THE BEST TWITTER APPS FOR WINDOWS
Twitter’s recognition has spurred a growth of large high-quality apps which let we make make make make use of of of of Twitter from a web, desktop or even your mobile phone.
Twitter Desktop Apps for Windows
Here have been a little of a many appropriate programs which will assistance we make make make make use of of of of Twitter from your Windows desktop* – we can download any of them for giveaway as great as they’re all underneath active development. These have been dedicated desktop apps for Twitter as great as to illustrate we won’t find any widgets or browser add-ons for Twitter here.
[*] Some of a Twitter clients referred to here have been formed on Adobe AIR so you might make make make make use of of of of them on Linux as great as Mac as well. Let’s dive in.
TweetDeck – The powerhouse
One of a many renouned Twitter apps, TweetDeck is great for handling all your a a singular preferred amicable services together with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn as great as MySpace from a singular place. Its multicolumn interface not usually allows we to keep up with all your amicable accounts though additionally with Twitter lists as great as any law searches which we might have saved inside Twitter.
With TweetDeck, we can see a really minute form of any Twitter user, we can follow (or unfollow) users as great as even put them in any of your Twitter lists. TweetDeck supports inline interpretation so we can simply review unfamiliar denunciation tweets which might crop up in your Timeline or poke results.
If we work opposite mixed computers, we can setup an comment during TweetDeck as great as which will save we from a con of carrying to configure Tweetdeck on any singular computer. And if we have been no large air blower of Twitter’s retweet function, we can opt for a classical chronicle of "retweet" (RT).
Seesmic for Windows App
Launched during Microsoft PDC ‘09, Seesmic for Windows is a pleasing desktop customer for Twitter with a somewhat unclouded as great as tabbed interface.
Like TweetDeck, Seesmic for Windows can hoop mixed Twitter accounts – we can get a total timeline or demeanour during your @replies, approach messages as great as sent messages for particular accounts separately. You can post a same refurbish /link /photo to a singular or some-more Twitter comment simultaneously.
The tide chronicle is usually a preview chronicle though we can design to see some-more facilities as a growth progresses. This is a local Windows focus as great as doesn’t need Adobe AIR.
Seesmic Desktop for AIR
Seesmic Desktop is a strange Adobe AIR powered Seesmic app, as great as it functions with Twitter as great as Facebook (including Facebook Pages).
With Seesmic Desktop, we can symbol particular tweets as spam, follow brand brand new people as great as unfollow (or even block) alternative people from your timeline. When pity images on Twitter, we can possibly upload images from a desktop or constraint a design right from your webcam.
Although Seesmic Desktop will run on any handling system, it uses a Mac OS impression UI which doesn’t demeanour which great on a Windows desktop. The many appropriate partial about Seesmic Desktop is a await for Facebook Pages – we can post brand brand new messages or even assuage comments on pages which we own.
Twhirl from Seesmic
Twhirl is a discerning as great as easy-to-use Twitter customer with a minimal nonetheless pleasing UI. You can even select your own tone schemes as great as rise styles for a UI.
Unlike heavy-weights similar to Seesmic or TweetDeck, Twhirl doesn’t suggest loads of facilities though if all we need is a approach to quick post standing updates on your Twitter timeline, this could be a great choice.
Twirl additionally offers formation with alternative less-common networks such as identi.ca as great as FriendFeed, as great as lets we cross-post updates to alternative amicable networks around Ping.fm. Twhirl is from Seesmic, a same association a develops formerly referred to Seesmic Desktop for AIR as great as Seemsmic for Windows.
Destroy Twitter
DestroyTwitter, an Adobe AIR powered Twitter desktop client, is again really renouned for a minimalistic though innovative interface.
The singular thing about Destroy Twitter is a await for themes – we can possibly download ready-made themes or make make make make use of of of of a online theme-builder to emanate a singular which matches your taste.
DestroyTwitter uses considerable transitions when switching from a singular shade to an additional as great as it’s substantially a usually desktop customer which lets we revise your own Twitter profile. Then there’s await for Twitter trends so which we can know what’s prohibited on Twitter though carrying to revisit a Twitter site.
Destroy Twitter is lightweight as great as intensely fast. You can additionally configure a focus so which it always stays on top of alternative applications.
Sobees for Windows
Sobees offers a uninformed interface as great as allows we to select your own blueprint for opposite amicable services. Sobees includes an anti-spam underline which will let we retard sure difference from looming in your Twitter stream.
You can run Sobees on any Windows mechanism as prolonged as it has .NET installed. Go here to check either or not we have a compulsory program on your computer.
Blu (Native Windows Twitter Client)
Blu for Windows in a singular word is beautiful. Powered by WPF, Blu showcases your Twitter timeline inside an charcterised as great as full of color interface.
