There’s no one perfect Twitter client yet, but there’s three pretty good cross-platform Twitter clients: TweetDeck, Seesmic Desktop and Orsiso. I recorded a ten-minute video review of all three today on my lunch break:
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If you’re reading this post in an RSS reader, you can view the Twitter client review video on my site. The clients in the video are:
TweetDeck Review
TweetDeck is a column-oriented client: users organize content in columns. On my machine, I’ve got columns for:
- All Users (which really just means the people I’m following)
- Replies
- A public search for SQLServerPedia (so anytime somebody mentions it, I get an alert. I have a few of these types of search columns.)
- Direct Messages
- Facebook – and that’s where things start to get interesting.
TweetDeck can show your Facebook friends’ statuses in a column, and you can update Facebook from inside TweetDeck. Nifty.
Seesmic Desktop Review
Seesmic Desktop is a newer column-oriented client very similar to TweetDeck. In most ways, it’s pretty similar to TweetDeck. Unfortunately, it’s brand spankin’ new, and it doesn’t have Facebook support.
OrSiSo Review
Orsiso looks totally different because it doesn’t do the column-oriented display format. Instead, it focuses on circles of friends: your inner circle, your 2nd layer circle, 3rd, and 4th. You can use these to separate friends, family, work, play, whatever.
Even better, you can track your friends across Twitter, FaceBook, Flickr, instant messaging, LinkedIn, and more. One client to rule them all, I suppose.
It’s not all roses and chocolate: like the other two apps, it’s built with Adobe Air, which is roughly akin to saying it’s like Java only without the speed. It works on any platform, but it’s deathly slow.
So What’s the Best Twitter Client?
I’m taking a two-pronged approach: I fire up Orsiso in the morning to see what my inner circle was up to overnight. That way I can make sure I didn’t miss any of their updates, no matter what social network it was on. Then I close Orsiso and stick with a more flexible column-based client through the rest of the day to get the search features.
More Articles: How to Pick People to Follow on Twitter
- My Simple Twitter Book – free download for a limited time!
- Top 10 Reasons I’m Not Following You On Twitter – wondering why nobody’s following you back?
- Top 10 Reasons I *AM* Following You – how I pick who gets past my virtual bouncer.
- How to Get More Twitter Followers – if you don’t know me well, make sure you read all the way to the bottom. I tend to be a little subtle. (And sarcastic.)
- Twitter Is What You Make It – Think Twitter sucks? I tell you why it’s your own fault.
