• I was at David Webb pulling for a celebrity client today and although I have worked with the label for years,… http://t.co/s81jq9Ys
  —@BeagyStyle (Beagy Zielinski)
• Custom Tumblr Blog by MG: http://t.co/1Jvs6kwg …Your feed back is Greatly appreciated =) | Client: @JSuper601
  —@MoneyGraphics (Money)
• I was at David Webb pulling for a celebrity client today and although I have worked with the label for years,… http://t.co/S5CCFOJC
  —@BeagyStyle (Beagy Zielinski)
• clientsfromhell: http://t.co/HwXyh6ZB
  —@donovoncarter (Donovon Carter)
• clientsfromhell: http://t.co/dRx3kmMm
  —@slatios (Anthony Martin)
• David Webb – I was at David Webb pulling for a celebrity client today and although I have worked with the… http://t.co/SITh8tld
  —@BeagyStyle (Beagy Zielinski)
• ([COUGH] http://t.co/jH9P567U [COUGH @louiscordice COUGH])
  —@Blaise_Zab (Blaise Zabini ♕)
• Photo: Me training David, my 11 yr old client with cerebral palsy. His mom was almost in tears because I… http://t.co/zJykN3aP
  —@AdaptWellness (Adapt Wellness)
• Cool! I just saw Crystal at #newspapersAtl event RT @TurbineFashion: Client Spotlight -Tanya Evong & Crystal Murray http://t.co/MLDQfGFb
  —@pamelaHFX (Pamela Lovelace)
• Photo: A beautiful look with a production that perfectly fits the concept of the client! (via The Solar… http://t.co/cEbpCXhj
  —@tweetachuck (Charles)
• clientsfromhell: http://t.co/3eLRVBKK
  —@SoraZG (Dubravko Sorić)
• Photo: Gave my client a 180 layered haircut today & styled it. http://t.co/ZntOVmX2
  —@Brown__Shuga (Cami )
• http://t.co/8heC3NBs @smalltimeparty that is said cardigan
  —@theimajanaetion (Janae )
• http://t.co/XkjIGMTE
  —@Poynterine (Horanlahousse Vador)
• FOR INFO ON MUSIC VIDEO PRODUCTIONS @REBIRTHNYCFILMS/TUMBLR. "AS OUR CLIENT, YOU WILL LIKE WHAT YOU SEE".
  —@REBNYCFILMS (REBIRTHNYCFILMS)

• Photo: luxury-andfashion: http://t.co/RWFYz62K
  —@glamalamodee (:-))
• Photo: http://t.co/tMNZSAZY
  —@nicoles1505 (#1 BELIEBER )
• Photo: › [ ][HIPSTER BLOG] › › [HIPSTER BLOG] › › [HIPSTER BLOG] http://t.co/BQzyidVZ
  —@Bi3berSayWhat (Mac Miller.)
• Photo: surf-slut: http://t.co/77LTLiQg
  —@Bi3berSayWhat (Mac Miller.)
• Photo: callmeslutty: http://t.co/giqd11nC
  —@Bi3berSayWhat (Mac Miller.)
• Photo: http://t.co/7K73×28f
  —@Bi3berSayWhat (Mac Miller.)
• Photo: th4nk-a-sk4nk: http://t.co/uVD3w3fu
  —@Bi3berSayWhat (Mac Miller.)
• Photo: callmeslutty: http://t.co/1BTKxhhp
  —@Bi3berSayWhat (Mac Miller.)
• Photo: http://t.co/Cs1vnQFC
  —@Bi3berSayWhat (Mac Miller.)
• Photo: http://t.co/fzM3K5tc
  —@nicoles1505 (#1 BELIEBER )
• evernotestatus: http://t.co/D6E5GWy0
  —@taoyan_ni (taoyan_ni)
• Photoset: MAC Cosmetics at Munthe plus Simonsen, AW12 Copenhagen Fashion Week http://t.co/kSsZ9sXz
  —@ModaPreview (Moda Preview Int’l)
• Photo: http://t.co/Hz5lM2NM
  —@nicoles1505 (#1 BELIEBER )

• Beelog – Tumblr client for #Mac http://t.co/6Gnqh9yQ
  —@acaPAWN7 (Khairul Ashraf)
• Beelog 1.2.6 – An easy-to-use, visually pleasing Tumblr client. http://t.co/LE7IROyJ
  —@MacUpdate (MacUpdate)
• Hibari: A Mac Twitter client with keyword filtering, muting, inline saved search results, inline… http://t.co/rOCPZK48
  —@jerrydaniels (Jerry Daniels)
• Beelog 1.2.5 – An easy-to-use, visually pleasing Tumblr client. http://t.co/LE7IROyJ
  —@MacUpdate (MacUpdate)
• Mac向けTumblrクライアント”Beelog” http://t.co/5cOyOnmZ
  —@mr_ke (ぶれん坊)
• RT @amatanoyo: Mac向けTumblrクライアント"Beelog" http://t.co/AtuqhVcW
  —@beelogmac (Beelog)
• RT @amatanoyo: Mac向けTumblrクライアント"Beelog" http://t.co/AtuqhVcW
  —@kyu3 (kyu3)
• Mac向けTumblrクライアント”Beelog” http://t.co/I5xLznbj
  —@BanditSky (BanditSky)
• Mac向けTumblrクライアント"Beelog" http://t.co/AtuqhVcW
  —@amatanoyo (Sekai Amata)

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!

