Mibbit is one of the few apps that I am actually impressed in. This is an app that simply makes sense as a web app, and it's excellently executed.

Does it run at a profit yet?

Thanks for the kind words. It's just about break even now, the targeted advertising is starting to work very well. I want to get the advertising 100% before I introduce any paid options.

Given the price that some of the competition charge to host webchat there is plenty of room there I think.

I LOVE the idea! I'm sure you're working on these but if you could eventually add:

- Links to usernames in the left pane, as well as on @

- Let us know when we send a direct message. I sent one, but got no feedback (it went through though)

- A simple "IRC like topic" in when I load it up, it shows how much direct messages I have and other Twitter stats that are easy to fetch.

That's all I can suggest, great feature .. Mibbit is the only irc client I use when away from home :)

I'd be interested in what long time twitter users think of this - it's obviously not the usual twitter UI design, but it works quite well IMHO. (It updates every 5 minutes)

Try at http://www.mibbit.com/chat/

looks good, just like twitter used to be when the gtalk interface still worked ( minus the realtime updating that used to happen )

Mibbit is impressively fast.