The customizable Twitter client.
Kiwi is a full-featured, themeable Twitter client for Mac OS X. Kiwi supports multiple accounts, groups, saved searches, and rules/filters. Kiwi gives users the power to change the theme to match their desktop.
Kiwi comes with nine built-in themes, many more are available online.
Customizable
Kiwi likes to spend a lot of time on your desktop,
so we made sure he would fit in. Choose a theme or build
your own — it’s easy.
Flexible
Kiwi can show one minimalist timeline for
the social media Zen master,
or display lots of accounts for the
social networking butterfly.
Powerful
Kiwi can manage your tweets
with rules and regular expressions,
plus he can combine Twitter accounts
to create personalized timelines.
Form follows function, on foot.
Themes
Kiwi is themeable: it comes with nine themes and you can
download more. Themes aren’t just skin deep either;
they can change not just the look of Kiwi, but also what
information is shown and how Kiwi behaves.
Rules
Define rules to hide content that you’d like to skip
and highlight the content you don’t want to miss. Use
simple searching and powerful regular expressions
to see exactly the content you want.
Accounts
Kiwi works great with one account and
smoothly navigates through many. Kiwi comes with a mini
account window that lets you keep tabs on everything
all at once.
Inline Images
See Twitpic image thumbnails right in your timeline. They
expand as hove your mouse, or just click
for a preview.
Saved Searches
Twitter isn’t just about your friends anymore. With
saved searches you can find out the latest news about
the trending topics that are important to you.
Real Retweets
Full support for sending and receiving Twitter’s new retweets. See both the original author and the your friend that sent
it.
Account Groups
Get organized, create mashups, and construct
your own groups of users. Kiwi can merge many accounts
into one timeline, or keep them separate, you decide.
Theme API
Want to create your own theme? It’s easy.
Themes are built using simple HTML and CSS
that’s easy to read. And since Kiwi uses
WebKit, you can use all of the latest
technologies like CSS 3 and transition animations.
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March 23rd, 2010 at 12:51 am
Is there any way to see profiles or follow/unfollow directly from inside Kiwi?
I saw that auto-scrolling is part of the non-demo version, which isn’t immediately obvious from playing with the demo….
March 23rd, 2010 at 1:05 am
I am very disappointed after buying the license that Kiwi is Snow Leopard only.
Ideally such restrictions should be put up in bold on the top of the page. Instead its hidden somewhere in the long details.
Extremely disappointing.
March 23rd, 2010 at 7:35 am
@Shishir, Zot’s promo’s OS requirement details are usually located near the bottom of the description, the responsibility for reading all the applicable information BEFORE buying rests with the buyer (i.e. you, me, et al) it is you who failed to find Kiwi’s compatibility requirements, not Zot, I refer you to Zot’s FAQs page, question 4:
Q4: If I don’t like the item I ordered, can I return it?
A: Because the products can be tried before using, there are no returns. Please click on the TRY button to demo the product. We realize that some people purchase the product without trying it first only later to find out that it wasn’t what they had thought it was. Please do not buy the product unless you really want it. We pay the developers the day after the offer ends and complete our financial transactions with them at that time.
Emphasis, mine.
DISCLAIMER: I am not related in any way, shape, or form to MacZot and/or its owner(s).
March 23rd, 2010 at 11:54 am
Hi El Cid,
I am not blaming anyone. Surely its my mistake. But IMHO it would be more responsible for developers / sellers to emphasize the limitations.
March 23rd, 2010 at 7:23 pm
I bought it, because I seem to collect Twitter apps. I’ve been mostly using Socialite (formerly EventBox), and I like being able to create smart folders. Now that Twitter has lists, I can use those, too, in Socialite. I don’t see that I can do that with KiWi, but I hope for that in the future. I definitely like its small footprint, something Socialite could learn a thing or two about, and I also like the themes that are so easily applied. But, what I really like is having that Kiwi in my dock. He/she is so cute! It’s worth $4.95 just for the icon.
March 23rd, 2010 at 8:06 pm
Can’t download a trial… Anyone else have a problem with YourHead’s site?
March 23rd, 2010 at 8:35 pm
It’s too bad there isn’t a version of this for Leopard – I would have loved to have tried it, and most likely, would have bought it. Nice website, anyway.
March 29th, 2010 at 12:00 pm
I’m a bit disappointed I missed out on this one. I bought it a few days before for the $10, and it’s an excellent piece of software for Twitter, probably the best on the Mac right now. Uncluttered, powerful and very simple. Just how a piece of Mac software should be!
April 1st, 2010 at 7:50 pm
Better means more features.
good post,I think so!