Which Twitter client to choose?

Before choosing a Twitter client, you should determine, for what device do you need it. There are customers for popular computerOperating systems (Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) and mobile platforms (Windows Mobile, Apple iOS, Symbian, Android, JavaMe), as well as cross-platform applications. Also, the Twitter client can have the form of an extension for the browser or be integrated into the messenger program (ICQ, QIP, Pidgin, etc.). We will talk about clients for personal computers running Windows OS.

CrossDrive Twitter client TweetDeck is considered an official customer. To work it needs Adobe AIR,which will be installed on your computer automatically when you install the application. The user interface of this client is multi-columned: individual columns are allocated for the timeline (message tape), mentions, private messages, popular trends.

The client allows you to publish and viewphotos, retweets of old and new types, simultaneously work with several accounts, manage public and private messages, work with lists and short link services. He also has many other functions.

In addition to Twitter via Twitter, the TweetDeck client can work with accounts in other social networks: Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Foursquare, GoogleBuzz, and add networks that support the Twitter API, for example, Tumblr and WordPress, and watch videos on YouTube. You can create a single TweetDeck account for synchronizing settings on different computers.

This Twitter client has two major drawbacks. First, it does not display the Cyrillic alphabet whenthe default settings, so to display the Cyrillic alphabet you need to dig into the settings. Secondly, you can work with several accounts only on Twitter, and in other social networks - not.

Twhirl - another free cross-platform Twitter client, working on Adobe AIR. This application is quite compact, its functionality is constantly expanding. The program allows you to work with several accounts on Twitter, as well as on networks such as Friendfeed, Seesmic Video and laconi.ca.

Functionality includes notifications of newmessages, reducing long URLs through various services, cross-posting messages to various social networks, uploading images through yfrog, searching for tweets, tracking topics in real-time via stored search, automatic tweets search with mentions of your user. As in the previous case, when you first start Twhirl there may be a problem with displaying Cyrillic alphabet.

Seesmic Desktop is a cross-platform client running on the Microsoft Silverlight software platform. In addition to Twitter, he supports Facebook,LinkedIn and Google Buzz. Like TweetDeck, this client has a multi-column interface. You can work with several Twitter accounts at once. When you click on the nickname of the user in the client, all the functions are available - to quote, make retweet, bookmark, filter, block, add to the list, etc. There is a convenient tabbed tab and search for tweets with the ability to save search phrases.

There are also other Twitter clients, for example, Destroy Twitter, Mixero, Brizzly(online client), Sobees, Media Funnel, Blu, MetroTwit, Janetter, Yoono, Witty Twitter, digiTweet, Spaz, SharedMinds Desktop and even the original Twitter client for office workers SpreadTweet, masquerading as Microsoft Excel. Some of these clients work only with Twitter, some allow you to combine several social networks in one application. Sure, You will surely find yourself a Twitter client who will like you.