Meh I love twitterrific. There's going to be a major update soon that will include a new UI design, Search, different categories like DM's and @'s etc.
twitterfools
· 4 months ago
Great review of a big handful of apps. You've given us much to think about.
lorenzo
· 4 months ago
Very Helpful! Thanks
Rebecca Laffar-Smith
· 4 months ago
Thanks for this! I was browsing the various Twitter Apps yesterday in search of one that had the features I'd like. It came down to alternating between TweetDeck and Digsby (or running both together). Of course, I hadn't seen Seesmic, I'm downloading that now and will check it out today. :-)
I'm really addicted to celebrifeed right now (http://www.celebrifeed.com) it allows you to track and interact with celebrities on twitter
tugra
· 5 months ago
i used many of them.but in my opinion it s the best thing to use some firefox plugins like twitbin and shareaholic together.they r better than tweetdeck and seesmic.there are many more plugins too.u can do anything u want.
greeblemonkey
· 5 months ago
Awesome recap. And not just because I appear in a few of the screencaps. ;)
Ted ☯
· 5 months ago
Great article, as usual! AND I made it into some of your screenshots! "Things are gonna start happening to me now" ~Steve Martin in The Jerk
kido
· 5 months ago
本場はすごいことになってるんだなー いろいろ試してみます
Seodeluxe
· 5 months ago
Brilliant and comprehensive article!
Michael Aulia
· 5 months ago
I've tried TweetDeck, DestroyTwitter, and also Seesmic Desktop. So far Seesmic Desktop is the winner but I just wish it has themes support like DestroyTwitter!
AREA 1
· 5 months ago
Great article! I use TweetDeck, it suits best to my needs.
Ada is extremely light weight. It only buffers the last 100 tweets. For those who don't follow many, it's just very quick and has one-click RT, reply, and favorites feature. It also shortens URLs. The interface is clean.
It would be a great replacement for web-only users.
Now, as a power user, there is a different story.
Because ada is resizable, the way it's setup for me is that it fits 25 tweets per page. This allows me to keep up with my 2000 friends in real-time. I have it sitting alongside my Twhirl, which only fits 14 tweets per page.
I'll have more on my workflow on my website shortly.
Dan
· 5 months ago
if you're a heavy Outlook user, TwinBox is a great solution. Let's you take advantage of powerful grouping/searching features native to Outlook.
Dan
· 5 months ago
I know it's not a desktop app, but if you're a heavy Outlook user, TwinBox is a great solution. Let's you take advantage of powerful grouping/searching/filtering features native to Outlook. It's the best way I've found so far to manage my signal to noise ratio.
Nicchick
· 5 months ago
I really feel that Mixero deserves a mention at the very least. It is by invite code only at the moment. Follow @mixero on Twitter to get your invite. But I tell you, it knocks spots off Tweetdeck already which I agree is the best of the bunch.
Watch out for Mixero, when it comes out of Beta phase is its going to be THE ONE, Neo style!
ingrouille
· 5 months ago
twitux, gwibber or qwit are good linux clients
technogran
· 5 months ago
And you still haven't looked at blu!
sidharth
· 5 months ago
So many of them. Whats their business model going to be? Twitter has not found out one as yet / So are not developers using lot of resources for something whose future is in doubt. I mean they do not yet have a single penny of revenue. What will happen 2 years down the line
ernestoalegre
· 5 months ago
I'm using Tweetie, TweetDeck and Beak (and the old Twitterrific) on a Mac and TweetDeck is the best in my opinion. PeopleBrowsr is a good web service, but it has a non-clear; a bit complicated and bad categorized interface...
