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Desktop Twitter Clients that don’t use Adobe Air

November 25, 2010 By dave

We all know about TweetDeck and its derivatives, right? It seems that right now, the only options that you have for a desktop Twitter client would be TweetDeck and another Adobe Air-based client. Here’s the thing: I kind of hate Adobe Air. Sure, it’s a great way to build amazing desktop applications, but the runtime produces a lot of massively bloated applications. It’s not exactly the sort of product you’d want to add to your portfolio, right? You’d want only the best products for your computer.

– Echofon – back when it was known as Twitterfox, Echofon was actually a pretty solid client. However, when Firefox started to become slow and buggy, I stopped using Echofon. I haven’t found anything as good as this on Chrome.

– Hootsuite – this web-based Twitter client was one I actually used for the longest time. It was pretty nice, but I missed the toaster pop-ups on the bottom of my screen.

– Seesmic Desktop – this is a really great client. It has amazing Ping.FM inegration, and all sorts of plugins lets me use this client for a number of web services. However, it runs on Silverlight, and since Microsoft is pulling the plug on it soon, I don’t know if Seesmic has a future.

Hootsuite’s my favorite web-based Twitter client, while Seesmic Desktop runs a very close second place. I love Seesmic Desktop’s way to expand shortened domain names, by the way. What about you, what do you use? Do you have any suggestions?

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