February 2, 2010
Getting Persnickety About Twitter Apps
I'm attempting to move as much of my computing to the web as possible. Ever since I started using Chrome (at the strong recommendation of the Architect), web apps feel really natural. Plus, I'm rooting for the Chrome OS in the battle between good and do-no-evil, so I'm throwing my (light) weight behind the cloud.
So far I've moved 90% of my "daily use" apps to the cloud. Of course, I'm still using a native browser (duh) and Skype (which our team now uses exclusively for chat), but I'm also still stuck with iTunes (although I only open it for iPhone app research or to rent a movie that's not on Netflix) . Here's proof: http://goo.gl/6c2K.
So when I decided to get rid of Tweetie for Mac (great native app) a couple weeks ago, I adopted Twitter.com as my replacement. What's impressive is that their own website is pretty powerful. It does everything I need with the exception of multiple accounts. This isn't an especially big deal since I only need to manage my personal Twitter account (@scottmagdalein) and the YouVersion Twitter account (@youversion).
But I think I'm becoming increasingly more persnickety about my Twitter app of choice. So, I asked my fellow Twitter users to help me out. Here are their answers:
I looked at each, but ended up sticking with Brizzly because it's got a fun look, resembles the Twitter.com layout, and still gets the job done efficiently. Of course, I'm pretty tough on my apps and I tend to be fickle, so we'll see how long this one lasts.
(Postscript: All of the apps above are good. I don't think you'll be disappointed with any of them.)