JimD
· 5 months ago
Add Groups to Tweetie and it instantly becomes the preferred Twitter client on the Mac - if it isn't already. As it stands, it's an "also-ran" for Twitter power-users
Freddylol
· 5 months ago
I think DestroyTwitter deserves a 4. Plus the name of that app is awesome!hahaha
hilko
· 5 months ago
Concerning the single-account setup of DestroyTwitter. There’s an easy workaround that works wonderfully for me. Here’s how to do it (on OSX): - Go to your applications folder and copy DestroyTwitter.app (call it DestroyTwitter2.app, or something) - right-click on the copy, choose ’show package contents’ and navigate to contents/resources/META-INF/AIR - open application.xml in a text editor and change the text between (to “app.destroytwitter2″, perhaps?)
Presto! Now you can run both applications as separate applications, and use a different account for each. And let me add that even though you're running two (or more) instances of the app, it's probably still using less memory than TweetDeck. Furthermore, now you have keyboard shortcuts! For me, this solution makes DestroyTwitter a better (but unfortunately-named) app than TweetDeck. The only advantages that the latter app still has is saved searches and 'unlimited' columns. Keyboard shortcuts and less memory usage are more important to me though. YMMV, though....
spryka
· 5 months ago
The greatest benefit of Facebook is that it has many groups on the site that you can join. So if you are interested in Chicago Cubs you can research Chicago Cubs in the groups section and you will be able to find friends on there that like the Cubs. This is just one example, I know that you can join groups of your favorite football team, television show, or whatever you want for the most part! If you can't find a group for your interest, you can simply create one!
Yeh but the big problem with Facebook groups is immediacy, half the groups haven't had posts in months.
The reason i built http://www.LiveBaseballChat.com is to have imediate dialog between baseball fans live during the games they are watching at that moment.
@jmillerjr
· 5 months ago
Once again everyone seems to be missing another application in their evaluations. @sobees is a viable social networking application bringing facebook, twitter, blogs, YouTube, Hulu and much more. If you just want facebook and twitter, they have a cousin called bDule that is feature rich. I have tried Tweetdeck and Seesmic; however, I am very partial to bDule as an overall social networking desktop application. It worth a look.
sylviahubbard1
· 5 months ago
i'm loving this article. new twitter fan and fast becoming an addict. I just downloaded Tweetdeck and i'd like to kiss you or name a first born after you.
You missed one: your favorite IRC client (xchat, mirc, etc). It is possible with tircd. Bonus is that you can write scripts for most IRC clients....like one that auto-unfollows anyone that mentions "get more followers with ___"
umm the seesmic and tweetdeck screenshots are swapped.
Dainis Graveris
· 5 months ago
You definitely spent some time time to research, great article - I am still sticking with Tweetdeck, but I am glad you reviewed and tested all those other apps and explained pros and cons.
If you understand the difference between using a web app and a desktop app then you might want to check out www.MyTwitterButler.com
Does the same as Twollow in that it can auto follow twitter users based on 4 keywords per account (can run multiple accounts at the same time) but is run from a desktop so you don’t need to hand over your user name and password.
It's CRAZY powerful, with tons of features (across many social networks) and lots of nice "simple" things (like a filtered view of Followers, you're not Following), vice versa... lots of your natural search permutations already in a drop down. Also enables multiple accounts (e.g. my personal and corporate team account).
It's a sweet 2.0-esque browser app... and comes in an air client... did I mention it keeps all your searches synchronized across the various air clients and the central desktop view on multiple machines?
tiina283
· 2 months ago
u crazzzy
Captain_Howdy
· 5 months ago
Sticking with TweetDeck, for sure. I've had it for a while and it has always been superior. Even their updates are relevant - keeping it ahead of the game.
Giannii
· 5 months ago
Tweetie all the way!
Ed Finkler
· 5 months ago
Jennifer,
Your evaluation of Spaz is inaccurate. It does support uploading images, to a number of different services. You can either drag a photo onto the window, or click Spaz>>Upload Image.
