5 Twitter Desktop Clients for Mac OS X.

Vinay — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:41:46 +0000

Since its creation in 2006, Twitter has grown extensive notability and popularity worldwide. It is often described as the “SMS of Internet”. Twitter is a community based website where users post what they are doing at any given moment. The concept is deceptively simple, wickedly addictive and pure fun. Tell friends, colleagues or strangers what you are snacking on, your current interests, favorite websites. Twitter the fastest growing social site, Twitter had a growth of 1382%, Zimbio had a growth of 240%, followed by Facebook with a growth 228%. Twitter began experiencing problems related to its growing number of users in 2007. The service has experienced outages resulting from traffic overloads due to its increased popularity. Twitter experienced approximately 98% uptime in 2007, or about seven full days of downtime. When Twitter experiences an outage, users see the “fail whale” error message screen created by Sydney artist and designer Yiying Lu.

When it comes to Windows there are so many choices & alternatives for Twitter Dektop Clients. In the following article we ranked five most popular Twitter Desktop Clients for Mac OS X system.

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1 Twitterrific (14.95 $) : Twitterrific is a fun application that lets you both read and publish posts or “tweets” to the Twitter community website. The application’s user interface is clean, concise and designed to take up a minimum of real estate on your Mac’s desktop. Twitterrific’s user interface is designed to let you view as much or as little information as you desire. The application shows a scrolling list of the latest tweets from either your friends or public feeds. The list can be shown in a collapsed or expanded mode. Scroll through all tweets quickly in either mode with the ↓/↑ keys

2 Spaz (FreeWare) : Spaz is a Twitter client for users who value free, open-source software, attractive design,

and customizability. Spaz is a cross platform application and available on all AIR-compatible platforms: Windows, OS X, and Linux. It is Written in pure Javascript, XHTML and CSS. Utilizes the powerful jQuery Javascript framework. You need to install Adobe Air Framework before installing the Spaz. Spaz also supports Short URL creation tool with support for multiple services (is.gd, bit.ly, snurl.com, and more). Spaz is an open source release the source code of Spaz.AIR is available in the .air file — you should be able to open it with any “unzip” tool.

3 Twhirl (FreeWare) : Twhirl is another popular Twitter client for Mac and Windows. Twhirl uses the Adobe

Integrated Runtime (Adobe AIR) to function, making it compatible with Windows and OS X. Twhirl integrates itself with many online Twitter mashups such as TwitPic and Tweetscan to provide even more Twitter features. Twhirl also includes cross posting to a number of Twitter-like sites, such as Pownce, Jaiku, and full support for FriendFeed. Twhirl offers great integration with other Twitter mashups, but lacks integration with the specific operating system you’re running.

4 TwitterPod (FreeWare) : TwitterPod is an interesting Twitter client from the author of a personal favorite,

Spirited Away. This stand-along application design uses Core Data to store your tweets, making them available for searching, etc. Other features includes a Smart Drawer (a kind of mini web-browser), quick reply, Growl support, and more. TwitterPod also gives you three types of views: All, Me, and URL. “All” shows you all of your friends tweets, while “Me” shows you your tweets and replies to you. “URL” shows all of your tweets and your friends tweets containing external links, which is a neat and unique feature.

5 Lounge Free (beta testing) : Lounge for Mac is a strong client if you are looking for alternatives to

incumbents and ho-hum Adobe AIR clientsLounge for the Mac, currently in public beta, offers a broad set of Twitter tools. Separate, reorderable lists allow you to view the timelines of your friends, the public, replies, and even a “vanity” section that includes any mention of your Twitter user name. A search section keeps a list of your latest terms, and you can save searches to the left sidebar for easy access. Lounge began as an iPhone app, and now is in development of the desktop version. This makes it one of the few twitter apps to have a mobile and desktop counterpart.

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5 Twitter Desktop Clients for Mac OS X.