Software: TweetDeck 0.25b
What it does:
Toots your tweets from your desktop and receives tweets from those you follow. Displays ‘All Friends’, ‘Replies’, ‘Direct Messages’ and more, in parallel columns.
What makes us hard:
- Inbuilt URL shortening using many of the latest available services, including the new Digg short url service.
- Post updates to facebook.
- Filter tweets by Name, Text, Source and Time.
- View links to TwitPic’s from within TweetDeck.
- ‘Groups’ allows one to create a stream of tweets from specific users (so you can still follow/handshake people, and avoid their tweets about the awesome tomato sandwich they just made).
What makes us floppy:
- No mutliple accounts management, ala Twhirl and the Tweetie.
- To ‘untick’ a tweet as read, one has to dexterously click on a tiny circle (bottom left) whereas in Twhirl, one can click anywhere on the tweet to ‘untick’; much easier and therefore quicker.
In conclusion:
There are many other features the latest beta of TweetDeck has to offer that may come in handy – especially if you need to translate your tweets into another language. But if you have multiple twitter accounts you frequently use, you’re out of luck for the moment.
A popular app with the twitter community, Tweetdeck is a solid and good looking choice.
Download for free from tweetdeck.com