This was a great post and a really nice summary of these top apps. I've used "the big two" plus tweetie for mac and nambu, which is currently my favorite of the desktop apps. I find that Seismic is not easy to easily find users to add to groups. I like Nambu a lot but it has some crashing issues. And I seem to be using Tweetdeck a lot on my iPhone lately.
However, none of the desktop apps seem to have a feature that I get from hootsuite, a online twitter client. I like scheduling my tweets, which none of the others allow me to do - unless I'm not using them correctly. I like to spread my tweets out and send certain ones at certain times of the day. Also, I don't like sending strings of them since I find it annoying when other people (bots) do.
I guess I find the desktop clients better for interacting with other people's tweets and hootsuite better for sending.
Is scheduling important to anyone else?
tiina283
· 2 months ago
nie not really poco?
Milton Ramirez
· 5 months ago
As much as I appreciate desktop clients I am still prefer the web apps for some reasons.
Milton Ramirez
· 5 months ago
As much as I appreciate desktop clients I am still prefer the web apps for some reasons.
Milton Ramirez
· 5 months ago
As much as i respect desktop apps I will stay with web apps. No leaking memory !
Joe
· 5 months ago
i like Seesmic Desktop alot =)
tiina283
· 2 months ago
is dobry?
s.d.SMITH
· 5 months ago
i use tweetdeck on windows and destroy twitter on my mac. i prefer how small i can get my DT and not lose any functionality.
tiina283
· 2 months ago
whats small :)
forbetaorworse
· 5 months ago
I'm starting to use Linux more and so are some of my friends. I'm hard pressed to find a twitter app that even compares to any on the Mac. Any plans for a Linux twitter client roundup? PLEASE?! :)
Michael Douglas
· 5 months ago
Check out Gwibber ( https://launchpad.net/gwibber ) if you're running Gnome or something else with a gtk engine present, or Choqok if you're running KDE (both should be in the repositories for whatever distribution you're using.)
Gwibber is excellent, and I use it all the time in Linux. If it had a Windows client, I'd use it all the time. As it stands, TweetDeck, but I really wish TweetDeck had Identi.ca support =[
I was using TweetDeck and loved the features, until I realised I was only getting feeds from about half of the people I was following. Couldn't see why, except that the ones I'm missing seem to be those who have "protected" their updates.
I am now trying out Seesmic Desktop and can see all of the feeds, but don't like the features as well.
If anyone can shed light on how to pick up all the feeds with TweetDeck thing, that would be great, because I like it better.
XIII
· 5 months ago
Price seems to be missing in the case of commercial apps. I'd rather have a 4.5 star free app than a $25 5 star.
kobi
· 5 months ago
with 8hands you can post both to twitter & facebook
Haya Rizvi
· 5 months ago
Tweetie is BY FAR the best Mac desktop client! The only thing it's missing is multiple accounts, which I doubt most people need anyways. I would give it a 4.5!
David
· 5 months ago
Great article - thanks. It is quite amazing just how many Twitter apps there are now. I'd never heard of some of the 19.
I'd been quite happy with the big two, Tweetdeck and Seesmic, but recently have been using Mixero (which didn't make it to your comparison). It is going to be really interesting to see how these apps all develop and which ones don't make it.
I'm thinking that one area that is going to be really important is integration between desktops and mobile devices. We are in the early stage of this now, with Tweetdeck having the lead.
All in all, competition is great for us users of Twitter. Our applications are going to get better and better.
lionelane
· 5 months ago
While I think that Seesmic and Tweetdeck are the kings of the Twitter client, I have gone back to give Digsby another try since their latest update. On principle, a popular client that gives you Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, IM and is easily collapsible should rate better than 2.5.
Papa
· 5 months ago
Great article, I found your website always full of interesting and great content.
Great comparison! Twitter has certainly become part of our social media lives, marketing strategies, and business objectives.
