TwInbox Twitter Add-in for Microsoft Outlook

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• FAQ
• Quick Start

If you are a Microsoft ® Outlook ® user, you probably have it open all the time. Now you can have a fully-featured, powerful Twitter client at your fingertips without having to open any other applications. TwInbox seamlessly integrates Twitter into Outlook. It is a perfect Twitter client for any Outlook user, from a Twitter newbie to a business professional.

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Features

• Update your Twitter status directly from Outlook.
• Receive your friend updates in Outlook.
• Archive, manage, group and search your tweets the
  same way you manage your email (details).
• Search, track keywords. TwInbox will automatically download ALL tweets matching the keywords you specify, even if you are not following the tweet sender. This feature is perfect for keeping up to date with the Twitter buzz on your name, brand, interests, etc.
• Group tweets by sender, topic, etc using the Search feature.
• Upload and post picture files and Outlook email attachments.
• See new tweets at a glance (details).
• Assign custom folder and categories to new messages.
• Use Outlook's "Reply" and "ReplyAll" commands to send twitter direct messages and @replies.
• 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

• Changed the way message length is counted to match new Twitter behavior.
• Do not post message text to picture upload services. Only post it to Twitter. This way you can use picture upload with private messages.
• Fixed a tweet fetch error.
• Improved performance.

• New name and logo. TwInbox is the new OutTwit!
• Improved usability. Added toolbar buttons for New, d, @, RT.
• Improved usability. Configurable options for which elements to display on the toolbar.
• Improved TwitPic picture preview support.
• Added Twitgoo picture preview support.
• Mark sent messages (in the Sent folder) as read.
• Display extended sender info (Bio, Web address, Follower counts, etc) right in the tweet.
• Added an option to show full sender name in the From column.
• More details about new features.

• Support for uploading/posting pictures (image files and email attachments). Learn more.
• TwitPic picture preview support for received tweets.

• Improved support for authenticating proxy servers.
• Improved tinyurl support.

• New: Added Next/Previous buttons to rotate preview tweets on the toolbar. Reminder - the toolbar tweet preview allows you to @reply, DM, open links simply by clicking on it.
• Improved "in reply to" handling.
• Use "RT" instead of "Retweeting" for retweet prefix.

• New: Dispaly sender profile picture on the toolbar new tweet preview.

• Fixed: Use new URL for the lock image (protected update indicator). Thanks BarryD!

• New: Hyperlink #tags in messages to search.twitter.com. Thanks to JohnG for the suggestion.
• New: Experimatal support for twitter-compatible services. (laconi.ca, identi.ca).

• Workaround for Twitter search displaying old items issue.

• New: Configurable keyboard shortcut for posting new tweets.
• New: Add "in reply to..." to the end of reply messages.
• New: Options to separately control fetching friend timeline, @replies, direct messages.
• New: An option to save tweets you send.
• New: Retweet command now works on Tasks and Appointments.
• New: Improved configuration UI.
• New: An option to control how many tweets are fetched in a single request.

• New: An option display preview of new tweets directly on the TwInbox toolbar.
• New: Shift+Click on the Twitter button switches Outlook to your Twitter folder.

• New: keyword search/tracking.
• New: Retweet command.
• Fixed: better logic for remember the previous toolbar position. (Thanks to @ChrisRomp for reporting this issue).

• 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.

Give us your feedback

Why did we build TwInbox? 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? TwInbox is still a very young product. We would love to hear your questions, comments, suggestions, praises, rants... We'd like to hear from you!

TwInbox System Requirements

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