windows MetroTwit 1.0 released

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

MetroTwit 1.0 now available

Two years ago, I posted a little crud Photoshop mockup on this blog.

Recently we broke our record of over 8,000 unique/active users on a single day. Today, we?re releasing version 1.0 of MetroTwit with the much anticipated multi-account feature for professional users.

With all the blood and sweat David Golden, Winston Pang and I have put into taming the beast that is WPF, I?m unashamed to tell you all to download and try it now.

Source: istartedsomething.com

Link: MetroTwit website

View: MetroTwit 1.0 change log

Download: MetroTwit 1.0 (.NET 4 runtime required)

[PGHammer]

YES! Finally a Twitter application that gets it!

My biggest complaint about Twitter applications is that they are a PITA to use (even if you want to just *read* tweets, let alone retweet) - which is why I have avoided most of them (and had actually let my Twitter account languish).

MetroTwit (which works a treat on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, by the way - it will also work on *any* version of Windows on which .NET Framework 4 has been installed) gets it right.

Biggest surprise - it's *not* a WinRT application, despite the use of Metro's design language; it's that oddity of oddities, a Metro Win32 application that runs in a window. (The fact that it will run happily on Windows 7 sticks a major pin in anyone saying that Metro won't work there.)

[Dot Matrix]

This needs to be ported to a Windows 8 app.

I wonder if these guys would look into doing a "MetroBook" app as well.

[Duffydemon]

It is perfect example of Metro app done right.

[Aethec]

Biggest surprise - it's *not* a WinRT application, despite the use of Metro's design language; it's that oddity of oddities, a Metro Win32 application that runs in a window. (The fact that it will run happily on Windows 7 sticks a major pin in anyone saying that Metro won't work there.)

It's not really a Win32 app, since WPF draws everything via DirectX and only calls Win32 to create the window.

I think you're mixing up "Metro" and "WinRT". Metro is a design language ; you could create a Linux Metro app. WinRT is the new Windows API which currently runs over the NT kernel, and only exists on Windows 8.

Creating a Metro app for Windows using WPF is simple. (then, you have to make it look great, which is not that simple)