Which Twitter App?Reviews and Recommendations for Twitter Apps

TweetDeck is an Adobe AIR Twitter app for power users. Using a column layout, TweetDeck allows a user to set up many feeds at once. Some are specialized to Twitter, such as your friends, @ mentions, direct messages and so forth. But the real power lies in their numerous advanced search features, which filter the public timeline any way you desire:

• Columns - the column interface allows you to track as many searches as you want simultaneously.
• Groups - pick any number of users you follow and put them in their own column. Examples: co-workers, celebrities
• Hashtags - search for the tags you want to find, or use the TwitScoop tag cloud included in TweetDeck, which displays the most popular tags in each column you have open.
• Flexible - Search for anything you want, including @users, #hashtags, $StockTwits, and "specific phrases in quotes"
• Advanced Search - Add logical operators (AND, OR) to narrow your search. Examples: drupal OR d6, design AND freelance
• Filter any Column - TweetDeck lets you further refine any column using filters within a search, blocking out or filtering by specific words, users, or hashtags. You can also filter by timestamp, hiding tweets after a certain number of hours. Version 0.26.4 even lets you filter by the Twitter app each person uses.

The power of TweetDeck search combined with the column interface makes this a perfect twitter client for people maintaining brand or PR efforts for a company, or trying to keep up to date on specific current events.

Fully Loaded Feature Set

As of version 0.26.4 this Twitter app supports multiple twitter accounts as well as Facebook status updates. It provides the option to create a TweetDeck account and sync ALL of your TweetDeck information to the cloud. So you can set your columns up once, and take them everywhere with a single login, even onto your iPhone. And don't forget about all the features you need to post and share content on Twitter easily, including:

• Picture Sharing - choose between TwitPic, yFrog
• URL shortening with many options available: bit.ly, digg, is.gd, tr.im, and twurl
• Many other features including spell check, translation via Google, and TweetShrinking, which cn shrtn yr tweets lk ths by removing vowels.

Since it heavily queries Twitter when being used to its fullest, the developers included a granular API-meter so you can adjust exactly how much Twitter traffic is used by your copy of TweetDeck. Those controls are divided between regular tweets, @mentions, and direct messages. For best performance, restart TweetDeck daily. It can bring a slower machine to a halt!! You can follow the development team @tweetdeck, or use the support feature within the application.