Scissors

Scissors is a minimal Twitter client for Java enabled mobile phones.

Goals

The goals of the project are to provide a program characterized by:

• quick and efficient operation,
• low network traffic (lower connection cost),
• high usablity.

It is not the goal of the project to provide all the features of Twitter through the cell phone.

Progress

The current version of the program is 1.0.1. It is an actual release and was tested to the limits (of one man with a cellphone and only so much money).

Constraints

The provided client is required to run on Java enabled mobile phones with the following configuration:

• CLDC 1.1,
• MIDP 2.0.

Functional Requirements

The user of the program,

• can update their Twitter status through the mobile phone,
• can list the recent updates of their friends (people they follow) on demand,
• does not have to enter their credentials each time the software starts.

Licensing

The program is licensed under GPL.