If you haven’t jumped on the Twitter train yet, then this post will probably not interest you. Then again since quite a few of my recent posts are Twitterish in nature, you may just wanna hit the x now ha! It took some time indeed, but I’m able to say with certainty at this point that I’ve finally been bit by the Twitter bug. I’ve been a member for a year now but only recently finally really started seeing the value of what this nifty little social networking service has to offer. So what better than Twitter? How about some helpful resources and tools that make Twitter itself better? Sound good? Read on!
In this post, I’m going to address the topic of Twitter clients, which are applications that provide an alternative to tweeting directly from the Twitter.com website. There are a gazillion to choose from but after trying out about a dozen, there were two that won in my book, hands down.
Tweet Deck
Gotta have it, can’t live without it. I’ll even go as far as to say that I didn’t get nearly as involved in my tweeting until I installed this beautiful little Adobe Air desktop application. It stacks tweets into columns, completely customizable with as many columns as you can imagine needing. It looks rather like a deck of cards, hmmm Tweet”deck”! Oh and it’s 100% FREE.
It also features a powerful search function, a terrific way to filter out results for quickly narrowing down tweets, and my favorite feature, Groups. When one has hundreds of followers, it’s near impossible to keep track of who’s tweeting what. I use this feature to create Groups and open them in columns. Wanna know what’s being said about something in particular on Twitter? Create a column for that keyword and voila! In addition to all this, NO manual refreshing, all tweets come in automatically in real time.
TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more. TweetDeck shows you everything you want to see at once, so you can stay organised and up to date.
My Tweetdeck
Video Tutorial on how to use Tweetdeck
Tweetvisor
This is a web app and though Tweetdeck does most things I need, there’s a few features Tweetvisor has that I am finding myself relying on. The one main killer feature here is threaded replies/conversations, as far back as you can go. It also offers a one click trip to visit the very first tweets on any profile. Like Tweetdeck, it also features grouping and favorites. There is no real time function but there is an auto refresh. There’s a few glitches that sometimes I have to refresh more than once, but all in all, very promising app!
TechCrunch said:
“Tweetvisor is the best browser based solution we’ve seen.”
My Tweetvisor
There are many mobile people out there who tweet from their iPhones, etc but for those of us glued to our computers and vice versa, the above choices are my picks.
For more comprehensive information about Twitter apps, see the following resources:
- 275+ Twitter Applications
- The Top 21 Twitter Clients (according to Twistat)
- The Top 21 Twitter Applications (according to Complete)
- Twitter Client Applications – The Twitter Fairy
- The Twitpocalypse is Almost Here: Will Your Twitter Client Survive?
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