From small things like font choice/size the fact that it puts tweeter/time details at the bottom of each tweet often with a chunk of whitespace between those details and the tweet, but directly above the avatar for the following tweet the weak unread count marker and how it marks things as read or doesn’t … something very important when tweets will be in multiple columns. I keep trying to like TweetDeck and indeed gave it another go last night, but its UI has too many niggling faults for me still. Lots of people will like the fact that Twhirl looks more like an IM client window and does NOT take over your whole desktop. It sends messages to ping.fm, for instance, which will redistribute your Tweets onto other services like friendfeed and facebook. Twhirl also has more features than Tweetdeck. So that’s one thing you’ll notice right away about Twhirl: it’s the best way to do Seesmic videos. First, you should know that Twhirl was purchased by Seesmic, which is a video conversation tool. I’ve got to admit, I use TweetDeck more often because I like the layout of columns and the fact that it takes over my whole screen. You can see how that would be useful for, say, someone who worked at a big company and needed to track everything said about her company, her competitors, and the space her company works in. But then the next few columns are things that are interesting to me “Cloud Computing.” “Google.” “TechCrunch.” “Ted.” The fourth has a search for “Scoble.” Fifth has a search for “Scobleizer.” Hey, I’m an egotistical baaahhhhssssttttaaarrrrdddd, so sue me. The third has direct messages that are sent specifically to me. The second shows me replies from people who put into their Tweets. The first on my screen shows all my friends that I’m following. I have it running on an old MacBookPro that is toward the end of its life (had the crud beat out of it) and that’s all that machine does: run TweetDeck. Customer support people who’ve been tasked with making sure that everyone on Twitter is happy. TweetDeck appeals to those who have to watch Twitter all day long. So, anyway, now that we’ve covered my gatekeeping function, why choose one tool over another? If you want me to review another tool well, get more people to talk about it! So, why compare just TweetDeck to Twhirl? Especially when there are dozens of tools to use with Twitter?īecause I listen to the people who I am following and these are the two I see getting discussed all the time. Yeah, if you aren’t a Twitter addict you can skip this post. “Scoble, you’re using some weird language here.” Last night Loic Le Meur released a new version of Twhirl.
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