So, What Do You Use To Twitter? via Sysomos Blog: “That’s the question we wanted to answer with our latest report focused on the applications to use Twitter. We analyzed a sample of more than 500 million tweets collected over the past five months to determine the most popular applications to use Twitter.”

Sysomos analyzed your tweets and determined that the Twitter website is still the number one tool. I’m not surprised as I know several people personally that only use Twitter.com.

A distant second is Tweetdeck. That’s my client of choice and the one I recommend most often to friends and clients. One of the rising stars is Tweetie. Tweetie is quickly becoming the defacto iPhone Twitter app.

Slicing the pie a different way, Sysomos looked at how many different clients active users use. Limiting active users to those having at least 50 tweets in the last five months. Most interesting fact there? That 82% of users use just one application.

There are some more findings you’ll want to check out there, as well as some nice visuals.

About Sysomos (from their site):

Sysomos brings business intelligence to social media, providing instant and unlimited access to all social media conversations to quickly see what’s happening, why it’s happening, and who’s driving the conversations.

Through the use of contextual text analytics and data mining technology, Sysomos collects data from blogs, Twitter, social networks, messages, boards, wikis and major new sources.

Mirexo is YAATA, Yet Another Twitter Air Application. Kidding aside, it brings us a different look to Twitter. Big selling point is detachable channels or columns.

Mirexo starts off with a simple main application with two panels on either side of a central control column.

As you can see, it doesn’t require a ton of desktop to use. The left side of the application is used for various channels to be displayed. A channel is a selected stream such as all friend, replies, DMs, or a custom channel based on search or a subset of folks you follow.

On the right is your follow list, and a tab away is your list of channels. Adding a new channel is a button click away, and the same holds true for following someone. The central column at the top shows a count of replies, and DMs, as well as providing a single click way to bring up a posting window.

Customizable features aren’t many here. The best feature over other clients is really the detachable channels. In the top picture above, I’ve split out my all friends, replies, DMs, and two channels, a search on origami and a search on #STL. The detached columns are individually adjustable as to height, width and position. Each column can be filtered as well.

One nice feature is the ability to view a conversation thread. Each tweet in the display will show an icon under that users avatar if there is a conversation history. Basically a chain of reply messages.

If you see the icon, click on it to display the thread. Interestingly enough, it will not just show your replies to that user’s tweet, but other’s as well. Gives real context to the conversation.

Things I’d love to see?

• Themes.
• DM button, or shift click on the @ to do a DM.
• Tweet from any window. I’d love to keep the control panel out of the way.

I guess that’s a big enough wish list for now.

Give Mixero a chance if you’ve gotten an invite. If not, follow @Mixero on Twitter and ask for one. They’ll send you out a code pronto.