• 99 Problems But A Pitch Aint One – http://t.co/7CEePho4
  —@MrsPed (Stacy Pederson)
• RT @TanyaOz: This is what I think of Klout. http://t.co/zMnH083B
  —@SonicFoundation (Bradley)
• RT @lisaalvey: “@TanyaOz: This is what I think of Klout. http://t.co/YSnFL8ZD”
  —@SonicFoundation (Bradley)
• @null　@RumiRemi　http://t.co/9ob3hKUA
  —@RumiRemi (空き缶@例大祭い26b)
• “@TanyaOz: This is what I think of Klout. http://t.co/YSnFL8ZD”
  —@lisaalvey (Lisa Alvey)
• This is what I think of Klout. http://t.co/zMnH083B
  —@TanyaOz (Tanya Osegueda)
• @MassiveGeeks Saw on Tumblr, very glad my Twitter client doesn’t display trends right now.
  —@Cecilia_Ryan (Cecilia Ryan)
• Red Bull Tweets to Beats – Agency: TBWA Tequila Client: Red Bull Australia From maniacs in wing suits to… http://t.co/jT52qDkJ
  —@AdShred (AdShred)
• Haha! !!! RT @malhope: @alexa_rey http://t.co/PW27ydqi
  —@alexa_rey (Alexa Rey)
• @alexa_rey http://t.co/CWPMfbR5
  —@malhope (Mallory L)
• Photo: damnthatswhack: http://t.co/OzvOnrCU
  —@PensAndGoats (Pens Are Pretty Cool)
• Excellent Post for RMO doctor in Central London – Londonjobs London, Midas NDT Systems Ltd My Client is a… http://t.co/QlYaiX8h
  —@4londonjob (4londonjobs)
• http://t.co/8NX1BUh9 UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH ! hes too fine. i cant…..ok im done
  —@AutumnNAlston (Autumn Alston)
• Photo: (vía Deliver Great Service to Your Client – And See Your Profits Soar | Articles | instantShift) http://t.co/j51MTeJJ
  —@lunatix (lunatix Warez)
• When a client makes revisions to a press release that makes it read like marketing collateral.. RT “@jessicabyu http://t.co/VONbmtUl”
  —@gabriel3rd (Gabe Guerrero)

• Photo: mancrushoftheday: http://t.co/nn1eU6Nj
  —@sofuknfamus (Broque)
• Photo: Will Chalker | MAC. Visit The Man Crush Blog | Twitter | Facebook | Google+ http://t.co/ZXzxy0c3
  —@man_crush (The Man Crush Blog)
• 単純に絵柄として胸熱。“@tanaka_mac: 香川スゴイ、すでにワールドクラス？RT@10000000000yen: Photo: スゴい！メッシとクリスチアーノロナウドの間に　( ﾟдﾟ)　 toronei: http://t.co/ZzcDR7Jn”
  —@jojotaikoyaro (jojo)
• Apple Mac mini MA206LL/A 1.66 GHz Intel Core Duo 512 MB RAM http://t.co/V91Zknbk http://t.co/cIoeFpAy
  —@oyipasmajava (oyipas majava)
• RT @WTG_MollyPop: Photo: haha http://t.co/mvmQUqLn
  —@Daimo_Mac (Wil Mckerracher)
• Audio: harrykawaii: http://t.co/7XxVtffm
  —@JDB4President (Beavis and Butthead)
• Photo: udperro: http://t.co/v0Y9FZB8
  —@Melkor_DVP (David Valdebenito)
• Photo: preciouspow: http://t.co/qg56MZG6
  —@B__Mac_ (Brandon. )
• Photo: http://t.co/Yrr6PQyf
  —@B__Mac_ (Brandon. )
• Photo: http://t.co/nBRTl6TW
  —@B__Mac_ (Brandon. )
• Photo: MAC Sci-Fidelity on lips. (Taken with instagram) http://t.co/QVM1thlN
  —@CeriInTheMist (Duvessa)
• Yomo : Simple Time Logger: JPEGmini for mac – yomoapp: http://t.co/bknJojIZ
  —@iEspressivo (hiro)
• Photo: teenvogue: WHOA http://t.co/h8DwmQ9C
  —@thatwendygirl (Wendy )
• Photo: http://t.co/i2cj2bVB
  —@B__Mac_ (Brandon. )
• KoTOR on Steam, hurray! – You’ll be surprised to see me getting all excited about the Mac port of a nine… http://t.co/wrOAaQ1Q
  —@mrvaidya (Gaurav Vaidya)

