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