Macs

These Twitter apps run on Apple desktop or laptop computers, such as iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac mini.

Apple computers all run but they can run other platforms such as or which are included in this list.

Tvider

Tvider is single-task web-based Twitter app for tweeting videos, images, and audio/voice from mobile devices or webcams. Tvider is available on all major mobile platforms including iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Symbian, Java and BREW. For this review we tested the web app in OS X and Windows.

Tweetree

Tweetree is an alternative to the web interface at Twitter.com featuring expanded URLs and threaded conversations. Aside from those features, it sports a web interface whose primary difference from twitter.com is skin deep.

Tweetree handles all of the common Twitter streams & features like home, @ mentions, direct messages, and favorites. It has basic search and lets you save your common searches. It has a handy button for retweeting as well.

Readtwit

Readtwit is a web service that finds links in your Twitter stream and formats them as an RSS feed. You may be saying "hold on here, I can get an RSS feed of my tweets from Twitter.com" but Readtwit has some goodies that make it a worthwhile service.

RSS feed of Links

First of all, it only loads tweets with links in them. Tweets with no links will get skipped, so if you're not a fan of chatty banter, this will appeal to you.

GeoChirp

GeoChirp lets you keep track of people tweeting in any local region. This mashup was created by combining Google Maps and Twitter.

pic.im

pic.im is an image uploading service offering integration with tr.im and Nambu. All three are part of the Nambu Network, and as a result play nice together.

Multiple Apps Help each Other

You can download the pic.im app to upload pictures on your iPhone. You can just as easily share images from your desktop using Nambu. Both show you some basic statistics about the photos in your pic.im account.

Nomee

Nomee collects many social networks, allowing you to focus on following people instead of websites. It tracks a huge number of social networks. Nomee does not cater to any one social network extensively, including Twitter. Still, it seemed appropriate to write up its actual tweeting abilities for those curious about using this social dashboard.

Nambu

Nambu is a feature-rich Twitter app for Mac OS X that supports many social networks. It offers plenty of configuration options but has simple defaults for beginners. It also has excellent integration with its sister services, tr.im and pic.im

DestroyTwitter

DestroyTwitter is a full-featured yet lightweight Adobe AIR twitter app. While many other AIR apps are guilty of being on the pudgy and/or sluggish side, DestroyTwitter is refreshingly responsive. Upon load it starts at about 40MB and after using it for a bit, searching, and loading a couple other columns it only climbed to 61MB. Very good for an AIR app!

Even though the memory footprint is light, it doesn't skimp on features. The app is maintained by Jonnie Hallman, an Experience Designer at Adobe, so that may have something to do with it.

Twalala

Twalala is a simple web application with some stream filtering so you can control what you see, and what you don't want to see. If their name confuses you, think of a kid sticking his fingers in his ears and saying "lalala!" to block out what someone else is saying. From their website:

Get ready to take control of your twitterstream. twalala is a client for Twitter that allows you to control what you see, and more importantly, what you don't see in your twitterstream...
Finally, Twitter with a mute button.

Tweetie (for Mac)

Tweetie is a gorgeous, full-featured desktop Twitter client for Macintosh. atebits is the company behind Tweetie, already known for the fantastic iPhone version of Tweetie. Notable features include:

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