Version 0.5 now available!

Now that I have friendship/following dialogs out of the way, I feel like I can finally focus on more interesting features.  I have a pile of ideas I’ve been sitting on, but I felt like I had to get past this milestone first.

Here’s the list of all the new features:

• You can now follow/unfollow any user from within Buzzbird – you are no longer sent to Twitter’s web page to do it. A new per-user dialog was added to facilitate this.
• (OSX only) You can now assign Buzzbird to a specific Space, or to all Spaces (this one is for you, Troy).
• Threaded replies now work.
• Buzzbird can now put the number of unread messages, unread mentions, or unread DMs in the titlebar.
• You can now choose to put your friends’ “real names” in bold (instead of their handles) when rendering.
• Clicking a hashtag can bring you to either search.twitter.com or hashtags.org (used to be only hashtags.org, now it’s configurable)
• Fixed some bugs which would cause Tweets to not be rendered if URLs within the tweets contained special characters.
• Failure to post a tweet because of network issues will no longer cause the text of your tweet to be erased.
• Upgraded xulrunner to 1.9.1.4 (which gives Buzzbird parity w/ Firefox 3.5.4).

Coming up next, I plan on adding support for Lists and official Retweets, and maybe a few other goodies.  As with every other release I’ve done, I intend to have a lot less time between releases for the next go-round, but despite my best intentions, that never seems to happen.  Let’s hope this time it actually happens!

Make sure you visit the site to get the latest version:  http://getbuzzbird.com

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