OutTwit Outlook + Twitter = OutTwit

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If you are an Outlook user, you probably have it open all the time. Now you can update your Twitter status and follow your friends without having to open any other applications. OutTwit seamlessly integrates Twitter into Outlook.

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Features

• Update your Twitter status directly from Outlook.
• Receive your friend updates as Outlook messages.
• Archive, manage and search your tweets the
  same way you manage your email (details).
• Assign custom folder and categories to new messages.
• Automatically sort new tweets into per-sender folders.
• Shorten URLs with tinyurl.
• See graphs of your Twitter usage statistics.
• Tweets sent to you (@replies and direct) are marked with high importance, so you can see them at a glance.
• What features would you like to see?

Change History

• Added a workaround for Twitter rate-limit error when verifying user name and password.

• Fixed a stats graph error.

• Added an option to control the width of the toolbar message entry field.
• Added an option to preview tinyurl links.
• Add hyperlinks for @users even when it's not at the very beginning of a tweet.
• Handle Twitter outages better.

• Bug fixing release. Thanks to @limalicas and @CortneySellers for their help with troubleshooting an issue.

• Bug fixing release. Thanks to @nick_harris for his help with troubleshooting an issue.

• An option to play a sound for new tweets.

• Fetch direct messages (subject is prefixed with "d:").

• Outlook Reply and ReplyAll commands work on tweets now as direct messages and @replies.

• Tweets are created as Post items rather than regular messages.
• @replies addressed to you are marked with high importance.
• Optional warning if the message you are composing is over 140 characters.
• More statistics graphs.

Give us your feedback

Why did we build OutTwit? Because Twitter is fun and we build Outlook products for a living. So we thought why not throw them together and see what happens. What do you think? OutTwit is still a very young product. We would love to hear your questions, comments, suggestions, praises, rants... We'd like to hear from you!

OutTwit System Requirements

• Windows XP or Vista with the latest Service Pack.
• Outlook 2003 SP3, 2007 SP1.
• OutTwit does NOT work with Outlook Express.