Editor: Slick and Functional
Canary is a Twitter client that is beautifully designed, fun to use and has everything you'll ever need.
Canary's user interface is slick and straightforward and helps you do what matters most fast and easily. It does more than you would expect it to and the best part: it's free with no ads.
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Beautiful user interface
Slick and easy to use with minimal footprint; less than most AIR or native clients.
Minimal error messages and hassles; Canary handles most issues on the background and connects asynchronously to Twitter so that it doesn't block indeterminably
Multiple timelines
Read your friends tweets, the public your replies, favorites, own tweets and your direct messages separately.
See everything
Canary recognizes (and underlines) URLs, hashtags, ISBNs, ISSNs.
Switch between screen names and usernames
Fully supports Growl notifications.
Indicates protected statuses.
Actions
Add or remove, block or unblock users on the fly.
Favorite and retweet any tweet.
Visit users' home or twitter pages.
Filters
Fully powered: use the rule editor to filter your timelines with precision or instantly with InstaFilters.
Multiple personnae
Login in and out of multiple Twitter accounts in an instant.
The power to Shorten
Choose between Adjix, Bit.ly, Cli.gs, is.gd, Snipurl, TinyURL, tr.im and urlBorg to shorten your URLs. Canary saves and reuses your authentication credentials automatically.
Automatic URL shortening on paste.
TwitPic-enabled
Drag and drop any picture to TwitPic or take your own picture.
iTunes integration
Update your followers with the track currently playing on iTunes.
Secure
Signed application executable so you know nobody's messed with it.
Stores your Twitter credentials in the Keychain securely.
Additionally...
Researcher friendly: Recognizes DOI and HDL identifiers and resolves them to the original articles.
Recognizes and resolves IETF RFC numbers and NBN identifiers.