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I would love some sort of visual queue when you have a direct message versus normal tweets... any by visual queue (flashing or different color icon?) I mean something in your task bar/dashboard not just when I have the app open. Another way would be to have direct messages stay at the top of your snitter box until you acknowledge them.

Love snitter! Keep up the good work.

A bunch of people have agreed with me one of the main problems with twitter clients is that it makes little sense to catch up a backlog of messages by starting at the bottom, scrolling upwards, and yet reading each message from top to bottom.

It would be great to have an option to order tweets so the most recent was at the bottom, and as they came in, it pushed other tweets UP - then when you want to read a tweet history, you only have to scroll down as you read down. Since twitter is much like a big IRC channel, I think a lot more people would be comfortable with this top->bottom approach of reading, and since it looks like no other twitter client does this right now, if Snitter started it, I think you'd get a huge increase in users for this reason alone.

when looking at the "default" tweet timeline of activity, it would be great if there was a little indicator (icon?) indicating the relationship... ie are they following me as well or am I just following them?