Chirp '09

Chirp is a free Dashboard widget that will help you to easily and quickly update your Twitter status and view your friends' latest updates.
Twitter has been nicknamed the "telegraph system" of Web 2.0 by technologist Nicholas Carr.

Now, that telegraph system is brought to your desktop with Chirp. Chirp is the easiest way to post updates to your Twitter status, and view what your friends are doing.

Twitter is the world's most revolutionary mini-blogging service...brought right to your desktop by Chirp!

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

New Features:
· Added Jaiku integration.
· New set of six nature-themed color schemes.
· Added Identi.ca support for private/direct messages and @ Reply marking.
· New caching features support live timestamping and an indicator showing the last successful connection.
· Complete re-write of the core from scratch, using many of the methods and techniques found in Sam Stephenson's Prototype framework.
· Chirp now uses JSON instead of XML to communicate with the server.

Bug Fixes and Improvements:
· Added relative time support for months and years.
· Added a check so that pasting into the text area wouldn't overflow the character counter.
· Fixed a bug where searching wouldn't correctly search updates containing commas.
· Fixed a posting bug which truncated posts containing non-ASCII characters.
· Chirp no longer attempts to refresh the feed if the preferences are shown.
· Added a new loading indicator.
· Changed the wording of the errors to make them more informative.
· Lowered the request timeout to 15 seconds (...