I noticed a buddy of mine was using a new Twitter application called TweetDeck. From their site:
TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in public beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.
I’ve installed the BETA, and so far it’s really slick. Much better than Twidget which I have been using on my MacBook Pro.
Lemme give it a try – FoxNews has a pretty cool Adobe Air application that streams both TV and Radio and until Adobe updated to 1.5 it was pretty buggy and a processor hog.
I have not had any issues with TweetDeck hogging my laptop, but it does die frome time to time and has to be relaunched.
Also, if you minimize it, you have to explicitly click the mini version in the doc and not just the icon in order to have it maximize again. Not horrible but about a 5 out of 10 on the Annoys the Hell Out of Me Scale.
Tom – FYI, I switched to Twhirl if you’re interested. Tweetdeck kept crashing on me every 30 to 45 minutes.
I’m using tweetdeck for Mac also and like it lots. Try – thanks for the tip on how to recall TweetDeck post-minimize, I kept quitting and restarting it in aggravation. I’d rank that problem as a 9 our of 10 on the AtHOoM scale.
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tweetdeck doesn’t support growl (mainly an adobe air limitation but still). i use growl and the prowl iphone app to push direct message and mentioned notifications to my iphone. therefore i’m sticking with tweetie.
@steve – good point about growl support. I love growl, but the notifications popup from Tweetdeck gets ANNOYING. I just turned them off for good this morning.