We almost ready to release themes support in Mixero. It means that we will create a lot of different themes for Mixero soon and give you ability to switch between them in one click. Moreover, It will be possible for anyone to create a theme and publish it.
We know that a lot of Mixero users wanted to have dark theme for Mixero. And we decided to give you ability to use your favorite software with dark theme before we released the whole theme support.
So if you prefer to work with Mixero Black then download this version.
If you’ll not like black theme you will be able switch back anytime just by downloading laеtest release from http://www.mixero.com.
The screenshot of Mixero Black is below to help you to decide:

At last. We are happy to tell you that Mixero is now in open beta. That means nobody needs an invitation code. Everyone can use it. And it’s still free!

Apart from being ivitation free, the new version has many new features. The most significant are Facebook integration and Twitter lists support. It also fixes a lot of bugs since the previous version, so we strongly sugest to upgrade.

Facebook integration

Press “Add Facebook” on the login screen to turn on Facebook account. The authentication data will be asked by Facebook during Mixero login process. The Facebook account in Mixero works and feels pretty much the same as a Twitter account. Some functions, however, are currently not available or not yet activated due to limitations or restrictions of Facebook API.

Twitter lists

At the first login to each of Twitter accounts Mixero will suggest you to synchronize your groups (if you have some) with Twitter lists. If you choose to do so, all your Mixero groups will be exported to Twitter as lists. Mixero will also unconditionally load all the Twitter lists that have no corresponding Mixero groups.

As You may know, Twitter has a limit — no more than 20 lists can exist at the same time. Mixero don’t have such limits. Mixero will continue to support an arbitrary number of groups. They can be synchronized with Twitter lists, within the limits set by Twitter. You may always choose which of them are synchronized with Twitter from the Options/Synchronization panel in Mixero.

In our most immediate plans —  geotagging & new retweets support.

Also, in the near future we will publish the Mixero user manual and launch a customer support site.

We will be always grateful for your support and feedback. Feel free to tell us if something is wrong with Mixero. We are always listening to our users.

It has finally happened! Tonight, Apple review team has approved Mixero, the
most remarkable Twitter client for the iPhone.

It is now live in the App Store and it’s FREE! Now, all the cutting edge features of Mixero
desktop are available on your iPhone. Needless to say that
our approach is a bit different than all other Twitter clients out there,
and is a real breakthrough on a mobile device that has limitations in screen space
and connectivity. The really great thing is that now everything in your account
is synchronized across not only multiple PC and Mac machines, but it spreads
on to your handy mobile device too! And this includes the synced active list, groups,
contexts, channels, filters, it’s just amazing!

Mixero for iPhone is open for public! This means no invitation is required.
Incredible! Once you sign in with Mixero on the iPhone, you will be able to access
this account with Mixero on desktop, even if you don’t have an invitation!

On behalf of the whole team that is working on Mixero, We would like to
thank you for such a warm reception that we always get from you!
This really keeps us going! We will continue improving our products to keep
you happy, but we need your help, your feedback keeps our engineers busy
and makes future generations of Mixero even more awesome!

Direct link to Mixero download page for iTunes.

Mixero for iPhone is submitted into Apple App Store as of last Friday.

We expect it to be approved by Apple in a couple of weeks.

Mixero for iPhone has all the features of common twitter client and goes far beyond:

• Groups, ActiveList, Contexts, Filters, Channels and tweets read status are fully synchronized between your desktop and iPhone!
• Avatars mode helps you to see your friend’s activity on Twitter in a new way.
• “Follow conversation” feature for easy reading of conversations between users.
• Easy and powerful contact management with quick search!
• Ability to filter timelines by keywords.
• To preview twitpic images just tap and hold the link to the image directly in any timeline.
• Reply-to-all button.
• Landscape mode during tweet composing.
• Direct Messages displayed as a chat, never miss any DM and never forget the topic. One click replies!

Here are some screenshots:

Avatars Mode

Contacts Panel

Channels Panel

Image preview

Username Autocompletion

User Profile Page

There are many questions like “why Mixero doesn’t show all the people I’m following on Twitter”.
In this post we’ll try to explain what we think about it currently.

One way to fetch the people you follow to the client is straightforward. The client asks Twitter to give it the list, it does this, in chunks. But there is a catch:

1. Twitter allows us to grab maximum 100 of them per API call, ordered by the order in which they were followed.
2. Twitter allows us to use 100 API calls each hour. These calls also needed to fetch updates, direct messages and replies, view users’ timelines and their info, etc.

Some of us have thousands or even tens of thousands in their following list. Simple math and we would see that if you follow, say, 5000 people, you’ll need 50 API calls at startup only to fetch all of them. That will cause delays on startup and twice as little API calls for other things (less frequent updates, etc) during the first hour.
If you happen to follow 50000, you’ll have to wait for 5 hours just to fetch them using all the API calls available (you won’t be able to read updates from Twitter using API all that time). And, remember, the most recent friends will be fetched only in the end.

There is another way to get the people followed. When they wake up and write something, they’ll appear in the friends’ timeline. And they’ll appear in the Mixero contacts automatically. So Mixero will show the tweeps that updated recently.

When you do something with a tweep in Contacts, like adding to a group or active list, you tell Mixero that this person matters, and needs to be saved for later. So, this is the moment when a person you follow become your contact in terms of Mixero. From this moment, this person will always be in Contacts and will be synchronized across all the instances of Mixero.

Initially, when we thought of the Contacts feature, we wanted it to be populated only by people that:

1. are saved in groups (that means they are matter to you) or
2. brought by the timeline update stream (which means that they were active recently).

So, you say, what Mixero can do for me? To fill your contact list initially, just to give you something to play with and to add people to groups, we fetch limited count of people from your follow list, max. 500 by default (you remember, that would be the first 500 people you followed). We suppose this is a reasonable default.

From this point you may:

1. Add some people by hand using drag’n’drop from timelines, “Add contact” buttons, follow button from inline profiles, etc. Don’t hesitate even if you know that the person has been already followed on Twitter, Mixero will handle this.
2. Wait till somebody not in contacts become active. He will appear in Ungrouped very soon. Add him to a group, so he will stay in contacts forever, till you remove him manually.
3. Increase the maximum of following loaded at startup in application settings. Remember that you’ll have to wait till all the tweeps are loaded. Expect slowdown in app responsiveness and updates frequency that time. The setting will be in effect after application restart. It would be wise to return the settings to lower value after you grouped the people fetched.

As always, we eager to hear your feedback.