by Mary Kate Smither, VOLLMER Dallas
Ever feel like you’re tweeting your day away, spending more time online answering the question "What Are You Doing?" and trying to absorb what everyone you’re following is doing too? If you’ve answered yes, it’s worth checking out one of Twitter’s desktop applications that can make viewing and participating in one of today’s fastest-growing social media tools much easier and more efficient. While there are several to choose from, both Tweetdeck, created by Iain Dodsworth, and Twhirl, developed by Seesmic, offer users a quick start-up and easy use.
A small collapsible desktop window, Twhirl will run on both Windows and Mac systems, spell checks your entries, allows you to post pictures via Twitpic, provides notifications for newly-received messages and searches for tweets referencing your user name as well as filtering by your own designated terms. Twhirl also allows for the cross-posting of tweets to Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn as well as a variety of other sites.
Tweetdeck, a column-view format, is a public beta application that offers users the ability to group fellow tweeters however you’d like – by work, personal, interest groups, etc. – allowing you to view each column and separately. It also allows for searching across the Twittersphere, enhancing the capability to keep tabs on any subject that is tweeted about. Finally, Tweetdeck can be sized on your desktop from a single column to full screen, provides stored overnight global tweets so you won’t miss a single tweet and can be filtered according to text, username source or time.
Both applications run on the Adobe Air platform and can be viewed and downloaded at http://twitter.com/downloads.
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