• @saeyuki_0430 あいりんの反応が思春期の男の子みたいで中学生の付き合いたてみたいな。見てる方が恥ずかしくて苦しくなってきますw相思相愛なのにってw　呼び方はあいれな・・・かな？　http://t.co/8EN8Z9nX　http://t.co/hiiVxhgi
  —@cogito666 (はやし＠(＊´∪｀)についていきます)
• Twitter Interactions On Mac Client? http://t.co/59ui1g8Q
  —@mjtweaver (Michael Weaver)
• Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac | Office For Mac – 正直、存在知らんかった。 http://t.co/L42JmJcc
  —@a_yamada24 (Akinori Yamada)
• UGH!!! – My Mac LoL client is taking forever to download!!! http://t.co/K4UacEdP
  —@TheGamerAnger (Angerday)
• Spotify Client Adds Tumblr Sharing, Instant Search: Spotify has updated its Mac and PC desktop clients with Tumb… http://t.co/57TlEJxQ
  —@levellesaltersr (LeVelle Salter Sr.)
• Tower – The most powerful Git client for Mac: Tower – The most powerful Git client for Mac: 使い慣れないと。 http://t.co/ogisBz3M
  —@hiroism000 (Hiroyuki)
• Tower – The most powerful Git client for Mac – 使い慣れないと。 http://t.co/rxkwFatM
  —@hiroism007 (luizig)
• Beelog 2.2 – An easy-to-use, visually pleasing Tumblr client.. (Commercial) http://t.co/ckxZQ50r
  —@iLiveMag (iLive Magazine)
• Beelog 2.2 – An easy-to-use, visually pleasing Tumblr client. http://t.co/LE7IROyJ
  —@MacUpdate (MacUpdate)
• RT @DeAngaloVickers: @mcorbs7 http://t.co/fWIR7v1y "There is NO pepe silvia mac!!!!! this place is a GD ghost town!!!!"
  —@mcorbs7 (Michael Corbett)
• @mcorbs7 http://t.co/fWIR7v1y "There is NO pepe silvia mac!!!!! this place is a GD ghost town!!!!"
  —@DeAngaloVickers (DeAngaloVickers)

This transformation started, as most of my transformations do, because I thought it would be easy. My understanding was that Tumblr had provided an identical API to Twitter’s; all I had to do was change the endpoint and be done.

This was true, in the simplest sense. Yes, after changing the endpoint in the code, everything worked. Kind-of. You could see the text of a bunch of Tumblr posts in the stream, and you could post some text. Amazingly, though, there was no way provided, as far as I could tell, to collect the original metadata about the Tumblr post (as opposed to its Twitter-ized version), including the PHOTOs. Tumblr is all about the photos. So, there followed a very unfortunate period of several months in which I learned to track down posts via the Tumblr API that had already been download via the Twitter-ized Tumblr API, get the photo data, and display the photo. What a mess.

Also, of course, Tumblr and Twitter are inherently different. It is conceptually difficult to translate everything you might want to do with a Twitter post into the appropriate action for a Tumblr post. I still find it non-intuitive that, in order to reblog and comment on a Tumblr post, you have to choose “Reply” in Twit Menulet. Very unsatisfying. Perhaps it will change in a future version.

In the process of doing all this, I’ve become very fond of Tumblr. Tumblr gets about 0.01% of the attention that Twitter gets, and yet I think it is the better service. It is down more often, perhaps, but Tumblr has less funding is is also dealing with a lot more data.

Enjoy your new Tumblr client!

The toughest part of developing software, though, isn’t developing it—the toughest part is selling it, by far. It is just so incredibly hard to get your software out there, in front of users who might need it, and fully explain what it can do.

