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Kzalek

Saleh Alzaid — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:49:30 +0000

Kzalek is a decent Adobe Air Twitter client for Arabic users. Adobe Air apps have problems in viewing Arabic fonts in Mac and Linux (as well Flash). Kzalek solves this issue and also provides right to left (RTL) view for Arabic tweets.

What makes Kzalek lovely is it’s simple minimal interface plus the features that are presented in small neat icons. Features like translating tweets to Arabic, expanding shortened URLs using Untiny service, and uploading images to TwitPic.

Kzalek still in beta supporting an Arabic interface only for now. It seems promising in future as global Twitter client in case the English interface is supported. Note that Spaz Adobe Air app also support Arabic encoding in tweets.

Developed by Mustafa Farghaly. More on ArabCrunch.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very easy to use, simple and pretty interface	Doesn’t provide an English interface
Works on Windows, Mac and Linux with full Arabic font support	No option to view your sent direct messages
Automatically right align Arabic tweet
Provides an Arabic translating option for tweets

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TweetMixx

Saleh Alzaid — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:52:06 +0000

TweetMixx is service from the social news website Mixx. It filters your friends tweets by bringing those contain links and join them to similar news provided in Mixx.

You also filter based on topics of your interest by providing interests words, and TweetMixx will bring all tweets of you interest and related news on Mixx.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Uses OAuth for Twitter login	Not clear easy design
	Limited functionality. It could provide more options like in filtering.

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Twiltr

Saleh Alzaid — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:34:15 +0000

Twiltr is an iPhone app for twitter. It’s main goal is to easily filter the tweets stream. You filter based friends or words. It’s available on the App Store for $1.99.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Simple user interface	Doesn’t supports multiple accounts
Options to filter based on friends or words
Reasonable price to its services

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Mixero

Saleh Alzaid — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:48:26 +0000

Mixero is a smart Twitter client helps in controlling the flow and noise of information. Considered as a new generation of Twitter clients, Mixero is an Adobe Air app with full synchronization capabilities and an iPhone app also will be available soon.

I’ll describe the most important features of Mixero here and you can learn more from visiting Mixero site and watching their video.

Groups
Divide people you follow into groups and get tweets of each group separately. Groups are synchronized to any Mixero client you use.

Filters
When it’s difficult to keep tracing the current flow of tweets about one subject, use filters. Write a word in the filter bar and it will filter all current tweets to that word and any coming tweets too. You can use it as a search tool.

Channels
Make a channel that monitors all Twitter tweets about one subject/trend in real time! Channels can monitor all Twitter tweets or tweets from specified users. I created a channel for “twtbase” to keep updated about any twtbase related tweets!

Active List
Active list is the bar in the middle. It’s the place for your favorite/latest Twitter users, groups, or channels.

Context
A context is the configuration and the arrangement of your Mixero client. You can have for example two contexts, one for using Mixero at home and another for work.

UI, Url Shortening, Auto Completion and More
Mixero has very nice UI. I like most the Avatar Mode (see pic below). It lists your Active List avatars to right side of the screen. Mixero also provides choosing what shortening service you use for sharing links. And auto completes a twitter username while writing. There are more nice features I haven’t cover here.

Needs Some Enhancements? Suggestions?
Mixero overall is great! but I wish to see some more features in Mixero like:

Having multiple twitter accounts for one Mixero client (switching between twitter accounts)
More controlling on your tweets (e.g. send this tweet after an amount of time)
Blocking tweets of some users for an amount of time

Suggest any if you feel so. Mixero is currently in beta and registration is available through promocode invitations only. Follow Mixero twitter account and they will send you an invitation with few days. Or..

200 Promocodes For TwtBase Users! Try It Now!
Thanks for Mixero for giving twtbase 200 promocodes for our users! Download Mixero for here and the promocode is: twtbase

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Twitterless

Saleh Alzaid — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:08:52 +0000

Twitterless provides you with awesome stats and tools to better organize your Twitter followers and friends. Some features include graphs of your follower history, groups to organize your friends in, and many other amazing features. All you have to do in order to sign up is follow @tless.

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Filttr

Saleh Alzaid — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:57:16 +0000

Filttr is the brand new way of using Twitter, that makes it manageable, sensible and allows you to focus on what you want to see.

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twitTangle

Saleh Alzaid — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:14:21 +0000

twitTangle is a free service that helps you untangle the mess of having too many friends on twitter. We allow you to rate and tag your friends and then filter your time line to help you easily find the tweets that are most important to you!