TweetCraft – The Good and the Ugly

TweetCraft is a Twitter client for World of Warcraft. You can take a screenshot and Twitpic it, and incoming tweets show your contacts' avatar images. In other words, it has more functionality than half of the Twitter clients for the Linux desktop.

In this article, we sing both the high and low notes for TweetCraft.

Some WoW players aren't impressed. Sending a tweet requires a UI reload, which, even in the best of cases, can mean a lot of lag, regardless of whether you're in epic combat, or just milling about the countryside. The UI reload also means that, if other plugins don't re-initialize perfectly, you can wind up spending 45 minutes rearranging Bartender4's buttons and re-entering Decursive's settings, just to get around hitting Alt-Tab.

If a UI reload is only an inconvenience for you, you can enter a tweet without sending it immediately. This delays the UI reload until you need the tweet sent.

This is definitely a “your mileage may vary” scenario. If you don't use plugins for the purpose of squeezing more efficiency out of your gameplay, or if you have a fast computer and your plugins always handle UI reloads perfectly, TweetCraft is a good solution for people who love both Twitter and World of Warcraft. If you've already rearranged your Bartender4 buttons so many times due to settings losses that any mention of a UI reload causes anxiety, you might give it a pass.

If all of this sounds reasonable and good, then you'll be happy to know there are other features. You can opt to have TweetCraft auto-tweet when you enter an instance, get an achievement, or when you log in. The authors encourage other plugin creators to use TweetCraft programmatically, and they provide ways for other plugins to access TweetCraft's functions.

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