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Re: Tweetdeck vs Twhirl: It’s a very hard call

Chris — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:13:13 -0000

Support for multiple Twitter accounts cant be very far away in Tweet deck.

As far as archive of your own messages, simply set up a search filter in its own column in TweetDeck for your user name (without the @ incase people forget to add it) then any tweet and reply to your tweet will show up in its own column. I have a similar filter set up for our business URL = instant notification of conversations around your business/brand.

So that really only leaves customising the audio notifications, which is a tiny addition that TweetDeck could (will) easily add.

TweetDeck FTW!

Re: Tweetdeck vs Twhirl: It’s a very hard call

NowVoyager — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:56:22 -0000

As you stated, if you have multiple accounts, Twhirl is the winner. That point should be stressed. Tweetdeck would be a massive mess with multiple accounts in it's current incarnation. I personally love Twhirl's Black Magic theme. Twhirl is compact, it gives me alerts when I need them. It gives me a "fly in" of my most recent tweets, replies and DM'S, then disappears so that I can continue working. I love Twhirl. Just one gyrlz opinion.

Re: Tweetdeck vs Twhirl: It’s a very hard call

Mark Evans — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:21:32 -0000

Great review! I like and use both TweetDeck and Thwirl for different reasons. I posted on it here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/...

Re: Tweetdeck vs Twhirl: It’s a very hard call

Rick Martin — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:05:37 -0000

Twhirl's Seesmic capability makes it more than just a twitter client.
It can do video messages and twitter messages.

Tweetdeck cannot.

If Seesmic ever goes mainstream, as twitter did once it was liberated from the browser, Tweetdeck will be a distant memory.

Re: Tweetdeck vs Twhirl: It’s a very hard call

TweetDeck — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:20:35 -0000

Maybe it's' just my system but TweetDeck seems to take a ton of memory (89mb just after starting up the client). It has a nice UI and all but that's a serious drag for systems with limited resources...

Re: Tweetdeck vs Twhirl: It’s a very hard call

Daniël W. Crompton (webhat) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:51:29 -0000

I just started using both Tweetdeck and Twhirl, and both have advantages and disadvantages. I use the former for its groups and to check my replies. The latter posts to http://ping.fm/ and allows me to follow FriendFeed. Before this I was using TwitterFox which I just found irritating. In my browser I use, TwitBar, PowerTwitter and TwitKit.

I did find that running them both means I hit the API rate limit quite fast, which means to tweaking with the settings. And as I don't check the follow feed in Tweetdeck I set the reply and dm to update more often than the follow feed, and the other way around in Twhirl.

As I said I will probably not choose, I like to use the best features of all the applications mentioned in this comment.

Re: Tweetdeck vs Twhirl: It’s a very hard call

dave powell — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:54:33 -0000

If all I wanted to do is Tweet (or if I followed about 1500 users)...then TweetDeck would be great!

Unfortunately, I do occasionally have to work...and Twhirl affords a much nicer form-factor. It quietly sits in the BG or sits in it's transparent state on my desktop. Much less obtrusive.

Re: Tweetdeck vs Twhirl: It’s a very hard call

matt john — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:00:38 -0000

I'm using TweetDeck and really liking it for personal use. I only have one account and don't follow a TON of people. I really love having twitscoop as well, great feature.

I havn't used Twhirl so I can't comment on it but by the graphic shown the looks are rather similar aren't they?

Re: Tweetdeck vs Twhirl: It’s a very hard call

figstreetstudio — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:59:34 -0000

Thanks, this article saved a lot of time looking at both programs and gave me more time to Tweet about my art.
JKS

Re: Tweetdeck vs Twhirl: It’s a very hard call

PeterS — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:57:56 -0000

It was a tough call, but in the end I settled on the smaller simplicity of Twhirl.

Re: Tweetdeck vs Twhirl: It’s a very hard call

Loic Le Meur — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:34:00 -0000

thank you Duncan for this post. We're working hard.

Re: Tweetdeck vs Twhirl: It’s a very hard call

John — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:43:58 -0000

I prefer Tweetdeck personally, but I am also using Twhirl to work with FriendFeed and Identi.ca. I am new to Twhirl, so just exploring its features.

Re: Tweetdeck vs Twhirl: It’s a very hard call

Boredcollegekid — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:30:47 -0000

Odd I've always found Twhirl to be a good looking client, namely the black magic theme (the default one is terrible though). Even though I got even screen space on the desktop I near liked tweetdeck taking up all the space it does and the single window view comes off as terrible to me.