For the past week or so, I’ve been using Tweetie to use Twitter.
Tweetie is a desktop application for Mac, as well as a popular Twitter application on the iPhone. Tweetie’s strengths are simplicity, a clean look and feel, and the ability to easy manage multiple Twitter accounts.
For all of Tweetie’s user-friendliness, it has a few shortcomings that give it less appeal than other desktop applications such as Tweetdeck (the market leader) and Seesmic.
In some sense, Tweetie’s biggest weakness is its interface is too light. While there are icons for your live stream, replies, direct messages and searches, keyboard shortcuts or file management tools have to used to do simple things such as write a new message or a direct message.
If Tweetie had to make some improvements, it would be great to see an icon for a new message and a direct message. (Update: My mistake, there is an icon to write a new message on the lower left-hand corner but it’s fairly small, and located away from the major icons.)
Tweetie is $19.95 for a registered version. There’s an unregistered version that is ad-supported.
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There is a new message button, right in the bottom left-hand corner of the window. From there you can use normal Twitter syntax "d username …" to send a message. Or you can right-click/ctrl-click on a tweet or avatar.
My biggest complaint is that after finishing a message I can't just hit enter to post it – something I've become used to with Tweetdeck. Tweetie's fine and all, but I haven't seen anything there that would make me drop everything and use it (especially for $20).