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Termtter

Saleh Alzaid — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:27:51 +0000

Termtter is a terminal based Twitter client written in Ruby language. You can post tweets, send direct messages, view followers, and more using shell commands! A geeky type of apps.. Also Termtter supports plugins to extend the functionality of the app.

Termtter can run in Linux and MacOS. For Windows users, there’s Quitter, a command line Twitter app.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Shell based app	For geeks… only!
Supports plugins	No direct ability to change the logged in Twitter account (you have to change a config file to do that!)
Has many features

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Swift

Saleh Alzaid — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:11:23 +0000

Swift is a simple Twitter app for Android phones. Swift is free and has number of features like photo and video uploading. Swift is still under development and new features are added in every release. You keep updated with latest features via the Swift Goolge Group.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Simple easy to use interface	Still doesn’t have that much of sophisticated features (e.g. trends)
Totally free!
Small in size and fast

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Twibble Mobile

Saleh Alzaid — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:25:34 +0000

Twibble Mobile is a Java mobile Twitter app supporting wide range of mobile devices (Nokia, BlackBerry or any Java enabled mobile).

Twibble mobile has many features like uploading pics with TwitPic or any media (pic, text, audio and video!) with Mobypicture service. Also it supports identi.ca/laconi.ca instances. View all features of Twibble Mobile here. Not all these features come with the free version of Twibble Mobile. The full version is for 4.9 Euros.

Twibble was featured on many major websites like TechCrunch, Mashable, and BBC online.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Support wide range of mobile phones	The free version shows only 10 tweets
Has many features (including uploading pics, audios, texts, and videos!)	Not easy to use interface
identi.ca/laconi.ca integration

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AlertThingy

Saleh Alzaid — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:05:25 +0000

AlertThingy is an Adobe Air application that supports Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, RSS feeds, and many more web 2.0 social services. With AlertThingy you will able to control the steam of alerts, tweets, Facebook notifications and others all in one place. And you can divide Twitter users, Facebook friends, customized RSS feeds into groups! Powerful app.

AlertThingy also provides another version dedicated for FriendFeed.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very pretty and simple interface	Doesn’t support Arabic charterers in Mac and Linux (Adobe Air bug)
Provide an easy way to control the streams of tweets, Facebook notifications, RSS feeds and more
Adobe air app supporting Windows, Linux and Mac
You mix Twitter users, Facebook friends and RSS feeds in groups

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Choqok

Saleh Alzaid — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:09:44 +0000

Choqok is a micro-blogging client for Linux K Desktop Environment (KDE). It’s free and open source application supporting Twitter and Identi.ca.

The name “choqok” comes from an ancient Persian word which means Sparrow!

ChoqoK has many features like multiple accounts, supporting right to left (RTL) languages, TwitPic integration, KWallet integration, ability to notify user about new statuses text with KNotification or Libnotify, expanding shortened URLs using Untiny service, and many others.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very simple interface	Can be slow in opening when there are many tweets
Supports Twitter and Identi.ca	Has some bugs because of the re programming of the new version
Integrates with Linux environment sub systems (like KWallet and KNotification)
Free and open source application
Supports right to left languages
Displays emotions as images

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Twikini

Saleh Alzaid — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:29:17 +0000

Twikini is a powerful Twitter client for Windows Mobile phones.

Twikini is written in native C++ programming language which makes it a fast app. It supports uploading pictures using TwitPic and different URL shortening services. One cool feature is integration with Windows Media Player by tweeting the song you are listening to plus the artist name.

Bad that Twikini is free for 14 days only as tria, or you can buy it for $4.95 only.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very pretty interface	Free for 14 days trial
Windows Media Player integration
Fast application
Can update Twitter location (requires GPS device)

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TinyTwitter

Saleh Alzaid — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:03:51 +0000

TinyTwitter is a simple Twitter client for any Java enabled phones (like Nokia, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile phones, Pocket PCs, SmartPhones, Motorola, LG, and others). Tiny Twitter doesn’t have much features like other mobile Twitter client. It’s minimal client and free as well. Check all features here.

Review on a Windows Mobile phone:

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very simple interface	Doesn’t support Unicode characters (only English)
Free Twitter app	Doesn’t support multiple accounts
Supports wide range of mobile phones
Supports sending a direct message to multiple people

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Pocketwit

Saleh Alzaid — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:01:47 +0000

Pocketwit is a free open-source Twitter client for Windows Mobile devices (PocketPCs and SmartPhones.) with number of functions. The application is open-source under MIT license and built with .NET 2.0 compact platform.

The application has number of notable features like updating your location (requires GPS), grouping your friends, multiple accounts supporting, sharing images using different photo sharing services (TwitPix, Yfrog…), taking and uploading a photo from your mobile camera, and long tweeting using shorttext.com. It supports identi.ca accounts as well.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Has many features	Bad looking user interface
Free and open-source

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SimplyTweet

Saleh Alzaid — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:41:01 +0000

SimplyTweet is an iPhone Twitter app with push notifications and special features. Considered as one of best current Twitter apps for iPhone. One cool feature of the app is the ability to integrate it with HootSuite web Twitter client which is very helpful in managing multiple Twitter accounts.

The app also support pictures and video sharing through many Twitter media sharing apps like TwitPic or yFrog. The app is for $5.00 and available in the App Store here.

The interface is cool and very esy to use. Watch the review:

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Supports push notifications!
Provides many many features
Can integrate with HootSuite
Very simple and beautiful interface

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TwiXtreme

Saleh Alzaid — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:44:33 +0000

TwiXtreme is a free twitter client for Blackberry mobile devices from Xtreme Labs. The application features a colorful, more graphic interface that takes tweeting on the go to the next level. As well as Tweeting, Replying to Tweets, and ReTweeting, other features include:

Displaying your profile as well as others
Showing your Direct Message inbox (though it doesn’t show your sent messages)
Favorites
Followers list (with Avatars)
Following list (with Avatars)
Trends; to show the most common tweets of the day
Search option
Tweets Nearby; that basically shows tweets of other users in your area; this feature however depends on your GPS setting, and that of other tweeters

The application settings allow you to:

Enable notifications while application is running in the background
Automatically display new tweets
Use your tweet as the caption when uploading a picture via TwtPic
Show real names instead of usernames when viewing tweets

All in all, this application is great for those looking for a more interesting and fun interface.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very simple and beautiful interface	Doesn’t show your sent direct messages
Provides special functionality like showing the nearby tweets, uploading pictures and trends	Doesn’t support writing non English characters. It still can display non English tweets
Free application and without ads!
The application lunches quickly