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Twittle is a Twitter client for Windows written in WPF and C#. You can follow us here.

Manifesto

Every Twitter client for Windows seems to to take up a taskbar worth of room when the main window is shown. This does not make any sense as it goes against the princibles that Twitter was founded on. Twitter should be a tiny experience, you shouldn’t have to see the taskbar/window restoring animation just to tweet, and it shouldn’t take the same amount of space as an application of more importance such as Microsoft Outlook or even Firefox.

Twitter is also a “Web 2.0″ utility, thus, the applications that support it should feel like “Web 2.0″ experiences. This means that traditional Window UI elements should be shuttered in favor of exciting and contrasting experiences that seem unique, fun, and lightweight.

About the developer

Twittle is my first application written for Windows. I wanted a reason to learn C# and WPF and writing a Twitter client seemed to make the most sense as a starting point. It’s feature-set is currently limited to what I already know, or what I can learn and get help with, so features will come with time. If you have any questions, comments, or forund a bug that needs to be fixed, drop me a line chris [at] millr.org.

A large portion of the code that went into this was created with the help of Josh Perry at SixBit who has enthusiastically supported this project with his infinite wisdom.