Comments on: New to Twitter? Use a Twitter client

By: sexyinvancity.com » Emme’s Twitters on 2008-09-22

sexyinvancity.com » Emme’s Twitters on 2008-09-22 — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:37:35 +0000

[...] getting to @hummingbird604 suggestion to use Twhirl, but Adobe Air isn’t available to Linux users. Anybody know of a [...]

By: jnarvey

jnarvey — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:30:39 +0000

Much obliged for the Twitter intelligence, Raul. I definitely plan on exploring it more in the next couple of days. You rock!

By: miss604

miss604 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:04:38 +0000

I know John is a huge fan of Twitterfox. I for one, still haven’t moved off Twitteriffic. It was shaky to start but it’s much better recently.

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:44:53 +0000

Wow, a whole post dedicated to my silly question on Twitter! Okay not just mine. Hehe, anyway, very helpful. I will check out Twhirl since that seems to be the general consensus. Also? I am PC-based. Though hopefully not for too much longer.

By: inaequitas

inaequitas — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:16:55 +0000

While I appreciate that Twitterrific is short on features when compared to Twhirl, I’d say it depends how you use Twitter. I’ve used both for quite some time and I’m settled on Twitterrific [for the Mac and for the iPhone] because the UI is clean and the Mac version is brilliant to use, for a few reasons. I’ll admit, though, that I didn’t get it at first, and did everything via web or with a Quicksilver script

Another Air application is TweetDeck, which does some more things with Twitter, allowing for better tracking of terms etc

And if you have a decent text plan, adding Twitter mobile is a must, even if only to send updates to your account. It really helps ‘get’ Twitter IMO.

By: Emme

Emme — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:14:49 +0000

Cool! Thanks for the info Raul! Bookmarking and going to play with this later today, once all the work is done.

Have a fabulous day!

Emme

By: Rod Templeton

Rod Templeton — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:44:11 +0000

I’m PC-based, too, and I tried Snitter and TwitBox before settling on Twhirl. Snitter is an Adobe Air app, similar to Twhirl, but I found that it started having issues where it would start up but not poll for new tweets. In fact, I fired it up yesterday, and it was having the same issue, so I went back to Twhirl.

Like you, though, I’d recommend Twhirl for all Twitter newbies. And, yeah, I could stand a donation of a MacBook too

By: Carol Sill

Carol Sill — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:42:04 +0000

I’m with Twhirl, Raul. Love to see that @hummingbird604 popping up!

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:14:47 +0000

Twinkle is iPhone only and Twitterrific is terrible. Twitterrific looks okay, but is completely useless when talking about the actual functions versus, say, Twhirl.

I am a Mac user and use Twhirl – I honestly think it is the best Twitter client out there at the moment.