One solution – if the button was on the side next to the input field then you could have more tweets on the page. Being able to resize the widget faceplate would be good.

It’s also a little hard scroll down the tweets sometimes, I suspect this is when it locks up. Yes I noticed memory issue. Thanks for the fix.

@Craig – yes you got it, the thing I have found that makes Twitter popular is that it doesn’t need your constant attention like a IRC room, you can leave it and come back later and catch up in a minute or so. The ability to scan all the conversions rapidly on one screen is the key.

“However it’s very limited in desktop real estate”

Could I just clarify what you mean here? I want to do at least one more set of feature enhancements before I call Twitgit ‘1.0’ and screen usage is one such thing I’d like to make more flexible.

Is your problem that the widget is too large, or too small? Is it that you can’t resize it, or is it that perhaps the spacing around the ‘twitter’ button at the base is disproportionately large?

In what I hope will be a solution to all those, I hope to make the widget resizable, and offer a mini-mode toggle as well, with a smaller posting box/button for those who like their widgets lean.

— I also want to sort out the maddening issues with the widget locking up (fixable by hitting Cmd+R to refresh the Widget) and the horrendous memory leak (resolved only by closing and recreating the widget).

We’re thinking about adding another view mode to Twitterrific — something that shows the entire tweet in a scrollable list. Not an easy thing to implement, but would be helpful for viewing “conversations”.

In the meantime, use the arrow keys to quickly scan through the list of tweets. That combined with the tab key lets you quickly navigate and post.

-ch