Appart for some little bug correction, here are the major update that have been done this week

Realtime update in title and tab bar

When Tweetcetera refresh your tweets, it display a little notification on your page displaying the number of new tweets.

Now it also display this number in your title bar and in you tab bar if you’re using a tabbed browser. That’s really convenient as you don’t need to go back to the page to view is their are updates in your network.

Real time count down

Tweetcetera now display a count down before the next auto update of your timeline, user timeline or search results.

So you now exactly when it’s going to be refreshed.

Follow cost

Tweetcetera is now using the Followcost api to display the number of average tweets/day and the number of tweets replied on a user page.

These indications, combined to the “mentioning” sidebar section, give you all the informations you need to decide if you’ll follow a user or not.

What’s next?

Next week I’ll be working on list implementation, and usernames auto completion. Please if you want to see any features, just drop me a message or comment on the getsatisfaction page or on this blog post.

\o/ \o/ Tweetcetera is now live! After several development weeks, it’s finally out!.

What’s Tweetcetera …

Tweetcetera is meant to look similar to Twitter web interface, so that you don’t need to learn how to use a new website. But we have added some nice features, which we felt were missing from the original product.
You won’t find any big revolutionary feature but we believe that big changes can come from small differences. To see what we mean by ’small differences’, have a look at the details below. And if you’re still not convinced, try it and we promise you’ll never go back to using Twitter web interface (or so we hope!).

.. In 3 words?

Twitter stupidly easy!

Give it a try

To really release Tweetcetera power, you have to use it, for 1 hour, and you’ll be convince. Please feel free to add any comment or feedbacks to develop it on the right direction.

What is tweetcetera?

Tweetcetera is a web application I’m working on the spare time. Basically, you login in with you Twitter account, and it reproduce the Twitter web interface with smarter options.

Once the beta out, I want the development to be user centred, so a uservoice will be open and everyone will be welcome to ask for new features.

What is the problem?

I had a conversation with Matt Aimonetii where I asked him to test the current version of tweetcetera.

Even if I use Twitter Oauth for the authentication (ie: I don’t store you password, you login on twitter and then are redirected to the application), there was a confidentiality problem.

His first thoughts were:

How do I know that you’re not going to use my personal informations?
How do I know that you’re not going to post analyse informations like DM or protected statuses?

I must admit that, as a fair developer, I wasn’t expecting these kind of questions. I didn’t even think about it when using another third party application to connect to Twitter.

But the question is legitimate. You don’t want to be spammed, or analyse without your contentment right?

What can I do?

As a lot of developer, I’m fair. And so are my applications. I’m not going to use informations for post analyse. But how can I transmit the message?

I don’t want to write a big warning on the landing page saying “Trust us, we are not evil!”, that would scare more people than reassure the others.

If you are using web third party app (like Seesmic for example), what makes you trust a this application? (Brand reputation? Website design? … )