In search of the best Twitter client!

I've been using Twitter for quite sometime now (seven months to be precise). But, my active tweeting started once I bought a Nokia 5800 in Singapore. I began tweeting through the mobile web application that Twitter provided, but was really not happy with the options that were provided on the mobile web app. So, I ventured into the Ovi Store that Nokia provides and found out my first Twitter app for mobile, Tweet60. But, with the time taken to tweet and read tweets, sadly, I had to ditch this app!!! I found fring, probably one of the best IM apps available for mobile phones. And, as the world is behind Twitter and Facebook, fring too offers a Twitter app. The sad point with that was, well, you cannot retweet :( but you can reply to a tweet! This seemed a big problem for me as I believe that retweeting is one of the essential feature of the big family called Twitter!! I eventually settled down with Tweet60 on my mobile phone as it offered the features but not the speed of reading. But, my quest for the best twitter client on the web/desktop never seems to come to an end. I seem to discover at least 2 twitter apps everyday!!

Some of the twitter clients for desktop that I have used are:

• TweetDeck
• Digsby
• Trillian
• Twhirl
• TwitterExplorer (Windows gadget)
• Google Desktop Twitter App

The list of twitter apps that I've used on the web are:

• Brizzly
• Ping.fm
• iGoogle Gadget
• Twitter Web (of course!)
• Tweet3
• TweetFox

The list of twitter apps that I've used on my mobile phone are:

• Fring
• Tweet60
• Mobile Web

I did find quite a number of apps for my phone but I have not yet tried them!! I would try them soon and list is

• Dabr
• Slandr
• Gravity
• Twittix

Wow, am really astonished to even read out this list of apps for Twitter. Well, so much of work is being done for a mere 140 character space micro-blogging idea. Terriffic. The verdict:  I found Brizzly really useful, with its interface and the way it allows creation of lists. For my mobile, I still use the good old mobile web as I've not yet tested out the new apps I discovered!! I think I will download all the new apps I read about and test them out and post the results later. For the desktop app, the Windows gadget TwitterExplorer was quite useful. It did not pester me with unwanted IM's that Digsby or Trillian offered. Am sure there would be better Twitter clients that are computationally less demanding while offering a great solution to Tweeting!!! Happy Tweeting...

This was the first presentation that I had done at NTU working as a team. As you can see from the photo, we made a presentation on Linguistic Fuzzy neural Network Models as a part of our Computational Intelligence course! It was interesting to read so many papers and work with a mixed team. Hoping to do more such presentations in the near future..!!