Tweeting On The Next Level of AWESOMENESS!

I was rather twitter-happy today. Not because it was Friday, but because I was using this sweet new desktop app for tweeting called Twhirl.

What is twhirl?

twhirl is a desktop twitter client, based on the Adobe AIR platform.

Some of twhirl’s features:
• runs on both Windows (2000/XP/Vista) and Mac OSX
• connects to multiple Twitter accounts
• notifications on new tweets
• shorten long URLs (using snurl or is.gd)
• cross-post updates to Pownce and Jaiku
• post images to TwitPic
• search tweets (using TweetScan or terraminds)
• timeline filtering
• localized to English, German, Italian and Spanish
• color schemes
• automatically check for new versions

There are a lot more things twhirl can do to improve your twitter experience, and it offers various configuration options to adapt to your personal needs.

I no longer have to refresh my Twitter page, or have it using up a tab in FFOX. Twhirl auto-updates and there’s a notification sound you can turn on or off. I may have to turn it OFF so that I don’t get annoyed with the constant update of some of my friends’ Xbox LIVE alerts. I also don’t have to jump back and forth from TinyURL since Twhirl’s built in URL shortener works just as good. There are a plethora of color schemes too in case you don’t like the default one (pictured above). I found the slick “Black Magic” color scheme goes well with my current desktop theme!

Thanks to Warren Ellis for leading me to this awesome desktop app. I follow him on twitter like a closet fanboy and noticed the “via twhirl” tag on his last tweet and clicked on it. See old people are still good for something! LOL j/k Warren, don’t kill me.

~ LoneWolf