Twitter has become a ubiquitous technology on the Internet providing a place for friends to keep in touch, businesses to connect with customers and people with shared interests to exchange ideas. Indeed it has been instrumental in helping to organize several political revolutions and near revolutions in the past several years. As a relatively new user of Twitter, there’s one thing I have to say about Twitter, Too-Much-Information! You can get way too much information on Twitter to the point it is unusable if you are not using the proper tools.
A Twitter client can be useful in helping to filter the constant Twitter information stream. The Mac App Store has released several Twitter clients for the Apple Macintosh that are quite good at allowing one to manage multiple Twitter accounts and filter information down to a usable level.
Here is a list of some of the best Twitter clients available for this platform. Check back for a future posting addressing the best clients for the iPhone and iPad and other Twitter capable platforms.
Twitter
Twitter, Inc. has released its own Twitter client on the Mac App Store. This client is one of my personal favorites which I use all the time. It allows you to easily manage multiple Twitter accounts and it provides a clean and simple interface to allow you to review @mentions and direct messages. I’ve found this client to be extremely stable and reliable. And it’s free!
For more information view the App on the Mac App Store.
Echofon
[From the Mac App Store]
Echofon for Mac is the minimal yet powerful Twitter app that syncs unread Tweets with your iPhone.
The Echofon interface was carefully designed to be comfortably left open all day, it stays out of the way when necessary and expands to support all the advanced features you need, when you need them.
Unread tweets stay in sync with your iPhone. If you read tweets on your Mac, and later open up Echofon on your iPhone, you can pick up right where you left off. Never again will you read the same tweet twice!
Easily attach photos to your tweets with drag and drop. You can also attach screen captures, current iTunes song, or current page in Safari. Echofon uses handy indicators to show which tweets have photos, videos, location, conversations etc.
Echofon has a unique drawer interface that is used for supplementary tasks such as viewing a user’s profile, timeline, favorites, followers etc. It is also used for people search. This helps you keep focus on the main timeline while pulling up other information as needed.
Use all of your Twitter accounts in Echofon, account switching is easy and you’ll see a subtle notification for mentions and messages you recieve in background accounts.
Full search support including trends with explanations, saved search and people search.
Twitterrific for Twitter
[From the Mac App Store]
Twitterrific is the friendly Twitter client that’s beautiful to look at and incredibly intuitive for new users, yet peppered with deep features for advanced tweeters. Effortlessly read and compose tweets, view multiple accounts, search Twitter.com, filter message types and much more. If you’re already familiar with the award-winning Twitterrific for iPhone or iPad, then you’ll be right at home on the Mac.
Kiwi
[From the Mac App Store]
Kiwi is the customizable Twitter client for Mac OS X. It has tabbed windows for multi-account viewing, rules for filtering, and 9 great themes to suit any style.
Customizable
Kiwi comes with 9 great themes: some simple and some wild. Plus you can download more at http://kiwithemes.com , and even make your own!Flexible
Kiwi’s tabbed window let you choose one merged timeline, or a whole screen full of accounts and searches. No matter how you like to use Twitter, Kiwi can work with you.Powerful
Kiwi has great power-user features: filter rules to screen out unwanted tweets, account groups to keep things organized, and saved searches to keep tabs on what’s important to you.
Hibari for Twitter
[From the Mac App Store]
Hibari is an elegant, minimalist Twitter client that makes your timeline as useful as possible by blocking annoyances and revealing gems. Easily filter out automated checkin tweets, hashtag memes, or TV/movie spoilers. Temporarily mute users who are tweeting too much. Monitor important saved search results by displaying them directly in your home timeline.
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