In Twit Menulet’s case, surprisingly, I can’t seem to get the word out that we support Lists! Frankly, List support is easy, so I’m surprised that not every client supports lists. In fact, many clients still don’t, and many of our users choose Twit Menulet because we fully support Lists. I think Lists are great, they expose me to a lot of new Twitter users, and I wouldn’t use a client that didn’t support Lists.

This blog post is really just another attempt to get the word out. Just for fun, though, here is a table showing the status of List support in various clients:

Let’s hear it, folks! Which other Twitter clients have you tried that do—or don’t—support Lists?

• Proper handling of “native” retweets. These retweets are now incorporated into the tweetstream as they should be. The avatars for these retweets are marked with a special icon.
• Global hotkeys! This is an oft-requested feature that was sorely needed. What a pleasure! Hit Opt-command-down arrow to check the tweetstream at any time. Opt-command-left arrow toggles display of scrolling text, which some people find distracting. Opt-command-right arrow opens the “Send a tweet” panel. This hotkey alone has improved my workflow enormously, as I can copy a bit of text in my browser, jump to the send panel with my hotkey, paste the text, and rapidly send.
• Bylines and time stamps on all tweets (space permitting). These are nice to have. I think that our implementation is suitably restrained–but if you don’t like the bylines, a new preference item allows you to turn them off.
• An improved, toolbar-based preference panel. A major improvement over the tab view we used to sport!
• Auto-navigation to last tweet. This feature will send you back to the last tweet with which you interacted, on next opening the menu. This feature has saved me a lot of paging through menus in recent days.
• Stability improvements. We added quite a few of these, and I now run Twit Menulet routinely for more than a week at a time.

With these improvements, Twit Menulet is already a truly full-featured Twitter client for Mac. The next round of improvements will include support for reading RSS streams, tear-off menus, and more. I may actually give in and create a standard tweet window as an alternative to our menu-only approach. If there are additional features you’d like to see in our next version, then chime in quickly by e-mail to phil [AT] twitmenulet.com. Or reach us on Twitter at @stockmenulet.

Could run four instances of our Mac Twitter client

At least this monstrosity could run four apps at once!

In Twit Menulet, Lists achieve a status that is similar to that of accounts. You can choose to view only tweets from a certain list, or to filter tweets from that list temporarily. Twit Menulet, however, can also display Lists that are unmoored from any Twitter account; that is, you can enter a List specifier without entering any Twitter account information and the List will be displayed. This capability points the way to an eventual strategy for offering branded versions of Twit Menulet that come pre-loaded with Lists of interest to a company’s customers.

We hope you will enjoy Twit Menulet’s new capabilities!

