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McTwit October 15, 2009 McTwit is a free, open source client for Twitter -- the second-most popular networking site after Facebook. McTwit works on almost any version of Windows, including 64-bit versions and the new Windows 7. The text-based nature of Twitter and its open programming interface has enabled McTwit to become a full-featured client that is keyboard and screen reader-friendly. An executable installer is available at http://EmpowermentZone.com/mtsetup.exe A zip archive that may be extracted onto portable media is available at http://EmpowermentZone.com/mtsetup.zip McTwit now has a greatly expanded Utilities menu. It offers handy ways of getting useful information, which is obtained mostly from third-party web services rather than from twitter.com, itself. Most are still directly Twitter-related, though a few are general-purpose conveniences. The new utilities are as follows: Common URLs - Show a list of the 100 most commonly referenced URLs on Twitter at the time. These typically point to news stories that people have been retweeting. Driving Directions - Input a starting and ending location, and get a list of steps to get there by car (a blind person might share this with a friend or cab driver). The location may be specified as a street address in any country. Feed Find - Get a list of RSS and ATOM feeds made available by a web site, e.g., by pointing to a URL in a tweet. A hotkey then lets you open a feed at the cursor position. Hash Tag Lookup - Get definitions of hash tags (a word preceded by the # symbol). People on Twitter use these to annotate messages for easier categorizing and searching. Language Translation - Translate a tweet in another language, or any text you specify, between about 100 different languages. You can quickly understand what a foreign phrase means or how to write it. Members of Congress - Get a list of House and Senate members for a zip code, with various data about them including committee assignments and contact information, including Twitter screen name if available. Neighborhood Search - Search for places near a location, e.g., restaurants with a particular cuisine near an address you are visiting (anywhere in the world). Original URL - Get the original version of a URL that was shortened for sharing in a tweet. People Search - Search for people on Twitter, e.g., an old classmate to reconnect with. Short URL - Get a shortened version of a URL so you can share it in a tweet and have more text to type within the 140 character limit. Trend Topics - Get a list of topics that are currently popular on Twitter. User Stats - Get a variety of statistics about a user, e.g., average tweets per day and hash tags used, in order to help you decide whether to follow him or her on Twitter. Weather Check - Get a summary of current and forecasted conditions for anylocation.
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