Tired of Browser Twittering - Meet Twhirl
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It’s true. Twittering through your broswer is not everyone’s idea of easy. The bulky browser gobbles up screen space and in a moment of forgetfulness, you’ll click and close the “unwanted window” because you forgot it was running your Twitter updates.
Agggh! Welcome to a simpler, more desk friendly version. A small client that does one thing, and one thing only - Twitter management.
Meet Twhirl.
What is twhirl?
twhirl is a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform.
Some of twhirl’s features:
* runs on both Windows (2000/XP/Vista) and Mac OSX
* connects to multiple Twitter, identi.ca, Friendfeed and seesmic accounts
* notifications on new messages
* shorten long URLs (using snurl, twurl or is.gd)
* cross-post twitter updates to Pownce and Jaiku
* post images to TwitPic
* search tweets using Twitter Search and TweetScan
* timeline filtering
* localized to English, German, Italian and Spanish
* color schemes
* automatically check for new versions
There are a lot more things twhirl can do to improve your twitter experience, and it offers various configuration options to adapt to your personal needs.
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Chalk another vote of support for Twhirl!
I’ve used it for a few months and use it for tweets 90 percent of the time, with various other twit apps the rest of the time. I rarely use the web interface.