Comments on: A sneak peek into Mac Twitter Clients.

By: Aidan

Aidan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:53:01 +0000

The best of this lot is probably TweetDeck, but for me it is overkill 90% of the time. The overhead of AIR is particularly annoying. Most of the time I use Twit Menulet (at http://twitmenulet.com), which you didn’t mention. This is a true native client, very lightweight, but with some advanced features. At http://twitmenulet.com

By: Cameron

Cameron — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:57:11 +0000

I’ve used all of these clients and each of them has something about that either feels lacking or something that drives me a bit nuts. I’d like features of each in one native osx app.

By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:17:09 +0000

Twitterrific is nice and all but the only issue is we need to use it in tandem with the twitter homepage as you can’t follow/unfollow people or search twitter.

By: bxt

bxt — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:13:10 +0000

-Tim. You are an obvious windows user and I don’t blame you. When I’m forced on Windows even I use Twhirl because it looks and fits perfectly into the windows environment. But when it comes to the Mac, Twhirl is totally out of place and weird. At least TweetDeck integrates better with the mac platform than twhirl, given that it is an Air application. Mac users tend to care about aesthetics and UIs of an application (which is why most mac apps look kickass compared to windows crap).

For the record, I’m a twitterrific user. Would have liked to use EventBox but I find the floating interface of Twitterrific perfect for my needs. Plus, apart from the few ads it is free!

By: John

John — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:05:19 +0000

Tim, for me, the look and feel of an app is HUGELY important. AIR apps look out of place, I think, on any platform.

I have tried Twhirl, and use it on my Windows XP virtual machine when I really need to tweet from Windows.

The functionality is there, but the aesthetics really aren’t up to standard. Maybe not Twhirl’s fault.

A small example is the version number top left. Why do I need to see that? Is that an AIR thing?

If it helps I think TweetDeck is only marginally better looks-wise.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:57:29 +0000

I find your reasons for disliking twhirl to be rather flaky to say the least.
Perhaps it would be better to base your reporting on functionality, as opposed to whether the air application uses native OS chrome or not…