For the last week I’ve been playing around with Twitter and been trying various clients, both on my desktop and on my phone; it has been surprisingly fun. After all of this fiddling around I have settled on two clients in terms of their speed, size and features.

Windows users in search of a good client and who do not want to install Adobe’s AIR package will not go far wrong with Bitter. These are some of its features:

• Supports Twitter, Plurk and Friend Feed
• Single column UI
• Shows unread tweet count
• Fast install
• Manage multiple accounts
• Twitter tweets, mentions, direct messages, and favourites
• Twitter group tweets
• Twitter search and hash tags
• Twitter screenname intellisense
• View Twitter user's profiles
• Powerful menus to allow you to reply, reply to all, direct message, retweet, copy tweets or link, and more
• Auto spell check
• Colour schemes
• Auto shrinks URLs
• Posts pictures to TwitPic
• Low memory usage

And this is what it looks like:

The best thing about it? It is free! Hooray! Go to the developers website to download it.

On my brilliant TG01 I have been using Panoramic moTweets. There as a free, advert supported version, but since you only have to pay $3.99 for the full version I’d really suggest shelling out the cash. Some of its features are:

• Support for multiple Twitter accounts
• Ability to upload pictures using your device’s camera or from the photo album
• Post your location manually or by using your device GPS
• Tiny URL and bit.ly Support
• Three (3) skin colors
• View Trends, Lists  and Conversations
• Finger friendly, kinetic scrolling menus
• Translate Tweets and Search Twitter topics with ease
• ReTweet, Follow, Unfollow, Direct messages, Replies and Favorites

This is what it looks like on my phone:

You can get the free version or pay for the ad-free offering on Panoramic’s website.

With these two programs you can Tweet to your heart’s content, whether at home, in the office, or on the move. Enjoy!