Introducing *Chirp

Sean Bradford

30 January 2009 - 12:50 Hot!

If you've ever used Twitter, you've probably tried a few desktop clients that allow you to tweet without opening your web browser. Thirteen23.com, a company that focuses on delivering customers rich interactive experiences, launched it's twitter desktop client called *Chirp.

What makes *Chirp different from other twitter applications is that it's user interface is developed with the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). The program delivers a very rich Twitter experience, and isn't resource intensive. *Chirp offers the following unique features, among all the normal features of a Twitter client:

View unlimited amounts of tweets by continuing to scroll down your list.
Inline replies
See the full conversation: Simply click the arrow before the username your tweet will flip in-place revealing the first part of your conversation.
Your favorite favorites. Select your favorite favorites and you'll be notified whenever your favorite people tweet.

*Chirp is only available to Windows Vista and Windows 7 users.

View: *Chirp Home Page
Download: *Chirp v1.0
Link: Follow the development of *Chirp on Twitter

34 Comments

a simple application that used up more than 100MB of ram, no thx

kelvinlok said,

a simple application that used up more than 100MB of ram, no thx

a 100mb is nothing when you have 4GB of ram nowadays.. lol.. and most pc's that run Vista/7 should have that

TheNay said,

and most pc's that run Vista/7 should have that

LOL, that's pretty funny.

LTD said,

LOL, that's pretty funny.

really? i'd like some of what you're on. it runs fine on even 2 gb for me.
u no most macs have 2 gb ram too, THAT is pretty ridiculous considering it should be 'able to run' on much lower requirements

Imran Hussain said,

Well Macs can run perfectly fine with as little as 256 mb of RAM. I have a Power Mac G3 with 384 mb of RAM, running Tiger just fine. It can even handle some light video editing. My school's Photoshop lab consists of G5's with 512mb of RAM, and they run quite fast.
Now I'd like to see somebody run Vista with 256 mb of RAM. Even the latest OS (Leopard) only requires 512 mb of RAM to run.

I'd like someone to run Leopard on 512 Mb of ram as well as in for normal use.

DanielZ said,

If you put it that way, you can run Vista on 512mb machines as well. I had mine and it worked... but I couldn't play ANY game.

Shame Macs aren't great for gaming, so you can't say they suck because a game can't run.

100MB? Are the applications you are using do not even use 100MB??

TheNay said,

a 100mb is nothing when you have 4GB of ram nowadays.. lol.. and most pc's that run Vista/7 should have that

Beefy computers is no excuse for bad programming or plain bad design.

I don't even think about RAM anymore... It is so cheap that there is no reason to think about it...

My weakest machine (my laptop) has 4GB and my two desktops have 4GB and 8GB respectively...

Well Macs can run perfectly fine with as little as 256 mb of RAM. I have a Power Mac G3 with 384 mb of RAM, running Tiger just fine.

You can run Vista on 384mb of RAM too.

I've got it running slightly slowly, but otherwise fine for day to day use on an old laptop with 384mb in it. Sure you can't game, but you can do pretty much everything else on it without a problem.

TheNay said,

a 100mb is nothing when you have 4GB of ram nowadays.. lol.. and most pc's that run Vista/7 should have that

still, it's just the thought of it when something simple should not use that much.

and besides, not everyone has memory to burn... cause typically speaking anyone who has 1GB RAM on WindowsXP should have no problems with memory for general use.... and considering 100MB for a app like that is ridiculous when web browsers use about the same (or less)

Imran Hussain said,

I'd like someone to run Leopard on 512 Mb of ram as well as in for normal use.

it's for Windows. Talk abt windows. 'n another thing is Mac's 512 MB Ram & Windows's 2GB Ram's price are same.

Turbonium said,

Beefy computers is no excuse for bad programming or plain bad design.

^This (but with quotes, or s/is/are )

LTD said,

LOL, that's pretty funny.

What do most PCs that run Leopard have?

If the application is developed using the .net framework, then it's part of the deal. .Net reserves memory for applications and then frees it up later if another program requires it.

Looks interesting. It's nice to see programs taking advantage of WPF. I wish more would. However, if kelvinlok is right and it takes up > 100mb ram, no thanks.

I have done 'real' dev work in WPF, it's not really that great, imo

lots of bugs and blurry text ;(

lets hope the next version is better

So they advertise for their other programs but you can't download them?

Looks OK, but is a bit clunky/slow. Not as useful as TweetDeck

Thirteen23.com guys are great,Its difficult to download their stuff as well.Works in IE usually.
WPF applications are always pretty to look at but are a resource hog.Look at Zune media player great to look at but hell slow if your system isn't good.If system's good then its all great.

Nice! More apps should be like this!

Am I the only one that has issues with this program? I installed it on my Windows 7 64-bit laptop, and it works beautifully. However, on my Vista 64-bit desktop it only partially starts up - I see the program unfold in its transparency, but the spark-fireworks-ish animation only gets to the first frame and it just stays like that. Any ideas on how to fix it?

They will be releasing an update to fix that soon, and also integrate TinyURL.

Oh. Ok. How do you know?

I'm following them on Twitter. They had tweeted about it yesterday, and said it'll be pushed by night, but the update hasn't been released yet..

Do people really have nothing better to do than read tweets all day long? Seriously, if you have no life, consider this:

Start > All Programs > Games > Solitaire

That's what it's there for.

Chirp is only at about 125mb memory, where as TweetDeck is at 160mb for me. So I'm not sure why people think it's so clunky, slow and bloated.

The interface is just AWESOME! How long users were waiting for such a wonderful twitter client! Good one!

Does indeed use 100MB of RAM upon starting the program. Was up to 240MB by scrolling down a few dozen Tweets. Can't resize it, and it is a bit clunky. Nice concept, though.

Also, this is nothing new - Witty the twitter client has been around since 2007 and uses WPF.

Wow, you guys are just full of joy and grace. It seems like any time a new application release is anounced here, people pounce to say it's too big, too slow, too colorful, too this, too that, not on the Mac, offends my dog, etc. It feels like being in a room full of catty young girls or some infantile p!ssing match.

chirp is a sweet app...who said looking good is a bad thing...if ya cant handle the loss of ram then why are you even trying to run it? anyways who doesn't have 4gb these days to use?

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