With Blu, we can reply to your Tweets inline so we don’t remove afterwards tide view. Then we can corkscrew unlimitedly so we can simply see comparison tweets though carrying to click anything (just similar to picture poke in Bing).
But a many appropriate partial is this – if we see a summary in your Twitter tide which is in reply to an additional tweet, we can click this summary to see a strange twitter which proposed a total conversation.
Blu doesn’t await mixed Twitter accounts, we cannot follow your lists in Blu, there’s no preference to poke tweets nonetheless it’s impressive.
Mixero for AIR
AIR powered Mixero is directed during shortening sound as great as creation it simpler for we to keep lane of updates which could be some-more critical to you.
It offers modernized filtering so we can censor spammers from your Twitter tide (based on usernames or even stop-words), as great as lets we prepare those we follow in to groups which have been integrated with Twitter lists. You can preview images from Twitpic, Flickr, YouTube video frames, etc. though delay in your timeline.
A really singular underline in Mixero is "Conversations" – we can click a burble (speech) idol subsequent to any twitter to find all alternative prior tweets which might partial of which conversation. You can be severed windows from a Mixero app as great as prepare them anywhere on a desktop as shown in a screenshot above.
SharedMinds Desktop
The interface of SharedMinds Desktop for Windows is desirous by Outlook 2007 – we can even shift themes from Sliver to Blue as in Microsoft Office. The likeness doesn’t finish here – we navigate tweets usually similar to we pierce opposite annals in an Access database.
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What’s singular about SharedMinds Desktop is a integrated browser – if there’s a couple inside a tweet, we can review a analogous web page though delay inside a Twitter customer though carrying to launch a apart add-on in your browser. However, we cannot share cinema as great as alternative files with this app.
Open Source Twitter Clients
Spaz, DigiTweet as great as Witty have been a little of a great know Twitter desktop apps which have been open source as well. Spaz requires Adobe AIR which Witty as great as digiTweet have been local Windows’ Apps.
Finally, which is many appropriate desktop app for Twitter?
Well, it depends. If we have been seeking for a elementary app which can assistance we send as great as embrace tweets from a desktop though any bells-and-whistles, check out DestroyTwitter or Twhirl. If we have been seeking for something elementary nonetheless stylish, Blue is a great choice.
Seesmic for Windows sports an considerable interface though it is blank critical facilities (like await for saved searches) so we should wait for for their subsequent release. If we wish to conduct both your Facebook pages as great as Twitter accounts from a desktop, Seesmic Desktop is an preferred customer for you. For everybody else, TweetDeck is a undiluted choice.
Quick Comparison of Twitter Desktop Apps
This list shows a categorical facilities of any of a Twitter apps lonesome above.
Please note which many of a local Windows Twitter apps referred to here need .NET 3.5 or newer, so they will usually run on Windows XP or newer. Adobe Air formed Twitter apps will run on Windows 2000 as great as newer, as great as Mac OS X 10.4 as great as newer as great as complicated Linux distros.
| Twitter Software | Supported Services | Does a App requires Adobe AIR? | Support for Multiple Twitter accounts? | Support for Twitter Lists | Supported media pity sites* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TweetDeck | Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace | Yes | Yes | Yes | TweetPhoto, TwitPic, YFrog, TweetShrink |
| Seesmic Desktop | Twitter, Facebook | Yes | Yes | Yes | Posterous, TwitPic, Twitgoo, yfrog |
| Seesmic for Windows | No | Yes | Yes | Twitpic, YFrog | |
| twhirl | Twitter, identi.ca, Friendfeed | Yes | Yes | No | YFrog |
| DestroyTwitter | Yes | No | No | TweetPhoto, Twitgoo, TwitPic, Posterous, yFrog, TwitDoc, TweetShrink | |
| Sobees lite | Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn | No | Yes | Yes | TweetShrink, TwitPic |
| Blu | No | No | No | TwitPic | |
| Mixero | Twitter, Facebook | Yes | Yes | Yes | TwitPic, YFrog, Posterous, TweetShrink |
| SharedMinds Desktop | No | Yes | No | None |
[*] Here have been a little renouned record hosting sites which have been integrated with many of these Twitter Desktop Apps:
1. TwitDoc lets we share files as great as request on Twitter. Supports PDF, Office documents, video clips as great as striking images.
2. TweetShrink is for shred off those couple of additional letters off a twitter which has exceeded a 140 impression maximum. For instance, "I am fine. How have been we doing?" becomes "i’m fine. How R U doing?" to illustrate saving we space for 5 some-more letters.
3. Twitgoo, yfrog, TwitPic, TweetPhoto have been a little renouned hosting services for pity photographs (and in a little cases, videos) around Twitter.
Related: Do Interesting Things With Twitter
The Best Twitter Apps for Windows
Originally published during Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal.
