Run the TalkingPuffin Web app , which has great features for analyzing users.

TalkingPuffin is a powerful, open source, desktop Twitter client from Dave Briccetti ( @dcbriccetti ) and others. It’s written in Scala and runs on the Java platform.

News

Jan 7, 2013

Mar 18, 2011

Integration with TalkingPuffin Web (Shift-A to analyze user)

Many improvements to TalkingPuffin web Version 1.1.0

Mar 14, 2011

Dave Briccetti shows TalkingPuffin Web, including source code, at Bay Area Scala Enthusiasts. Recording

Mar 6, 2011

Version 1.0

Mar 5, 2011

Experimental Web app gets new features, including word frequency analysis

Mar 1, 2011

Experimental Web app available

Feb 21, 2011

Tabbed pane UI from version 0.77 restored

Browse links in tweets in the people pane Version 1.0 Release Candidate 1

Feb 20, 2011

Fixed error preventing startup on first use

Misc. fixes and changes. See commit history for details. Version 0.80e (Development version)

Feb 16, 2011

Version 0.80d (Development version) New features: Show user timelines of any user(s) selected in the status or people panes Features working again: Show all unseen tweets (up to ≈800)

Rate limit status display

Save credentials for multiple users

Feb 12, 2011

Version 0.80c (Development version) Features working again: All friends and followers are fetched

Twitter authorization is retained between runs

Feb 7, 2011

Version 0.80b (Development version) The conversion to the new Twitter API layer is mostly finished. Some missing pieces: Lists

Direct Messages

Twitter authorization is not retained between runs

Feb 6, 2011

Dave Briccetti begins replacing the internal Twitter API layer with Twitter4J, to get OAuth support and other recent features.

Jan 11, 2010

Dec 26, 2009

Status messages for (un)follow, (un)block, spam

Fix problems displaying the big version of user pictures

Send and display multiline tweets Version 0.79b (Development version)

Dec 11

Show the screen name of the user who is retweeting Version 0.79a (Development version)

Nov 19

Dave Briccetti presents the client at Twitter Meetup

Nov 16

Find users on Twitter

Experimental new arrangement of multiple views (do you like it better?)

Enlarged and separate detail panel

Tweets appear only in one view

Show the tweet streams of lists

Receive data from Twitter compressed, for better performance and reduced network use Version 0.78 (Development version)

Nov 9

Support for users with large numbers of following/followers

New retweet views Version 0.77

Nov 7

Nov 5

Tags/Lists Improved display and selection of tags Allowing providing a description when creating a new tag, to be used with the new descriptions on Twitter lists Display the lists the user (or any person) owns or is on

People Pane Details panel on the people pane Many more menu items on the people pane

Noise Allow muting “commented retweets,” such as Me too! RT @noisy I like noise!

Version 0.76

Nov 1

Version 0.75, with improved filtering features ( Screencast

Oct 29

Version 0.74

Oct 21

Blog post about Lists support

Oct 20

Version 0.73

Oct 18

Version 0.72, with some support for Twitter Lists

Oct 15

Version 0.71

Oct 3

Dave Briccetti presents the client at Silicon Valley Code Camp

Oct 2

Version 0.70

Sep 5

New video of Dave Briccetti adding a “suppress non-followers” feature

Aug 26



Dave Briccetti presents the client at Version 0.69Dave Briccetti presents the client at Twitter Meetup

July 18

Version 0.68

July 17

Version 0.67

June 12

Version 0.66

May 21

Mentioned on The Java Posse podcast

May 20

Dave Briccetti presents the Scala code at the eBig Java Sig

May 19

Version 0.65

May 9

Discussion group created for developers and users

May 4

Version 0.64

Apr 23

Simple Twitter Client now called TalkingPuffin ( blog post

Apr 21

Dave Briccetti presents briefly at Silicon Valley Web Jug

Apr 10

Part of TalkingPuffin deployed on Google App Engine ( blog post

Mar 24

Version 0.51

Mar 10



Version 0.4 Dave Briccetti presents the client at Bay Area Scala Enthusiasts at Twitter HeadquartersVersion 0.4

Mar 3

Dave Briccetti presents the client —in very early form—at the Java Posse Roundup

Two friendly Norwegians join team at the Java Posse Roundup ( blog post

Feb 22

Feb 17, 2009