Twitter User? Use Tweetdeck or Else

I used the Twitter Toolbar for Firefox, http://www.bestwebimage.com/?page_id=1112 but I guess that is expected since I made it.

I love TweetDeck too. Liked it when it first came out but still preferred Twhirl (simple interface & different cowbell for tweets/replies/directs).

The November update brought enough features (like sound notification) to make it my primary crack pipe.

Today’s release sweetens the deal even more.

One Twitter interface to keep an eye, though, is . It’s alpha and only web-based but it’s worth a test-drive. It may be overwhelming (and seizure-inducing). Remains to be seen where it goes. TweetDeck still has it beat as far as usability.

TweetDeck seems to be the standard to beat for us TwitterCrackheads (although Twhirl was my first girl, so there’s still some love left over there).

On my Mac I use Twitterrific, and on the PC at work I use Twhirl, though I’ll occasionally fire up TweetDeck on both to see if I missed any replies or DMs.

For me, I love TweetDeck, but it just takes up too much space to have it popping up all the time on the PC, and I don’t like that I can’t minimize it to the menu bar like I can with Twitterrific. (Small reason, I know, but still something that just irks the perfectionist part of me.)

@CoryOBrien

Tweetdeck is definitely the best Twitter client I used ’til now, The best feature it has is that you can create groups, for example “designers”, “local tweets”, etc.
I found that using Tweetdeck on two monitors is really cool ’cause you don’t have to alt+Tab all the time :)
@renesilva

TweetDeck is totally awesome, especially now that they released some pretty nifty upgrades just yesterday or today. Now it’s checking spelling and adding people to groups is much easier.

They’ve got some great things in store over there and I’m excited to see what’s coming down the pipeline.

just try tweetdeck yesterday and tweet about it here: http://twitter.com/fullfilth/statuses/1076108157. i’m bact to use twhirl because:

-tweetdeck use my screen a lot even if using only 1 main panel.
-too many unused space in their application.
-no multi account support.
-no theme. (not really important)

what i like about tweetdeck is they can show lots of activity when open it. not like twhirl (only 20). not sure if can customize this. if can please tell me!

p/s: i wish i can login using facebook connect to comment and pull this activity to facebook :-)

I’m using Twhirl simply because I don’t have that many twitter contacts – its easy enough to manage the dozen or so with a single pane. Tweetdeck looks pretty slick though!

I like Tweetdeck, but I prefer Peoplebrowsr as I can use it from anywhere.

I like Tweetdeck but agree about the realestate it takes up. It’s great on a second monitor. Since I’m not always on 2 monitors, I run Twhirl on the far left and keep my browser sized so I see the icons and usernames on Twhirl. then I know if I should click over or not.

What I’ve been experimenting with that is working fairly decently is to create a favorites group in FriendFeed then subscribe to that group’s RSS. Now I’m getting my favorite peoples all stuff in RSS, yet watching the river of twitter in real time. If I miss something, RSS searches and FF pretty much take care of it.

May I offer a suggestion to clear up your real estate?

Instead of running both the Replies column and a Global Search column for “Brogan,” delete them.

Then, create a custom search column for [@chrisbrogan OR brogan] which ought to solve both columns in one.

Yay tweetdeck. One thing I love is being able to filter a column (at the bottom of each column). I exclude all tweets with ‘train’–I’m just not so interested in the public transport delay updates. :-)

Am I the only one who doesn’t like TweetDeck? It’s clunky and ugly and doesn’t function properly. I DESPERATELY want an app that will allow me to easily group my contacts and scroll through their updates. TweetDeck supposedly gives you that functionality, but doesn’t bother giving me my full list of people I follow so I can actually group them. Just waiting around for them to tweet is asinine. If I’m making a group, I want it to be complete when I create it.

I tried TweetDeck when it first came out. I tried it a couple months later. I tried it a few days ago. Every time it’s had very very minor improvements but is still just not a functioning app to me. I already deal with twitter being on the fritz with its functionality, why would I want to deal with that in the app I’m using to extend Twitter functionality?

I just use Twhirl, but mostly I use iTweet. Hopefully iTweet will give me multiple accounts and maybe even contact grouping at some point. I’ll be a real happy camper then. iTweet looks nice, has fixed any functionality issues VERY quickly and has added tons of functionality to Twitter. I love it. To the guy who thought Twhirl’s updates were too intrusive: turn the sounds and the pop ups off then. That’s completely in your control.

I haven’t found a client that will manage two (or more) Twitter accounts, but one website that will do it is Splitweet.com Pretty cool service.

Drew – You must not have been looking very hard. Twhirl lets you manage multiple accounts as well as Friendfeed.

Maybe I’m hung over from too much figgy pudding… but I didn’t think either of those clients gave you simultaneous feeds on multiple accounts… my bad.

Twhirl I can see multiple accounts at once, but I have no clue how to set up TweetDeck to do that. Please explain.

Tweetdeck doesn’t have that functionality.

That’s what’s keeping me from using TweetDeck. Would be nice to turn one or more of those columns into feeds from multiple accounts.

I love Tweetdeck too and I’m running it on Linux. That last update wasn’t so smooth for me though but after I got it working I love the improvements – especially narrow columns and spell check.

I love TweetDeck because I don’t have to open another browser tab to shorten the url of anything I’m twitting about, the multi-column interface is lovely, and if I am in a twitter rut I sure can retwit any of worthwhile post of my friends.

I’m pretty new to Twitter and I find that TweetDeck helps just with organizing things. I’ll have to try other stuff at some point but at least this is better than just going to the site itself where everything is jumbled together.

@Mark Stevens I believe the 3 scrolls per mouse wheel click is a function of the mouse software. It just sends 3 scroll messages to the software. You can change the mouse setting but that will affect all applications.

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the wonderful blogpost. I use TweetDeck on my Laptop and Twhirl on my Desktop and I like both of them. But yes, TweetDeck does have an edge over Twhirl.

Wishing everybody a belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. :-)

Best Wishes,

Shinil.
@shinils on Twitter – http://twitter.com/shinils

TweetDeck was pretty nice, but I compared it’s footprint to twhirl and Twitterific and it was by far the most resource intensive. All Adobe Air apps were pretty high on memory usage, but TweetDeck was using 170 MB of RAM! That may not sound like a lot when you’ve got 2 or 4 GB but compared to a native application like Twitterific that uses 25-85 MB, it’s a significant difference.

I’d also get random crashes or problems… not sure if it was an Adobe Air platform issue or something specific with TweetDeck.

I wish TweetDeck would take the application one step further and make a native OSX app.

I use my Web browser first for Twitter. I just like the way it looks and feels and have a rhythm to how I click Replies or DMs or back Home.

But when I want to tweet on one of my other 6 Twitter accounts, I open Twhirl so I can be access all of my accounts at once.

I didn’t like Tweetdeck because I couldn’t figure out how to add multiple accounts. The convenience to me isn’t access to all the parts of Twitter but the access to the various accounts I set up to serve distinct purposes.

When Twhirl is not open, I am woefully neglectful of those other accounts. When it is, I’m like a Twittermaniac with multiple personalities.