Mac twitter clients reviewed
Posted in apple, twitter on May 15th, 2009 by mdwOK so I tried a bunch of twitter clients for OSX 10.5, both desktop apps and dashboard widgets. Here’s my take on them.
- Beak – outstanding UI, but can only use one account at a time now (early beta) – this is the one to watch!
- Destroy Twitter – poor UI: dark theme w/ low contrast, small fonts, NO support for unicode even displaying tweets! Seemed to devour large amounts of system resources => not ready for primetime.
- Nambu – so nice, it’s plain vanilla look is misleading, it actually does all the important stuff including supporting multiple accounts and an organized UI that makes sense!
- Syrinx – nice UI, single account use only
- Tweetdeck – good UI, no support for multiple accounts, shameful lack of unicode support
- Tweetie – best UI of all, slick support for multiple accounts – the winner!
- Twhirl – fairly good UI, supports multiple accounts but gets annoying if more than a couple because you end up with lots of little windows open, shameful lack of unicode support
- Twidget – a dashboard widget that’s compact and reliable, nice choice if you want to use a widget for Twitter, supports one account
- Chirp – another widget, a little prettier UI but takes a lot of room, basic functionality to support a single account
- Twitterrific – not as exciting as the name implies
- BlueBird – not bad, this has the best icon of the bunch (nice blue egg in nest) but seems to only update when it feels like it, and actually displays new tweets BELOW old ones. Multi account support but it’s clunky.
Also I should mention I like splitweet in the web app category, and will need research to pick my faves in iPhone category.
