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04.21.09 Stay On Top Of The Latest Twitter Apps  By
Neville Hobson
For day-to-day interacting with Twitter, you can't beat a good third-party app in my experience. As to which is the best one, that's largely a matter of subjective opinion although some popularity measurement is good, too. My favourite? TweetDeck followed closely by Seesmic Desktop which I'm trying out. Those are what I use on the desktop and the laptop. I have other favourites for mobile devices. 
But if you look around, you'll see that there are literally hundreds of applications you can use to interact with Twitter, nearly all for free. Here's as good a popularity measure as any - the top 20 Twitter clients (third-party apps) as measured by numbers of users by Twitstat. The numbers update daily. I've taken the top 20 you see above from Twitstat's larger total (some 224 different Twitter clients, says Twitstat) from which you can note some interesting aspects.
First, the 'app' out front by a large margin is the web, ie, direct access to twitter.com with a desktop (or laptop) web browser, at 26.61% of users according to Twitstat. In second place is TweetDeck with 11.22% of users. Twhirl (the still-active predecessor to Seesmic Desktop) is fifth with 3.69%. Seesmic Desktop just makes it into this list at number 20 with 0.78%.  While TweetDeck is the current leading desktop app, I reckon Seesmic Desktop will soon come knocking on its door especially as that app continues developing to add new features and functionality and as Twhirl presumably gets less developer attention. See what Seesmic founder and CEO Loic Le Meur has to say. But doesn't that view assume TweetDeck does nothing more? I guess it does, which of course I just don't see happening especially as it's widely known that developer Iain Dodsworth - who secured venture funding in January - is developing a Pro version, aimed at the business user with additional features for which you'd pay. And I've not even mentioned how both apps also integrate with others services such as Facebook, 12seconds.tv, seesmic video, and more. Continue reading this article. About the Author: Neville Hobson is the author of the popular NevilleHobson.com blog which focuses on business communication and technology. Neville is a UK-based communicator, blogger and podcaster. He helps companies use effective communication to achieve their business goals. Visit Neville Hobson's blog: NevilleHobson.com. |
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