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In the month or so since Twitter started rolling out its Twitter Lists feature, a number of web and Adobe AIR based clients have added support for it.
However, we haven’t seen any native Twitter apps support Lists. Today Realmac Software released Socialite Beta 3 for Mac OS X, including, among other enhancements — basic list support. Realmac acquired Socialite (then named EventBox) back in October and expects to release the first version of the program by the end of the month.
Socialite is a multi-purpose social media client, and like Seesmic Desktop, TweetDeck and Brizzly, it lets you track and update your Facebook and Twitter accounts. But Socialite goes a little further — adding support for Google Reader, Flickr, Digg and even RSS feeds.
The nice thing about Socialite is that it is a native Mac OS X app, which means it runs faster and has better performance and stability than some of the other multi-service clients. In Socialite 1.0, Beta 3, Realmac has fixed some bugs, changed how some of the authorization system works and added some new features.
The biggest new feature is support for reading Twitter Lists. Right now you only have the ability to watch lists that you’ve created because the Twitter API doesn’t let developers access all subscribed lists. If that changes in the future, Realmac will update List support accordingly. For version 1.0, Socialite won’t have the ability to add or edit your own lists, but that’s something the team is working on for future releases. Finally, although not in Beta 3, Retweet support (as Twitter officially supports it) is due in the final release of Socialite 1.0.
You can try out Socialite for free right now if you have Mac OS X 10.5 or Mac OS X 10.6. The program has come along way in just the last six or seven weeks and we look forward to seeing what else the app brings.
What do you think about the state of list and retweet support in different Twitter clients? Let us know!
ALSO: Be sure to check out Mashable’s Lists on Twitter!
Reviews: Brizzly, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Google Reader, Seesmic Desktop, TweetDeck, Twitter
Tags: realmac, Socialite, twitter, Twitter Lists
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Brizzly is a web-based Twitter and Facebook client that has been gaining some momentum and buzz over the past couple months.
It has some slick features like being able to view photos and videos in-line in your Twitter stream, threaded DMs, and built-in photo uploading. It also recently added support for Twitter Lists. However, it’s remained in invite-only mode. That changes today though, as Brizzly is flipping the switch and allowing anyone to sign up for an account.
The company tells us that they’ll “still be in beta for a bit, which just means we’ll be continuing to experiment as usual.” One of those experiments, which launches today, is on-the-fly translation of tweets, which in theory lets you follow people who tweet in different languages and have them translated into your language of choice in your stream.
Brizzly is trying to compete in a very crowded space, but have an exceptionally strong team including Jason Shellen, who worked at Blogger with Evan Williams, and Chris Wetherell, who’s credited with having created Google Reader. Today, the company also announced they’ve added another ex-Googler to the mix, Ben Darnell, who was most recently working for Facebook via the social network’s acquisition of FriendFeed.
If you’re not yet familiar with the product, this video gives a brief overview:
Let us know what you think of Brizzly in the comments.
Reviews: Brizzly, Facebook, Google Reader, Twitter, blogger
Tags: brizzly, facebook, social media, twitter
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As you can probably tell from our extensive coverage this week, we’re extremely excited about the possibilities of Twitter Lists: from how news organizations are leveraging the feature, to a full Twitter Lists FAQ to the potential for real-time journalism and the utility of lists after the tragic Fort Hood shootings.
As such, we’ve started work on our own project to categorize Twitter into what we hope will be useful lists. These are nowhere near finished, of course: just a starting point. We’ll be adding more and more names over the coming weeks. If you see people you’d like to include (and there are many, many more to add – sorry if we missed you!), just send a Tweet to @mashable with your suggestions.
Twitter Lists from Mashable
You can explore all our evolving lists here >>
Media Thinkers: media thinkers and commentators.
Social Media Linkers: social media experts, thinkers and linkers.
Mashable Team: the Mashable team, social media musings and personal Tweets.
News Orgs: news organizations on Twitter, breaking news.
Marketing Experts: marketers who Tweet, digital marketing insights and links.
Top Designers who Tweet: web designers share their insights and musings.
Music: popular musicians on Twitter.
Web People: the web scene, a growing list of all things webby.
Top Brands on Twitter: brand names on Twitter, official company accounts.
Tech: interesting voices in tech.
Foodies to Follow: foodies who Tweet, top chefs share knowledge.
Celebrity: celebrities who Tweet.
Journalists and Journalism Tweets: journalists talk media, newspapers, tv and the growth of online journalism.
The Twitterati: early Twitter stars who share interesting links.
Healthcare on Twitter: healthcare experts and organizations on Twitter.
Reviews: Mashable, Twitter
Tags: trending, twitter, Twitter Lists
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This is potentially minor as none of us at Team Mashable have spotted any, but Twitter reports looking into the source of elevated errors on the site currently.
There appear to be more folks retweeting the status post than actually reporting errors themselves as well, so if you’ve run into anything suspicious you should let us know what you’re seeing in the comments.
Are you seeing any errors either on the main Twitter site or via clients? We’re wondering if this is at all related to the missing mentions issue from yesterday, but it’s hard to speculate too deeply at this point. We’ll let you know if we hear any updates on these.
[UPDATE]: Luckily, that was quick — Twitter reports the issue is now fixed, although they don’t say what the cause of the errors were.
Reviews: Twitter
Tags: bugs, errors, twitter
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