• @Madbeaver10 Twitter, Twisted by Sara Shepard, mac n cheese
  —@kittiekat722 (Nikki)
• Сначала вас заставят купить iPod, потом iPhone, Mac и Moleskine. http://t.co/9qvud90J
  —@ybiziqez (Holsworth Schilke)
• Aaw! K lindo cokito! RT @zepolg: The best thing I own… Apart from my Mac http://t.co/SRv9LHr0
  —@AideG19 (Aide Guerra)
• RT @Kaitlyn_Tanggg: Congrats Roma and Mac ! <3 http://t.co/D53nmacv
  —@allysonxlynn (allyson clark)
• Dear people of twitter @BebeJesus is using a utensil to eat Mac n cheese for the 1st time. After 30 different specialized types we FOUND ONE
  —@Twisted4Jordan (Karenita Kansas)
• @beccablmradke im on the twitter app for mac
  —@NinaPoof (Alexandria)
• RT @SayitAint_Shati: Twitter kills off a new person everyday. Wiz, Mac Miller, Souljaboy, Eddie Murphy, now Drake
  —@SkyscrapingHere (Lexi. Just Lexi.)
• RT @SayitAint_Shati: Twitter kills off a new person everyday. Wiz, Mac Miller, Souljaboy, Eddie Murphy, now Drake
  —@jaayyROZAY (that guy.)
• RT @TheHideoutWPG: Giving away 2 FREE tickets to Mac Miller all you have to do to enter is – mention us on twitter or RT this! End March.1st!
  —@jdderk (JD )
• Twitter kills off a new person everyday. Wiz, Mac Miller, Souljaboy, Eddie Murphy, now Drake
  —@SayitAint_Shati (⚡Shatiana!⚡)
• “@Toshia_Mac: I loveeee that @Izzy_Rivera has a twitter now ” right its bout damn time!
  —@ElijahMilton (Elijah)
• Blogs2 new results for "Estee Lauder" "Cosmetics" Networked Politics » Blog Archive » Love and using MAC Cosmeti… http://t.co/I7pXd7Oy
  —@women_products (WOMEN Products Info)
• Twitter kills more people than anyone else I know. Mac Miller, Eddie Murphy and now Drake?! #twitterisamurder
  —@Ecstasyy__ (That Dude. )
• @GadgetsVictor idk. I use Twitter for Mac
  —@SebastienPage (Sebastien Page)
• Twitter for Mac
  —@_KiddLex (A l E X i S . . )

• …but for all that money, EA\/Bioware couldn’t make a Mac native client? So sad. –Fandyllic
  —@garciae8 (Garcia Ernest)
• @suzu880 輝bot「ぅあっ…（天城先輩の女子人気、低過ぎ…？）」 http://t.co/8VrwIfcX 寿司いいなー、ｽｼｯﾃﾗｰ｡(・∀・)ﾉｼ
  —@ende_mai (まい)
• Went totally ghetto tonight. Chicken, Mac n Cheese & Corn. The client & their kids are always right. I’ll forgive myself eventually. #humble
  —@KittyKooks (Kitty Cat)
• Blink Lite 1.6.0 – Easy-to-use SIP client.. (Commercial): Blink Lite is a state-of-the-art, easy-to-use SIP clie… http://t.co/oLguO4pM
  —@TrojanWatch (Trojan Watch)
• @mrtiedt @ben_hr It’s an android client though. On the mac I use YoruFukoru which does them and doesn’t tweetbot do it on iphone?
  —@pat_gardner (Pat Gardner)
• Blink Lite 1.6.0 – Easy-to-use SIP client. http://t.co/AQsh6Xyf
  —@MacUpdate (MacUpdate)
• …but for all that money, EA/Bioware couldn’t make a Mac native client? So sad. –Fandyllic
  —@wowwiki (WoWWiki.com)
• Dantz Dev. RETRO CLIENT 1 PACK UPG MAC 5.1 ( CU24G516510 ): http://t.co/t2ybkJ8V
  —@Yurikozvw (Yuriko Stonestreet)
• Cappuccino 1.2 – Google Reader client.. (Free) http://t.co/yxzQTMy9
  —@pmamiaro (Pablo Mamiaro)
• Cappuccino 1.2 – Google Reader client.. (Free): Cappuccino is a Google Reader Client.⁰Features:⁰Sync with Google… http://t.co/zUjVNWln
  —@MoJoGeek (Mojo Geek)
• @SHkiyolove お店、詳細見つけましたｖここです！海鮮出汁のスンドゥブ絶品ですｖhttp://t.co/guWnIf4S
  そうですね‥‥確かに、ラミーンがロンドンで舞台に上がっている時に、ここにいた自分の幸運に最大級の感謝しときますっ！
  —@sand_moor (sand)
• @BlizzardCSEU_EN Great job with the 64bit Mac client. Works like a charm. Thanks, Blizz!
  —@qu1cke (quickes wohnzimmer)
• う、うまそう…！http://t.co/xJ5Ll9Fa　
  —@tondemiso_bot (向日岳人)
• Apple Mac OS X Server and Client Engineer, London http://t.co/JkhUXRx7
  —@itjobman (Craig Jobman)
• @handcarvedcode Any plans on a Mac client to tie in with Priorities? I would use that for EVERYTHING.
  —@mikeahmarani (Mike Ahmarani)