Comments on: Wanted: A Better Twitter Client

By: francisco lopes

francisco lopes — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:54:13 +0000

yup, seems to be best so far. i find server sync pretty useful too, still i wish it would also sync read/unread entries. :(

By: Mike Masnick

Mike Masnick — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:50:57 +0000

Still with Tweetdeck (which added server syncing, which is useful). Still wish some of the other features were enabled as well.

By: francisco lopes

francisco lopes — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:40:05 +0000

so, what client did you end up with? your list is pretty much what i’m looking for, except that i’d love some keyboard shortcuts too. i’m currently with tweetdeck, but sometimes i get pissed about their MARK AS READ button, which is way too small for my taste.

By: Mike Masnick

Mike Masnick — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:11:19 +0000

Hmm…. not really a Bloglines. The way I interact with RSS and Twitter is actually quite different. RSS is more about going in and seeing what’s going on. Twitter is more about ambient information.

By: mikeho

mikeho — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:00:45 +0000

I think you basically want a Bloglines with custom themes and a way to update statuses… just need an RSS reader that updates more frequently. :P

By: Blaise Alleyne

Blaise Alleyne — Thu, 07 May 2009 04:12:29 +0000

To be honest, I’ve been using Google Reader since November (when SMS updates were cancelled in Canada) to subscribe to some people’s updates and to searches.

It’s pretty awkward, but there aren’t many great free software / GNU/Linux clients. I’ve been using something called Gwibber, which has awesome support for pulling in feeds from Twitter, Identi.ca, Flickr, Facebook, you name it (even a standard RSS feed), and it has built in Ping.fm support. But the interface and features list are still pretty basic.

I’ve been hoping to get some time to jump into the code and work in support for groups and a few other things I’d like to see… but that won’t help much with finding a Windows client with any of these things. Great suggestions though!

By: muzik 4 machines

muzik 4 machines — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:01:43 +0000

agreed totally, especially the memory hog thing
facebook is really nice to have integrated, i’ll add myspace too, and the ability to autopost from an rss feed(podcast) to notify(i’m using friendfeed for that only)

By: Scott Horvath

Scott Horvath — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:28:28 +0000

Mike, this is a great list. Glad you added in the server integration one. That’s a big pet peeve of mine. I also agree that showing items that have appeared since I last logged in (assuming I’ve closed my app and reopened later) should be available.

In addition to that, having a link at the bottom of that tweet list for “show previous 200″ or some other limit option would be a quick way to see what I missed. And with server integration it would cut down on the API calls for those since they could simply be in some XML format on the server. I think about 5 days archive would be enough. Past that and I’ll just search.

I think Seesmic does this, but I’d like to see PIP (picture in picture) for @replies. It’s a minor thing but it’s helpful.

One thing I also would like to see added is sorting. Let me sort my tweets by sender.

Give me an option for showing tweets only contain links.

If a “canvas” approach is provided, and more space is allowed to be given to “All friends” list or @replies, then let me have the option of embedding previews of TwitPic images to the side of each tweet and video stills.

One other nice to have, but not needed, would be a geo-located column. Every tweet is geo-coded. Why not provide an option to tap into that data as a search?

There’s just some additional ideas. Hope something comes of all this.