Guilherme Schmitt
· 5 months ago
I think DestroyTwitter is way better than 3.5 stars.
dariomartinezb
· 5 months ago
On the Windows side, I think you're missing two great contenders:
blu (once my favorite client) has the most appealing interface for a single-account client, an infinite timeline, inline pic viewing and a very small memory cost (compared to many of the AIR clients). http://www.thirteen23.com/experiences/desktop/blu/
Also, bDule, while still in early alpha stage, seems to be impressive in features: Twitter+Facebook+Twitter Search, all can be organized in panels, and has very clever interface.
And regarding DestroyTwitter (one of my main clients), it's the only client that support both inclusive and exclusive filters for the main timeline, and that applies both to users as well as keywords. That's a killer feature for me.
vineeth jose
· 5 months ago
Where the fk is 'Blu' ?
tiina283
· 2 months ago
i dont fuckin no du i?
Mohammad B. Irshid
· 5 months ago
The coolest list ever, I'm a windows user and I use Twhirl, TweetDeck, bDule and Tweetr but My first choice is TweetDeck it's really nice. About web-based I love CoTweet only.
Emanuel Sá
· 5 months ago
You forgot two of the most important Mac desktop clients, Beak and Bluebird. this article without them is far from accurate and not a good group review of such kind of software :)
Svilen Popov
· 5 months ago
bDule is another great option
timwoods
· 5 months ago
Excellent. Now I'm one step closer to world domination. All the knowledge of Twitter users at my fingertips!
tiina283
· 2 months ago
ahoj
tiina283
· 2 months ago
i need a website to get onto twitter u got any?
Edwin Khodabakchian
· 5 months ago
Seesmic Desktop Better rated than Tweetie?!? Boo :-) Impressive list of apps otherwise!
Edwin Khodabakchian
· 5 months ago
Seesmic Desktop Better rated than Tweetie?!? Boo :-) Impressive list of apps otherwise!
Batman
· 5 months ago
Let me know when the five star app comes out :)
tiina283
· 2 months ago
ok ja will du
shortformblog
· 5 months ago
You forgot Twitterfox. It's a Firefox plugin, yeah, but its most recent update certainly makes it very attractive as a lightweight alternative to something like Tweetdeck.
Though, I must say, Seesmic Desktop is a great app which I use all the time for updating my blog.
Greg
· 5 months ago
I'm right there with on TwitterFox.
anantshri
· 5 months ago
I second the suggestion a blog post on browser plugin's will be fun
tiina283
· 2 months ago
sure they will be
Jennifer Van Grove
· 5 months ago
This list is just desktop clients...so we purposely didn't include browser plugins :)
shortformblog
· 5 months ago
I know, I know. :)
I'm convinced the only reason I won't switch to Safari is because I'll miss TwitterFox too much.
Graham Cluley
· 5 months ago
Would be good to see your views on browser plugins for Twitter some time too.
(from another fan of Twitterfox)
iTbay
· 5 months ago
yeah I agree. Especially for Chrome which will be including plugins soon. That's the one thing I love about Firefox compared to Chrome.
Jennifer Van Grove
· 5 months ago
That's definitely a good idea for a future post. Thanks Graham.
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いろいろ試してみます
For power users: http://madan.org/ada/ as a supplemental client
Let me explain :)
Ada is extremely light weight. It only buffers the last 100 tweets. For those who don't follow many, it's just very quick and has one-click RT, reply, and favorites feature. It also shortens URLs. The interface is clean.
It would be a great replacement for web-only users.
Now, as a power user, there is a different story.
Because ada is resizable, the way it's setup for me is that it fits 25 tweets per page. This allows me to keep up with my 2000 friends in real-time. I have it sitting alongside my Twhirl, which only fits 14 tweets per page.
I'll have more on my workflow on my website shortly.
Watch out for Mixero, when it comes out of Beta phase is its going to be THE ONE, Neo style!
PeopleBrowsr is a good web service, but it has a non-clear; a bit complicated and bad categorized interface...
