Twitter is great, but if you’re not using a client that works for you it becomes a major time hog – especially as your list of fellow twitters grows.
In order to sanely manage my life in Twitterville, I have been using Tweetdeck. The only problem is that it’s still at beta version 0.21, and it crashes about around 30 minutes on my MacBook Pro which causes me to spend valuable time relaunching it. The instability sucks the joy right out of the application which is a shame.
I finally give up and have switched to Twhirl. So far this is working much better. It’s stable, and I LOVE the way it shows new tweets briefly when I have it running in the background. It reminds me of Mail.appetizer. That simple feature allows me to be so much more productive because I’m not constantly switching away from what I’m doing to find out what someone just said. Now I can glance and read and be right back in the mix of my current ask.
