Mashable.com puts Twhirl and Tweetdeck in the ring.
Posted on 08. Feb, 2009 by admin in TwitterClients, TwitterNews
WORDS FROM MASHABLE.COM: Early adopters are always looking for the best way to get their mission accomplished. The Twitter mission has grown into the development of a large pool of clients, add-ons and graphing abilities that never seem to stop coming.
I personally get lost and confused daily on the best Twitter client I should be using. I spend considerable time in a browser, so the first thought was to check into one of the many FireFox extensions. That bombed quickly as I am always using different applications. Then I realized I was still using a chat client, so I looked into abilities for MSN, GTalk and the remainder. Frustration always set in because no matter where I was, Twitter was becoming a major communication channel, replacing everything else.
So I digressed from the focus on integration with existing daily applications and went on a hunt for the best standalone client. The requirements were quite simple. I want a client that has a large set of capabilities, uses limited resources, and offers a stunning UI. Twhirl was a leader in this, running on the Adobe Air platform. A recent challenger was released on the same Adobe Air platform, called TweetDeck. Let’s take a look at the current version of both and compare the two from my usage tests.
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