I am happy to announce the launch of twitree.com. It’s a twitter application which allows a twitterer to view his followers in a tree-like navigation, which can be expanded.
twitree makes extensive use of the YUI library. The following components were used :
- grids css – for the layout
- yahoo dom event – for DOM and event handling
- connection manager – for AJAX requests like getting the list of followers for a user
- container family – to display modal dialogs like prompting for a twitter username, displaying the loading panel
- JSON utility – to parse the JSON data twitree receives from the twitter servers
- cookie utility – to fetch username information from a cookie so that the user doesn’t have to input his username every time
- and finally the treeview control which provides a nice tree and dynamically loads the data upon clicking on a node
The application is very much in an initial phase and there are some limitations, like only 100 followers are being returned, rate limiting, etc…
Stay tuned for further information
Latest update :
twitterers can now
- update their status via twitree
- follow a user by right clicking on the user and choose “Follow” from the contextual menu
- send a direct message to a fellow twitterer by right clicking on the user and choose “Send message” from the contextual menu
FAQ has also been added