Quitter - A Quiet Little Twitter Client

I love Twitter, but I didn't love the fact that so many of the desktop clients for Twitter were large downloads with visually-rich Adobe Air interfaces or big flashy websites. I wanted a quiet little Twitter client.

So I wrote Quitter.

Quitter is a Twitter client that doesn't announce itself to the entire cube farm; it runs in a command window (or "DOS window"). There's no installer and no entries in the Start Menu; it will run from a thumbdrive. It's a single small EXE file (about 105k) and it stores its settings in a small XML file.

With Quitter, you can...

• Read, post, reply and retweet.
• Organize the people you follow into groups and read tweets by group.
• Filter (or highlight) tweets from specific users or that contain certain #hashtags.
• Use URL shorteners like TinyUrl.com for tweeting URLs.
• Easily open tweeted links from other users in your default browser (no copy/paste needed)
• Send and receive direct messages
• Follow or unfollow other users

Quitter runs on Windows 2000/XP/Vista and requires Version 2.0 of the Microsoft .NET Framework or higher (version 2.0 was released in 2006; most Windows machines should have version 2.0 or higher).

Quitter is free (as in beer) and open-source and will always be both.

What People Are Saying About Quitter

• "Deeply badass" - Cortex, on the Metafilter Podcast
• "Quitter is definitely a non-obtrusive and useful client for everyone, go ahead and give it a try." - techie-buzz.com
• "I think Quitter is THE Twitter client I've been looking for. It's really working great. Thanks for making such a great program." - Michael B.
• "If you love simplicity...you will love this." - SheriffMikewhite.com
• "Quitter is a dead simple portable twitter client" - ToThePC.com

Acknowledgments

Quitter would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of other people whose work served as the foundation for my own.

• Patrick "Ricky" Smith - Patrick's Twitterizer library was the code that drove the earliest version of Quitter. I have since ported his code from C# to VB.Net, but he did the heavy lifting of figuring out the Twitter API.
• Eran Sandler - Eran wrote an OAuth class and graciously provided it to the community.
• Shannon Whitley - Shannon extended Eran's work into an OAuth class for Twitter, also making his work available to other developers. I ported Shannon's C# code to VB.NET for Quitter.
• Bojan Rajkovic - The developer of Twarp was extraordinarily helpful to me as I was trying to understand the Twitter API.