by Pierre Henri Kuate
26. July 2009 08:55
I have recently started using Twitter. I don't write much but I use it a lot to read news; in a way, it is like a nicer RSS reader. The first time I tried it (about a month ago), I had this idea of building a highly interactive client using its API. I am far from being the first deciding to do that.
So, I tested the most popular ones, including Sobees (a Silverlight 3 client). But I didn't really like any of them; probably because I already had a different way of interacting with Twitter. So I decided to write my own client.
I am planning to use it to demonstrate some of the techniques that I first used on KlearTouch Photos and it is completely open source (code hosted on CodePlex).
For now, I have create a simple version that emulates Twitter Search. It is available here: http://www.kleartweet.com/
For the implementation, it uses tweetsharp to communicate with the Twitter API, RichTextEdit to display the statuses and Blacklight for the draggable panels. This is simply a prototype to test some ideas (hence the version 0.2); it should grow steadily in the coming weeks.
And, I entered KlearTweet in ComponentArt's competition. So, if you can, vote for it :)
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