ok, so it took quite a bit of reading and learning. and now the 0.1.1-6 is on it's way through the auto-builder.

At long last witter has auto-refresh.

Main timeline, mentions, dm's and public timeline all support auto-refresh, and can be independently set to different intervals.

This update also includes some layout changes, the addition of character counter. some other minor fixes.

There are some problems I've not figured out yet. specifically if you cancel a dialog by clicking outside it, rather than the cancel button, then when you try to come back to the dialog again, it doesn't come up properly. This effects the credentials and the new properties dialogs.
If anyone knows why this happens..I'd love to hear from you.

updates images of the new version can be found at my blog: http://danielwould.wordpress.com/witter/

At the rate the auto-builder is going, it may be tomorrow morning before 0.1.1-6 is actually availiable in extras-devel