11 days and 50 versions later tweetbe.at is coming along great, thanks to everyone who has tried it and especially thanks to those who have given me feedback - @cleverclogs and @spinchange for the most part.
You can see from the screenshot I’ve added new styles support, also noise fighting tools including a ‘mute words/phrases list’ and ‘1 click block’.
Tweetbe.at started as a way to emulate IRC channels over Twitter, but now my goal has shifted somewhat, now I want to make Twitter into a full fledged instant chat client, both 1 on 1 and many to many. That includes everything from join/part and presence notifications to emoticons and theming.
The major barriers are basically Twitter’s strict limitations, and some data structures missing from Twitter’s web implementation. I’m hoping that other Twitter developers will start coming up with a portable (and extensible) ‘groups’ format, since they all seem to be independently developing the same feature more or less.
