Twitter Seesmic Desktop Client

April 8th, 2009 | Review, Social Networking, Tools

Seesmic Twitter Desktop Client

Seesmic’s team has released a new Twitter desktop client. It supports several much requested features.

Feature Highlights

Multiple Twitter ID support – reading and posting
Multiple column
Easy search – converts to column
Closing columns is not the same as deleting – searches and other columns saved
Easy to generate user lists – become columns
Adobe Air application – runs across platforms

These aren’t unknown across other Twitter clients, but it’s a total revamp of Twhirl, the previous Seesmic client. Mind you the version I’m trying out is a ‘preview’ release and some or all of the features may change.

First look

Seems smoother than other clients – might just be perception, but I’m not seeing the spinning disk on my Mac
Color scheme could use some work or themes
Easy to form user lists and searches. Doing a search instantly forms a column and places it out to the right. Same for user lists.
Seems to grab all available friend updates – was never sure about this with clients before
Includes easy short URL and image support, including built in web cam shots. <- fun bonus

All in all, I’m not sure it’ll replace Tweetdeck as my preferred client. It doesn’t have integration with Facebook or 12Second.tv, both of which I use. If you don’t care about that integration then I recommend giving this a try.

Since it’s preview, you’ll have to register at the Desktop site. You’ll receive an email shortly after that to download it.

If you aren’t using a Twitter client, then you aren’t really enjoying Twitter.