Well I had hoped to, by now, then end of Q1 2010, released the first version of TwitterBrite. But as you can see (or rather can’t see) you still can’t buy it yet :(

Why is this, mostly because I’m rubbish at judging how long it takes to write code, and with Twitterbrite, unlike my under-grad days, I can’t stay up for 48hrs in a go and finish it all off.

So what have I been doing?

Well it’s mostly done, I’ve still got some of the options (auto follow, auto un-follow and the suggest new people to follow to sort out, but as a twitter client it works, you can see your time line, the general public time line, direct messages and replies to you, you can re-tweet messages, post RSS feeds, follow and unfollow people directly from the time line.

So whats left to do?

Well as I said above some of the options I want are currently missing, also missing is any access to lists :( I had hoped to include them but as the scheduled has slipped so I decided to fix what didn’t work first before adding new stuff. As well as this some of the error messages when twitter returns problems, are not exactly descriptive but there are no show stopping bugs (at least I haven’t found any in testing it)

All of this is to say it still isn’t ready, however it’s ready enough for you to test it out if you feel brave enough, Twitterbrite TR1 (Temporary release 1) can be downloaded, free of charge here.

I warn you it isn’t production ready (not by a long way) but feel free to test it out and let us know via our helpdesk, what you think of it.