Does OutTwit not have avatars?
One of the draws to Twitter is seeing the avatars of those that you follow. Some are real pictures, some are funny, others just express the mood the person happens to be in. One thing I see a lot of in the twitter stream though is that OutTwit doesn’t display the avatars and that’s part of what they miss. To answer the question, yes, OutTwit displays the avatars, and now with the latest release, you even get avatars in the tweet preview:
The avatar of the preview toolbar now displays the avatar for quick glance. But what about while your reading? Yes, looking at the Twitter stream as the posts hit it appears there’s no avatar:
From the above snapshot, yes, it appears that avatars are not there but that is at the folder level. It looks like an icon from posts to a newsgroup or SharePoint site, but if you select the message itself, which is how I read (using my up/down arrow keys on my keyboard or the scroll wheel on my mouse), you can see the avatar:
Does it have a slick GUI and look pretty on the surface? No, it doesn’t. Can you see all the pretty avatars at the top level? No, it doesn’t. Do I care? No. Why? One, I don’t need to load Adobe Air to make anything work (or blame Adobe Air when there are problems). Two, does it actually work and keep the posts organized to make Twitter use efficient? Yes, it does. By that I mean, a lot of the popular clients (like Tweetdeck) have a tendency to error out due to too many API calls. I can honestly say that I have not seen a single error since starting to use OutTwit, and using Tweetdeck and Twhirl caused issues for me. And I can honestly say that I monitor the Twitter API website for resets/too many API calls and OutTwit has figured out how to be efficient, even checking for new tweets every minute or two.
To answer the question, yes, OutTwit does display the avatars.