atebit's Tweetie Client Review

**Quick Disclaimer: This application is only available for MAC's or the iPhone. However, I will be illuminating features that you should look for when downloading a twitter client for your PC.

I recommend this client if you don't already have a Twitter client, but it does not possess huge advantages over any other twitter client out there (although it does have some).

Quick Summary
Twitter has made it possible to access their service through a variety of methods. These include clients for your computer, mobile phone, website, text (the list keeps going). The twitter space is crowded with a considerable amount of clients and finding one that works for you is the most important thing.

Tweetie is good because it is very clean and basic. It allows you to quickly shorten urls (see my bit.ly post for more information on url shortening), add photos, and add videos to your posts. It is a clean program that allows you to see your tweets in more of a IM type fashion, rather than just a timeline. Its appearance looks like it was almost built by Apple. This program is also available for the iPhone.

Things I Like

• Clean interface. Functionalities allow you to do everything you want with Twitter. 
• Allows you to see your @ replies, messages, and to search. That's it, nothing else clutters the program. 
• You can add multiple Twitter accounts. 
• By double clicking a user's image, it shows you all the person's tweets. By double clicking a user's tweet it shows you the conversation surrounding that tweet. 

Things I Don't Like

• When I want to send a new Tweet, instead of just giving me a small text box at the bottom of the program, it gives me a pop-up window. While this isn't a huge complaint, it might be cleaner to just have the entry part be part of the main window. 
• As far as functionality goes, it offers pretty much the same use as many other clients out there.

Using the System

You can download a free version from their website, or pay 20 dollars for a copy that doesn't have ads appear. This seems a bit steep for a twitter client, considering how many options there are. So if you don't mind seeing an ad every now and again, going with their free version (which you can use as long as you like) is not a bad route at all.

You don't have to create an account on their website in order to download Tweetie, which is awesome. You just download the program, start it up, it asks you for your twitter name and password, and voila you are using the program. This is a very streamlined process and makes the time required to get the program up and running very small.

The things that you should have in a Twitter client (no matter what platform you use) include timeline, @ replies, messages, and search. It should be able to shorten urls, include photos, and include videos. Most importantly, it should make these things easy to do.

Overall Tweetie stands at the forefront of twitter clients. It does what it needs to and does it well.

**My preferred client for my android phone is Seesmic. If you have one you prefer add it in the comments so people can see what are good clients to try using.