After trying out several different Twitter clients, I think I have found the one for me that gets the job done. I decided to go with twhirl, because it is one of the most highly recommended Twitter clients out there.
Here are the key features that I enjoyed the most:
- shorten long URLs (using bit.ly, snurl, twurl or is.gd)
- search tweets using Twitter Search and TweetScan, and follow topics in near-real time with saved searches
- automatically find tweets mentioning your @username
Another thing I really needed, which from what I could tell TweetDeck didn’t provide was multiple account support. Since I am now working on my own Twitter account and the Lunarpages Twitter account, I needed a way to keep them both separate but running at the same time.
The only annoyance I have found with twirl is that when running multiple clients for multiple accounts, you can’t have one be a different color than the other. If any developers are reading this, that would be a handy feature to toss in there.
So, twhirl gets my geek candy seal of approval. Come follow me and see what I am doing throughout the day @mitchkeeler and @lunarpages.
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