TwitBox’s 1 perfect feature: The URL snagger

Tools March 1st, 2008

What single feature sets TwitBox apart from all the pretty Twitter Air clients? The URL snagger bin. It sits to the left of the running tweets and collects all the URLs posted sorted by user name … while you go watch a movie for 2 hours, take a bath, play with the kids, or write that report. Come back to TwitBox and quickly click through the list of snagged URLs. No more hunting. And more importantly, no lost, missed or overlooked resource links. They are all in one convenient location ready when you are. Give you eyes a break and save time.

Sure twhirl and snitter look prettier. Want looks or want productivity and valuable resources shared by your PLN? You decide.

Feature List:

Support for Friends Timeline, Direct Messages and Replies Timeline

Support for multiple Twitter Accounts

Support for deleting your specific tweet messages

Launch selected posters home page, Twitter page and any embedded URL in their posted message

Supports capturing all embedded URLs to a separate URL list area and the ability to launch those URLs

Experimental support for #hashtag conversation markers – plus the option to strip the ‘#’ markers from words

Options to customize Taskbar and Sound notifications for both general posted messages and those to you directly

Options to customize background and font for displaying posted messages based on user supplied keywords (Hot Flagging)

Options to use expandable short hand prefixes for writing tweets – i.e.: %b would expand to [BlogPost]

Ability to Add or Remove Friends from within TwitBox rather than having to go to the Twitter page.

Double clicking on a selected message will automagically have their name inserted in the text entry area with the ‘@’ added

Experimental proxy support – still waiting on reports that it works as is.

2 Comments to “TwitBox’s 1 perfect feature: The URL snagger”

mbogle | March 1st, 2008 at 3:45 am

That’s a really nice looking app. I’m tempted to install it just to have a look, but I’ve already go too many messenger apps running on my machine, so I suspect it would be short lived unless I found it REALLY useful.

Always interesting to see what innovation is going on around the periphery of the Twitterverse!

Cheers,

Mike
Pat | March 1st, 2008 at 4:38 am

I have got to try this out. I like the idea of a url snagger!