Developer Mike Ward has announced that his lightweight Windows 7+ Twitter client Tweetz Desktop is now open source.
The program is essentially a desktop gadget, a simple tool with various timeline views, optional audio alerts for updates, a search tool and a compose window where you can drag and drop images and shorten links.
If you’re interested in the WPF code then it’s now available on GitHub.
If you’re just looking for a simple Twitter client then Tweetz Desktop can still be downloaded from the developer’s site, at least for the moment.
On balance this seems like good news to us. You can install the program without any adware hassles, and while it’s basic right now, there’s a chance others will add more features in future.
Ward is also the developer behind Desk Drive, a neat tool which adds an icon to your system tray whenever you insert a removable drive (just click it to open Explorer at the right location).
He says that Desk Drive will remain closed source because "it still brings in some mad money through the installer", but this "will eventually taper off and when it does it will also be open sourced".