Bitter is the first Twitter app for boxee. Stefan Hakans built a basic Twitter app that lets you follow the updates of specific users.

the idea of integrating Twitter into boxee and in general to TV viewing experience holds a lot of potential, so i am sure we will see many more apps that will try to make a living-room Twitter experience.

Stefan Hakans in his own words:

I’m Stefan,38. Working as tech lead developing financial systems for an investment bank.

Have been a fan and user of Boxee for a long time but have no previous experience of Python or the inner workings of Boxee apps. Until yesterday (June 14th) that is. I have registered the domain rockboxee.com and am looking to setup an app repository in the not too distant future.

Quote about the app and the experience:

I have been thinking for some time that a twitter client for Boxee would be cool and I always thought someone would beat me to it.

When I yesterday evening could find any info on one and the dev challenge deadline was drawing near I decided to spend a few hour to hack something together. I found the example apps and their descriptions very helpful.

The API isn’t huge and fairly easy to grasp in this short amount of time. I based it on the vimeo example app and got a very simple application just capable of showing the twenty last tweet from a user or the public timeline.

I hope to find time in the near future to expand this app to do things like sending tweets, view your friend timeline, etc. Basically whatever you can do on the regular twitter site.