While 0.9.18 introduced rotating of torrents, to ensure they would never “starve” by not receiving any posts, newer twister 0.9.19 makes a further distinction: torrents of the people you follow are exempted from this rotation. So instead of periodically pausing and resuming these torrents they will be always ready to receive new posts, thus leading to faster timeline updates and quicker delivery of direct messages.
Of course, there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Following hundreds of people will cause more resources on your machine to be used. This trade-off is discussed here:
In order to reduce the impact of this change, the size of network buffers used by each connection has been reduced. I believe that for most people the impact on memory should be negligible, but we may need smarter strategies for big twister users.
Try it out and let us know how it works for you!
Android APK and win32 builds are also updated here:
mfreitas can you put this Twister account https://twitter.com/TwisterPtoP link on this website, so when people visit here they can click on the twitter bird to follow the Twister account. Just like a lot of websites have that say follow us on twitter.
mfreitas Can you tell me if Twister supports animated gifs as avatars like twitter used to. Some people on twitter have asked me that and I don’t know what to tell them.