- Go to your applications folder and copy DestroyTwitter.app (call it DestroyTwitter2.app, or something)
- right-click on the copy, choose ’show package contents’ and navigate to contents/resources/META-INF/AIR
- open application.xml in a text editor and change the text between (to “app.destroytwitter2″, perhaps?)
Presto! Now you can run both applications as separate applications, and use a different account for each. And let me add that even though you're running two (or more) instances of the app, it's probably still using less memory than TweetDeck. Furthermore, now you have keyboard shortcuts! For me, this solution makes DestroyTwitter a better (but unfortunately-named) app than TweetDeck. The only advantages that the latter app still has is saved searches and 'unlimited' columns. Keyboard shortcuts and less memory usage are more important to me though. YMMV, though....
James
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The reason i built http://www.LiveBaseballChat.com is to have imediate dialog between baseball fans live during the games they are watching at that moment.
http://code.google.com/p/tircd/
Does the same as Twollow in that it can auto follow twitter users based on 4 keywords per account (can run multiple accounts at the same time) but is run from a desktop so you don’t need to hand over your user name and password.
Cheers,
Dean
It's CRAZY powerful, with tons of features (across many social networks) and lots of nice "simple" things (like a filtered view of Followers, you're not Following), vice versa... lots of your natural search permutations already in a drop down. Also enables multiple accounts (e.g. my personal and corporate team account).
It's a sweet 2.0-esque browser app... and comes in an air client... did I mention it keeps all your searches synchronized across the various air clients and the central desktop view on multiple machines?
Your evaluation of Spaz is inaccurate. It does support uploading images, to a number of different services. You can either drag a photo onto the window, or click Spaz>>Upload Image.
http://skitch.com/funkatron/bi2ud/spaz-upload-i...
Feel free to contact us at spaz@funkatron.com or http://spaz.tenderapp.com if you have other questions.
However, none of the desktop apps seem to have a feature that I get from hootsuite, a online twitter client. I like scheduling my tweets, which none of the others allow me to do - unless I'm not using them correctly. I like to spread my tweets out and send certain ones at certain times of the day. Also, I don't like sending strings of them since I find it annoying when other people (bots) do.
I guess I find the desktop clients better for interacting with other people's tweets and hootsuite better for sending.
Is scheduling important to anyone else?
Gwibber is excellent, and I use it all the time in Linux. If it had a Windows client, I'd use it all the time. As it stands, TweetDeck, but I really wish TweetDeck had Identi.ca support =[
http://www.teratips.com/facebook-vs-twitter-inf...
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I am now trying out Seesmic Desktop and can see all of the feeds, but don't like the features as well.
If anyone can shed light on how to pick up all the feeds with TweetDeck thing, that would be great, because I like it better.
I'd been quite happy with the big two, Tweetdeck and Seesmic, but recently have been using Mixero (which didn't make it to your comparison). It is going to be really interesting to see how these apps all develop and which ones don't make it.
I'm thinking that one area that is going to be really important is integration between desktops and mobile devices. We are in the early stage of this now, with Tweetdeck having the lead.
All in all, competition is great for us users of Twitter. Our applications are going to get better and better.
I will keep checking back!
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blu (once my favorite client) has the most appealing interface for a single-account client, an infinite timeline, inline pic viewing and a very small memory cost (compared to many of the AIR clients).
http://www.thirteen23.com/experiences/desktop/blu/
Also, bDule, while still in early alpha stage, seems to be impressive in features: Twitter+Facebook+Twitter Search, all can be organized in panels, and has very clever interface.
And regarding DestroyTwitter (one of my main clients), it's the only client that support both inclusive and exclusive filters for the main timeline, and that applies both to users as well as keywords. That's a killer feature for me.
Though, I must say, Seesmic Desktop is a great app which I use all the time for updating my blog.
I'm convinced the only reason I won't switch to Safari is because I'll miss TwitterFox too much.
(from another fan of Twitterfox)