating due to change in response from Twitter

New in MetroTwit 0.8.0.1 Beta (Jun 13, 2011)

  • Fixed streaming columns not updating after a while
  • Fixed username autocomplete not working
  • Fixed j.mp pro not working correctly

New in MetroTwit 0.8.0.0 Beta (Jun 13, 2011)

  • Added Twitter streaming API support for friends, mentions and DM columns
  • Added unread marker and unread scroll jump-to
  • Added scroll to top shortcut by clicking column title
  • Added keyboard and mouse “back” button support for popup columns
  • Added new tweet animation for fluid scroll
  • Added “Retweeted by” grouping to native retweets in mentions
  • Added request for new direct message permission due to Twitter policy change
  • Added support for j.mp pro
  • Fixed columns with Twitter Photo links appearing blank
  • Fixed “keep scroll position when refreshing” to be more consistent
  • Fixed many memory leaks
  • Fixed loading image previews would freeze the application
  • Fixed TwitPic image uploading failing intermittently
  • Fixed ability to incorrectly retweet protected tweets
  • Fixed hashtag autocomplete to not insert by default
  • Fixed “forget account” not working in unauthorized dialog
  • Fixed loading speed of settings page
  • Changed design to optimize for negative space
  • Changed “keep scroll position when refreshing” to default to off
  • Changed default image provider for new users to “yFrog”

New in MetroTwit 0.7.1.0 Beta (Jun 13, 2011)

  • Fixed in-app updater not automatically checking for updates and applying updates
  • Fixed not able to copy direct messages and tweets in search columns
  • Fixed favourites column not displaying any tweets
  • Fixed username autocomplete not properly populated
  • Fixed autocomplete not automatically scrolling to selected item
  • Fixed user avatars randomly failing to display
  • Fixed “Follow” button appearing on own profile
  • Fixed crash when viewing conversations from search columns

New in MetroTwit 0.7.0.1 Beta (Apr 28, 2011)

  • Fixed crashing when displaying video media previews (ex. YouTube)

New in MetroTwit 0.7.0.0 Beta (Apr 28, 2011)

  • Added previews for third-party media services (ex. YouTube, TwitPic)
  • Added inline popup UI elements for non-modal workflow
  • Added icon to timeline to indicate tweet from protected account
  • Added ability to block/report user when viewing tweets
  • Changed styling of various controls to be more consistent with Metro design style
  • Changed styling of retweet label to be less distracting
  • Changed copying tweet text to include author username
  • Fixed memory leaks after displaying notifications
  • Fixed removing tweets from blocked/reported users
  • Fixed losing keyboard focus when writing new tweet
  • Fixed saving tweet read state across sessions
  • Fixed pinning not immediately displaying the column
  • Fixed autocomplete not selecting the optimal result
  • Fixed styling of popup columns to stand out more
  • Fixed adding/editing trends not displayed correctly
  • Fixed popup columns not aligned correctly under high DPI
  • Fixed various elements not displaying correctly under high DPI
  • Fixed mark tweet as read not working if selected tweet was a retweet
  • Fixed being able to pin a conversation column
  • Fixed touch panning support in settings
  • Fixed some scenarios where direct messages would not send
  • Fixed bug consuming excessive Twitter API calls when composing direct messages
  • Fixed “Find API key” link for URL shorteners not working

New in MetroTwit 0.6.1.0 Beta (Mar 17, 2011)

  • Temporarily suspending 140proof ads – please read MetroTwit blog for more information
  • Fixed memory leak with popup columns not closing correctly
  • Fixed ENTER to submit tweet not working if autocomplete is disabled
  • Fixed inconsistency of “View conversation” icon in profile columns
  • Added “Copy expanded URL”
  • Tweaked “Keep selected scroll position when refreshing” to show at least one new tweet

New in MetroTwit 0.6.0.0 Beta (Mar 17, 2011)

  • Added 140proof integration to support future development efforts
  • Fixed popup column positioning when using a high DPI setting
  • Fixed multi-monitor oddities with popup columns
  • Fixed “keep scroll position when refreshing” logic to be predictable
  • Fixed quoting a retweet with special text characters
  • Fixed Aero Snap sometimes accidentally triggering when clicking the top bar
  • Fixed tweeting character count to improve responsiveness of typing
  • Fixed Twitter sign in timeout not handled correctly
  • Fixed user profiles to be collapsible
  • Fixed pasting clipboard images from Paint appearing solid white
  • Fixed linebreaks for update release notes (will take effect next update)
  • Fixed rare crash at launch when constructing autocomplete collection