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!