Which Twitter App?

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.

Configurable Layout

DestroyTwitter can be a single or multi-column app. When in single column mode, switching tabs makes each canvas glide in and out of view fluidly. Same for the tweet box, which slides up out of nowhere when you open it. You can disable the transitions if you want to make DestroyTwitter even leaner. Multi-column mode is turned on by checking "wider workspace" in the preferences, which is three columns wide. No more, no less.

Besides the column layout, DestroyTwitter allows for many other options, such as an "always in front" option, if you want it to constantly float above other apps you have running. You can download color schemes off of the website, and it also provides a tool for creating new themes.

Wide Range of Features

• Many URL shorteners, including tr.im, is.gd, bit.ly, tinyurl, digg, su.pr, and migre.me.
• Many image hosts, including TweetPhoto, Twitgoo, TwitPic, Posterous, yFrog, Mobypicture, img.ly, and TwitDoc.
• Feeds and groups - friends, @ mentions, direct messages, favorites, and even custom groups. Filters can be applied to the home stream (not to other streams unfortunately). You can also set the number of tweets you want to display (in the home feed only).
• Search and Save - searches can be saved. It does not accept advanced searches, instead it just shows a little red Fail Whale.
• Flexible API metering - DestroyTwitter lets you limit the rate of API calls by each type: home, replies/mentions, search, and direct messages.

Support and Development

This twitter app is constantly updated with new features and fixes for even small bugs. The author really cares about the quality of this app and it shows. You can follow the author @destroytwitter.

Final Verdict

Overall this app is great for experienced users and more technical minded people who appreciate customization. DestroyTwitter gets 5/5 stars for delivering a compact, lightweight yet fully loaded twitter client.