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Matti NarkiaEarly adopters are always looking for the best way to get their mission accomplished. The Twitter mission has grown into the development of a large pool of clients, add-ons and graphing abilities that never seem to stop coming.
I personally get lost and confused daily on the best Twitter client I should be using. I spend considerable time in a browser, so the first thought was to check into one of the many FireFox extensions. That bombed quickly as I am always using different applications. Then I realized I was still using a chat client, so I looked into abilities for MSN, GTalk and the remainder. Frustration always set in because no matter where I was, Twitter was becoming a major communication channel, replacing everything else.
So I digressed from the focus on integration with existing daily applications and went on a hunt for the best standalone client. The requirements were quite simple. I want a client that has a large set of capabilities, uses limited resources, and offers a stunning UI. Twhirl was a leader in this, running on the Adobe Air platform. A recent challenger was released on the same Adobe Air platform, called TweetDeck. Let's take a look at the current version of both and compare the two from my usage tests.2008 July mashable twitter twhirl tweetdeck review microblogging social_networking social_networks social networking network networks popular
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Richard BurtonTwo Twitter clients reveiewed head-to-head. Which is best?
tools software twitter tweetdeck twhirl comparison review web2.0
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Twhirl (as shown here in figure 1 for version 0.8.3 ) goes for the sidebar look and feel. Tall and thin. You can move it where you wish and still have other applications right next to it.
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Shorten a URL
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Filtering to reduce and focus the stream if you follow numerous people
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Group will take certain users and make an auto updating panel of them.
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Search will make a panel based on keywords. A great way to watch in a polling fashion. Examples to watch are your name, company or product.
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Hidden on the upper right of figure 2 was a small icon with a small number 1. This reduced the giant, black, block of doom into a single column of just recent tweets of those you follow. This can be clicked again to expand back out. I wish they had made this more prominent, and change it from the number 1 to whatever column count you have to make it apparent for expanding again.
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Twhirl offers a myriad of settings. Multiple account ability is the first item I enjoyed. You may enter multiple login information and have these accounts open automatically upon launch, or manually when needed.
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I enjoyed the ability to set a notification based on type of event (reply, direct) instead of just a global setting that is normally found in newer clients.
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TweetDeck was missing a preferences panel
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whirl utilized 86MB of RAM, while TweetDeck sat at 53MB. This is not a huge difference
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I would love the ability to group those I follow into some smaller cliques. Then each clique could be updated on a different time basis that I independently set. While TweetDeck did not offer the alternate time updates, the grouping feature proved useful until it worked against me. I could not find a good way to create reasonable groups that made sense. If you follow too many people (this is subjective I know), try creating only a couple groups for close friends and associates and leave the rest for the main updating area.
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TweetDeck does have one heck of a capability that is the sore point from a user perspective. Outages. TweetDeck offers the ability to send Tweets while Twitter does one of the most incredible disappearing acts known to man. Twitter can simply vanish for hours leaving tens of thousands stunned and amazed. TweetDeck can store these and send them when Twitter decides it has had enough vacation and comes back online.
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tried out TweetDeck when it began it’s public beta, and now I don’t plan on using anything else. It’s mostly because of the groups function (since I’m following 300+ people who update frequently), but there are certain people who are more important to me than most. Those people have a group and it makes my life much, much, easier.
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I work with Firefox and TweetDeck side-by-side, so something that contrasts with typically white backgrounds on webpages is a great visual separator. Being dark, and a bit bland, makes it much less of a distraction when I’m actually focused on something.
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I had used Twhirl & thought it was great. But, when I did not want to follow every Tom, Dick, & Harry that may post about a specific topic I was stuck with another open tab.
I switched to TweetDeck and now have my columns with my search terms right there so, I can easily scan through. That is the biggest reason that I prefer TweetDeck. -
Tweetdeck is literally weeks old , twhirl has matured for far longer.
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I find the UI for Tweetdeck to be a little more black and white and easy to use.
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Frustration always set in because no matter where I was, Twitter was becoming a major communication channel, replacing everything else.
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