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How to get Twitter on your desktop and mobile

I’m preparing for my Twitter for Business, eMarketeers course on Wednesday (11 December 2009) and have put together a list of desktop and mobile applications – below. If you have any additions, experiences or recommendations I’d love to hear, as not all uses, phones or desktops are the same.

Desktop applications
All suitable for PCs and Macs. * indicates that it’s also available as a mobile version
*Hootsuite – http://hootsuite.com/ (via @simonianson)
*Mixero – http://www.mixero.com/
*Seesmic – http://seesmic.com/seesmic_desktop/
*Tweetdeck – http://www.tweetdeck.com Latest version (0.32.1) includes list management.

Twhirl – http://www.twhirl.org/
*Twibble – http://www.twibble.de/twibble-desktop/ (also has a mobile version)
Twitterific – http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific

Tweetie (MAC ONLY) – http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-mac/ Highly recommended by Mac/twitter users, @simonianson and @simonjjones.

Web clients – for when Twitter.com isn’t enough
Brizzly – http://brizzly.com/#twitter/-/home Operates very much like a desktop application
Seesmic – http://seesmic.com/app/

Mobile sites – using your mobile phone browser
Official Twitter mobile page – http://m.twitter.com
Dabr, an open course, mobile site for using Twitter – http://www.dabr.co.uk (highly recommended, works on most web enabled phones with a browser pre-installed)

Mobile applications – for downloading, all require a ‘smart’ phone
Echofon – http://echofon.com
Mixero (iPhone) – http://www.mixero.com/
Gravity (Nokia S60) – http://mobileways.de/products/gravity/
Tweetie (iPhone) – http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-iphone/
Tweetdeck (iPhone) http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/iphone/
Twitterberry (BB) http://www.orangatame.com/products/twitterberry
Seesmic (BB + Android) http://seesmic.com/seesmic_mobile/
Swift (Android) – http://www.swift-app.com/ (via @pubstrat)
Twitterfon (Windows) http://twitterfon.net/
Twibble (Nokia, BB, SonyEricsson) http://www.twibble.de/twibble-api/
Twitdroid (Android) – http://twidroid.com/ (via @pubstrat)
Ubertwitter (BB) – http://www.ubertwitter.com/ (via @helenduffett)

One Comment Post a comment
  1. For the web clients list, I guess twitter.com should be there too.
    Also, HootSuite (http://hootsuite.com/) is another web option worth to be listed.

    Maybe another list should consider ‘enhanced’ posting options, as pictures for instance. In this category probably the two most popular services (web based) are Twitpic (http://twitpic.com/) and yfrog (http://www.yfrog.com/); for video 12seconds (http://12seconds.tv/)

    7 December, 2009

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