• @xItBLikeDat_MAC @fxckyou__paymee ..i’m not good with twitter names .
  —@AyeeYoo_JaNae (charmaine ja`nae. )
• I ant have ma twitter dat long
  —@Celebrity_MAC (GBB Bookie_F_Montana)
• My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: ConeCrewDiretoria (41), Wiz Khalifa (7) & Mac Miller (7) http://t.co/bMgWfXaU
  —@feezm (Felipe m)
• @AyeeYoo_JaNae @fxckYou__PayMee should I change my Twitter name?
  —@xItBLikeDat_MAC (☆ Love Lust HUMAN ☆)
• RT @MailOnline: Mac on… What politically incorrect Prince Philip said about the lady in the zip-up red dress http://t.co/Ps81oA5H
  —@Julesm107 (mark II)
• Twitter off via android error, pake Mac aja deh!
  —@CahayaSakti12 (Cahaya Sakti ‘12)
• Hick (2011) HDRip x264 AAC-CrEwSaDe: Hick (2011) HDRip x264 AAC-CrEwSaDe Language: English Matroska | 707.1 MiB … http://t.co/um7FoGB6
  —@mac_area (mac_area)
• Heineken Cup final: Will Cavan and Monaghan rugby fans support Ulster? – BBC News: BBC NewsHeineken Cup final: W… http://t.co/0IM6RjG4
  —@mac_trolley (Mac Trolley)
• Apple Security Updates Targets Mac OS X Leopard, Flashback Trojan – eWeek: DeviceMAGApple Security Updates Targe… http://t.co/kLU7CDuR
  —@trojanremovalt (Trojan Removal Tools)
• “@HoT_ToTs @MAC_Pearls_Diva i really thought you didn’t” Lmao my noisy ass , the Twitter name was so obvious tho
  —@MAC_Pearls_Diva (Shanoah P.)
• RT @moonfoxo: studygiftってぼくが、アイコンを描きたいんだけどイラレとか電気代とか一人暮らしじゃお金かかるから電気代とネット代とサーバー代払って！10万頂戴！twitterで宣伝とかiphoneに企業のロゴ付けて町歩いてあげる！あと、新しいmacとペンタブも買ってね！ってこと？
  —@Sahdia_magi (サーディア)
• @miki_wotk 短期集中で材料を集めて、売り切った時点で終了〜なんじゃないかなーと推察。イチゴエキス？がなくなったんだよきっと。Twitter for MacはMacbook Airで使ってるアプリっすよ。ウェブブラウザ開かずにずっと表示できるから便利。
  —@cougen (yusuke)
• My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Metronomy (6), Darwin Deez (5) & Son Lux (5) http://t.co/3ilNwo0N
  —@Rob__Mac (Rob McDougall)
• studygiftってぼくが、アイコンを描きたいんだけどイラレとか電気代とか一人暮らしじゃお金かかるから電気代とネット代とサーバー代払って！10万頂戴！twitterで宣伝とかiphoneに企業のロゴ付けて町歩いてあげる！あと、新しいmacとペンタブも買ってね！ってこと？
  —@moonfoxo (月狐)
• Imma see how I like the twitter app over the echofon for Mac.
  —@mightymatt18 (Matt Ochoa)

• RT @JosephHales: YouTube – Mac Miller – Best Day Ever http://t.co/4otHojwn
  —@Phunt20 (Phillip Scott Hunt)
• Loving the new summer trend by #mac http://t.co/49kjYrZo
  —@CarrieMiriklis (Carrie Miriklis)
• しかしiOSで絵を描く人にはたまらないアイテムですねー。価格も手頃だし。ただしネーミングはアレですけど（笑）http://t.co/FD6bXTym RT: @tatkar0420: @tsukadaction でもこのペン不思議ですよね。ていうかiPadってタッチパネルに
  —@tsukadaction (tsukadaction)
• RT @macitynet: Sparrow per Mac, il client email ora compatibile con POP … http://t.co/ve3UwTFI
  —@aidiessato (Germano Santoni)
• YouTube – Mac Miller – Best Day Ever http://t.co/4otHojwn
  —@JosephHales (Joseph Hales)
• [Giveaway] Mailsum: Mac Email Client That Tells You How Well You Handle Your Mail http://t.co/9vNwTiKS
  —@cooltipsntricks (cooltipsntricks)
• [Giveaway] Mailsum: Mac Email Client That Tells You How Well You Handle Your Mail http://t.co/PdXdIS1b
  —@cooltipsntricks (cooltipsntricks)
• PUBLICITY POST! Client @seewiggins will be performing on @todayshow w @UsherRaymondIV in the AM… TUNE IN AT 8:20am!!!!!!!!
  —@Ari__Mac (Ari Mac)
• １１歳珠理奈　http://t.co/H62Fl5Cg
  —@ikko25 (いっこ)
• o.O: 褌　締め方 – Google 検索 – http://t.co/zyMIjvc4
  —@xenop (ぜのぷ)
• [B!] パトラッシュとは違うようです。 http://t.co/tdx5quiP パスティーシュ – Google 検索
  —@kanakana_ceo (カナかな団首領)
• パトラッシュとは違うようです。 / “パスティーシュ – Google 検索” http://t.co/ULocVKQx
  —@shokodei (カナかな団首領（銀河辺境）)
• Sparrow per Mac, il client email ora compatibile con POP http://t.co/ueVOBBnD
  —@ViviCapena (luca corazzi)
• あった。ソーセージマルメターノ！　https://t.co/QoLWESlo
  —@beaming_blue (玲)
• @whsmith ..which is why I want the Mac client. Syncing to rule them all!!
  —@mikequinn78 (Mike Quinn)