Dec 04
Alternatives to TweetDeck?
I don’t know what kind of program TweetDeck is calling itself. I hear it’s one of many that allow you to stay in touch with the social networking universe without having to load up every one of those sites in a separate tab in Firefox. I phrase it that way because other than TweetDeck, I have no experience with any other PC application that lets you do this stuff.
Now let me say from jump (and which will probably be covered in the followup post) that I’m really happy with TweetDeck. Even though some may view these kinds of programs as general distractions, the fact remains that before I used this program I was constantly stopping what I was doing, firing up a web browser, and going back and forth between sites and pages in those sites checking all the latest posts and tweets going round. Now with TweetDeck constantly running, I get popup notifications that (imo) are relatives unintrusive and really don’t knock me out of my flow when doing work.
But I think that in any event this weekend, I’m going to go ahead, do some research and try to find the biggest programs out there and do a little compare and contrast for next week. Again, don’t get me wrong – I really like TweetDeck for what I use it for, but I just have this sneaking suspicion that there’s other stuff out there that I should at least be checking out.
What say you? Do you have any recommendations for me to look at?
December 5th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Hey bud – I’ve used Twhirl and most recently DestroyTwitter (part of a suite of Destroy tools). DestroyTwitter is small and less bulky so I enjoy that for using Twitter. Although Tweetdeck is pretty all encompassing for the heavy user.
The thing about DestroyTwitter is that once you start typing an @ for a person, it automatically brings up a list of your connections so you don’t have to figure out if you are spelling the name right. Not sure if Tweetdeck has that feature.
December 7th, 2009 at 4:51 am
Seesmic for Windows is very similar to the Tweetdeck layout but works in Silverlight and is worth a look if you like that style.
I also use Twhirl on PC which is also from Seesmic. And Tweetie but that is only on the Mac and iPhone.
December 7th, 2009 at 9:44 am
@Andre – Thanks for the input and that’s a nice little thing on DestroyTwitter with the whole @ thing.
@Pete – Mucho gracias for the notes and I’ll take it all in when I get around to doing this stuff!