twhirl uses system fonts installed on your computer to display tweets. While this allows you to choose your preferred font face (also including non-standard characters), Flash-based rendering of system fonts on OSX can lead to ugly results, especially for kerning.

To get better results, please select another font face in configuration. Users reported that Verdana at 12pt works good.

It’s a network status indicator. If it is green, everything is fine, twhirl had no problems to access the twitter servers. If it turns yellow or even red, some of the last requests have failed. You can move your mouse over the indicator to see a tooltip that will show you the network “health” as a percentage (100% is best).

The accounts manager will automatically open when you start twhirl and there are no accounts defined, or when none of the added accounts is configured to automatically connect on startup. If there is at least one account configured to auto-connect, it will be hidden.

There are multiple ways to open the account manager window:

• Click on the top left twhirl logo and name in any connected twhirl window.
• Use keyboard shortcut “m”
• Open the context menu for twhirl’s dock / sys tray icon and select command “Accounts manager”

twhirl marks tweets, replies and direct messages in your timeline as new or unread when it receives them, by adding a small dot in the top right corner. Simply click somewhere inside the tweet to mark it as seen. Pressing the dash or minus key “-” or clicking the small button below the timeline will mark all tweets as seen.

Unfortunately, the twitter servers do not support marking tweets as seen, so if twhirl fetches old tweets, replies or DMs on startup, it will mark them as new again, even if you marked them as seen in a previous session.

Open the context menu for twhirl’s dock icon (on OSX) / sys tray icon (on Windows) and select the “Reset windows” command. It will reduce all twhirl windows to the default size and cascade them from the top right corner of your primary screen.