Tweaking Tweets
Twitter has become all the rage with even late-night comics like Jon Stewart parodying it. With this immense popularity comes a wide variety of third-party clients. Two of my favorites are TweetDeck and Twhirl.
I’ve been thinking a bit about the user interface of each of these. TweetDeck has been my go-to of late with its nifty 3-column layout, and sorting and searching options. Twhirl does a lot of great things too, but one feature I like better than TweetDeck is the nofification feature because it displays the name of the tweet-er and the tweet, whereas TweetDeck just shows a generic notification message. With Twhirl, I can know right away who the tweet is from and what it’s about just by quickly glancing at the notification window and this makes it much easier to prioritize and multi-task.