Mad Props!

Last night saw yet another update to Halfwit, with a few little extra features. Nothing major, but I thought I might as well document them here.

For starters, I’m displaying retweets slightly differently. I’m grabbing the profile picture of the person who was retweeted, and overlaying it on top of the profile picture of the “retweeter”. Here’s a screenshot:

So you can see funkatron’s avatar hanging off the bottom of lazycoder’s. It’s a bit of a visual clue that this is a retweet, and lets me take the next logical step: I want to remove the “RT @funkatron:” from the front of the tweet, and instead move it down into the smaller, gray text below the body. Here’s a mock-up:

The idea is that the link in the gray text (“retweeting @funkatron” in this case) would take you to funkatron’s profile. It’ll make native retweets feel a bit more seamless without sacrificing the functionality, and it’ll also mean that a very long tweet that was retweeted won’t get truncated (because I have access to the original text).

The other thing you might have noticed from that screenshot is that the “source” of the tweet (“API” in this example) is a link. You can click on that link to take you to the home page for the Twitter client that was used to post that update.

I still have a few feature requests on UserVoice, and a few ideas of my own. Please give Halfwit a try and let me know what you’d like to see!