Twitter is the hottest social networking tool on the planet, especially for businesses and internet marketers. Most internet marketers have several Twitter accounts which makes updating and tracking these multiple accounts somewhat tricky. After all… logging in and out and back in again to every Twitter account would cause most folks to tear their hair out and give up! Along comes the Twitter desktop app! A Twitter desktop app will allow you to stay logged into all of your Twitter accounts, see every update, see all your replies and direct messages, as well as easily tweet and retweet from your various Twitter accounts. Desktop Twitter apps also integrate URL shortening services so that tweeting shortened links has never been easier.
And the 3 best Twitter apps are:
#3 Seesmic Desktop
Seesmic’s Twitter desktop app has the potential to end up #1 on our list at some point in the future. We love this app! It’s column based and you can see all of your Twitter accounts together in one column. Seesmic also offers Facebook support which is important to some users (I find it as a distraction). Seesmic is still a tad rough around the edges (literally). We would love to see Seesmic not try to mimic the look and feel of the operating system, instead, come up with a unique look and feel that separates it from the operating system. Still this is a up-and-coming Twitter desktop application.
#2 TweetDeck
TweetDeck was my favorite Twitter app until Tweetie came along (see #1 below). TweetDeck has a slick user interface and TweetDeck makes it easy to follow multiple Twitter streams. One big problem with TweetDeck is setting up the columns is complicated and often times confusing. All of my tweets, replies, and direct messages should automatically be grouped together without me needing to arrange them. One thing I love about TweetDeck is the ability to Tweet to multiple Twitter accounts all at once (just enter your Tweet and then select the accounts you want to Tweet to and hit enter!) very cool. If TweetDeck would move away from the horizontal scrolling model and come up with an integrated way to keep each Twitter accounts tweets, replies, and direct messages together it might regain it’s top spot in the list.
#1 Tweetie
Tweetie kicks butt and takes names, it’s everything you want in a Twitter desktop application. Tweetie features a stunning user interface and is totally intuitive, anyone can quickly start using Tweetie without reading a single instruction. All of my Twitter accounts are in one column and I can easily select tweets, replies, or direct messages. It’s tough to find anything wrong with Tweetie although if you want to avoid some minor advertisements you need to cough up $19.95 and there is no Windows version that I am aware of. Tweetie does not offer Facebook support but guess what? Who cares?? This is a Twitter client not a Facebook client and frankly I use Twitter in a dramatically different way than I use Facebook so I prefer that they are totally separated. Tweetie just looks and feels right and I am very surprised that Tweetie doesn’t get more attention from the people who review these types of things, Tweetie is generally a after thought among most reviewers but if you ask me it’s at the top of the heap!
Truth be told… all three of the above Twitter clients are excellent, but at the moment Tweetie reigns supreme!
