Hello peoples!
For my first post on DiskInserted, I thought it would be fun to talk about all the desktop clients that seem to be growing out of the woodwork concering twitting, or posting on Twitter.
If you haven’t heard of the site, or let alone tried it out, here’s a brief rundown of what it does.
In its purest form, Twitter is like taking the bloat out of Facebook and MySpace, it just keeping status updates short and simple. It’s like text messaging, except people have to subscribe, or “follow” you, and vice versa. And like the other social networking websites, you can ban/block, or stay private, choosing only to approve people you know or what have you.
At first, I really didn’t get why we needed another social networking site, but it’s been quite useful. I find myself conversing with friends and colleagues from the day job.
Although we find ourselves Tweeting from the web, you also can install apps on your iPhone, iPod touch, and Blackberry to tweet from wherever you may be. Incidentally, I tweeted during the DiskInserted’s trip to Brooklyn to see Throbbing Gristle. It was quite fun! I felt like the whole world was there with us.
Anyways, when I’m not tapping on my iPhone, I like to use a whole bunch of desktop Twitter clients on my iMac, and you can try them out, too. See which fits you best!
Our first client is one I just discovered this morning. Called pocket*, this client rocks, because it rests non-obtrusively under your menu bar. It boasts several themed colors, like orange, black, sky blue, and red, and everything is quite compact. It’s good for the minimalists who want to stay in the know!
Next we have the Twitter plug-in which is featured in the nightly builds of everyone’s favorite multi-network, IM client, Adium! Extremely handy, it keeps all your tweets and your friends’ tweets in one window! Any time someone posts something new, you don’t have to launch a new tab in your browser, or switch to another app. Major high fives go to Adium’s developers for adding this baby in!
Of course, no app can go unnoticed when it comes from The Icon Factory. Those wacky ladies and gents give us awesome desktop pictures, icons, and other cute lil’ handy utilities. They also churned out Twitterific, for both iPhone/iPod touch and the Mac!
And as always, you have to give them props for such gorgeous looking apps! Twitterific sports a sexy GUI, plus adorable lil’ bird chirps to let you know when a new tweet comes in. Sometimes, and I mean very seldom, those sounds do get annoying, but that’s ok, its visuals compensate!
One of the first clients I ever used was recommended by Bob Lefsetz. It’s an Adobe AIR app called TweetDeck! And it’s pretty BIG, but really cool! It also works on Windows and Linux!
TweetDeck covers all your tweeting needs by dividing them into columns. You get one colum for tweets from the people you follow, another for replies to your tweets, also known as “mentions,” and even a column listing all your direct messages. If you have enough screen real estate, you can even hook yourself up with another column to view profiles of your friends and potential followers. I’d recommend this bad boy for power Tweeters who have large displays.
Beak is another client I recently discovered, and visually, its GUI really is pretty. It reminds me of a sexy IM client, hehe. Sometimes you can’t really divulge too much on an app when its simplicity does the talking for it, but a mention here is totally worth it.
I covered the bases on some Twitter clients I like to use, how ’bout you tell us what you like to use?
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Well, it looks like T-Mobile is doing things right after the recent network outages and Sidekick issues that took place not too long ago! My friends over at CrackBerry informed me of a current promotion that’s taking place where current BlackBerry owners can receive $50 or more via mail-in-rebate for trading in their current device for a new BlackBerry! After grabbing the Curve 8900 back in April of this year, I was annoyed to find out about the new BlackBerry Bold 9700 being released just a few short months later. Being T-Mobile’s first 3G BlackBerry with OS 5.0, I just had to find a way to get my hands on it.
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