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I really enjoy the Twhirl interface, most notably the easy access of Twitter features. I also appreciate the multiple color schemes for the program, and was thinking last night that it would be great to have the ability to tweak the colors further. From there, my mind extrapolated the possibilities of user-created skins or themes. Not only would this allow users to more thoroughly customize the interface, but could build a community of theme designers who live-and-breathe Twhirl tweaking. (:

I’ve noticed that Twhirl doesn’t display all of the same characters as Twitter supports. With the recent surge in popularity of “TwitterKeys” [ http://is.gd/2Kjy ], for example, users have been making more prolific use of non-standard characters that display properly within the Twitter interface. However, when these characters are displayed in Twhirl, they appear as an empty box.

I propose two things: First, it would be great for Twhirl to have the ability to display these characters as intended. Secondly (and more ‘want/would be nice’ than ‘need/really should have’), I think it would kick an enormous amount of ass if there was an integrated tool within the Twhirl GUI to facilitate use of these symbols, alà an icon similar to that for the URL shortening tool. A user clicks on the special characters icon and voilà! A menu appears offering selection of characters.

This could extend well-beyond the mere inclusion of ♥, ♒, ◊, ☢, ☠, ♫, and so on. This function would also be really useful for those discussing world currencies, foreign characters (e.g. à, é, è, ç, ê, ñ, ¿) from English-language keyboards, and other common symbols for which there’s no direct keyboard key (e.g. 1⁄2, o, ©, ®, ¢) but that Twitter still supports.

http://present.ly already has a twitter compatible API so it should be very easy to integrate.

I would love to see integration of facebook status updates in twhirl. being able to keep an eye on friends status updates and respond to them all in one easy location would be so handy!

Although I am sure this has already been suggested in other avenues, I didn't see it here, so I will add it. I would love to be able to see the Twitter, Laconi.ca (TWiT Army) and identi.ca, among others, Public Timelines.

Since twhirl lives in the system tray, could you add the facility to remind users to tweet occasionally?

I imagine this working in two (three?) possible ways:

1) Gentle Reminders -- After a user-configurable period (30 min, 1 hour, 4 hours, 24 hours, etc) twhirl would popup a "What are you doing?" window/balloon, with the option to type a tweet in the window, or to close the reminder. (I'd pick every 4 hours, but that's just me.) The reminder balloon should probably auto-close after a short period, so users don't get frustrated by having to manually close it every time.

2) Nagging -- As above, but if the user closes/ignores the reminder, it pops up again with steadily increasing frequency (eg twice as often, up to a maximum frequency of every five minutes?) until the user makes a tweet, then resets back to the gentle reminder frequency. (This is the option I would prefer.)

A third, more complex option is to programmatically determine how often the user tweets via twhirl (or, for new users, how often they've tweeted in the past), or if they tweet at particular times of the day, and set the reminders to activate at those times.

I use brightkite to update twitter so I'd really like to use twhirl to update brightkite so that I can be a bit more seamless. Thanks.

I'd would like poprl.com support added. It's a great shortening service that drives traffic back to my popular links.

Can we get a choice of URL shorteners rather than being forced to use Twitter's choice of TinyURL? Or even better a choice not to use one at all. If I don't need to shorten my URL to fit into 140 characters why should I? I understand this is mostly Twitter but is there anything Twhirl can do since I know myself and many others use it for almost everything related to Twitter?

instead of having to have 2 separate windows open for identi.ca & twitter cant we have a option to have them in one ?

i like having friendfeed seperate but i hate having the Micro-blogging sites seperate