Twitter is a great little application to help you connect and stay connected with family, friends, and clients. It's so popular, in fact, that many 3rd parties have developed additional applications to make Twitter easier and more convenient to use and integrate with the rest of your social networking activities.
One of these tools is twhirl. It's a free software desktop client that runs on both Windowns and Macs. Twhirl allows you to do everything you would typically do in Twitter without opening your Web browser and logging in. So, you can post short updates (abiding by the 140 character limit, of course), follow your friends' tweets, read replies, and answer other tweeters with direct replies.
In addition, Twhirl informs you of new tweets and allows you to search Twitter Search and TweetScan, look up others' profiles, automatically find tweets that include your @username, post images to TwitPic, and cross-post to Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and other social networking apps via Ping.fm. It even allows you to share Seesmic videos through Twitter. And more!
So, if you're hoping to get more out of Twitter, you should try twhirl, especially if you have several Twitter accounts to manage. It conveniently brings Twitter to your desktop using a small window, and you can configure it to work best with your needs.
We plan to post about more Twitter apps that will help you maximize the potential of your Twitter account. What are your favorites? Let us know so we can check them out!
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