Thursday, February 17, 2011

9 Best Twitter Desktop Apps for Mac

The popularity of Twitter has increased tremendously in past few years. As a result a lot of Twitter Desktop applications are available to the users for download these days. These applications allow you to receive and post Tweets from your desktop without visiting your Twitter.com page. To reduce your burden of finding the appropriate app for you from such a big pool of apps, we have compiled a list of Best Twitter Desktop apps available in the market. Earlier I had compiled a list of 20 Best Twitter Desktop Apps for Windows. Today I give you 9 Best Twitter Apps for Mac.

1. EventBox

This just-for-Mac app is a favorite of many because it supports Twitter, Facebook, Flickr integration, feed reading with Google Reader and internet trend watching with Reddit and Digg . Keyboard shortcuts, hotkeys, Instapaper integration, and photo uploads to Flickr and Facebook make EventBox pretty nifty. It’s also got a very slick interface with a navigation menu on the left-hand side.

2. Mac Lounge

This app is incredibly appealing for its dead simple, single column interface and respectable feature set. We, of course, love the multiple account support, but also appreciate saved searches, quick access to view followers and following, and tweet options to link to tweet, copy tweet, or copy tweet URL. There’s also an accompanying iPhone app, which syncs with the desktop version and greatly improves the app’s relevance.

3. Nambu

This really sophisticated Mac app should be more than enough for any and all of your Twitter needs. You’ve got access to your followers and friends, custom groups, search (integrated with FriendFeed and One Riot), trends, tr.im and pic.im integration, multiple accounts, Ping .fm integration, filters, and three view options for a one or many column view of tweets.

4. Sideline:

Sideline is just a search and trending topic app from Yahoo, but it does a darn good job at satisfying those specific needs. You can view current Twitter trends, select to see the three latest tweets or pop out as its own saved search, and create custom search groups as tabs.
5. Skimmer:

It’s hard not to love this app. Not only is it beautiful to look at it, but it also tracks your favorite social sites. Skimmer’s certainly not an application for the social media beginner, but power users of Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Blogger, and Twitter, will appreciate the aggregation of content, filtering options, view types, and enhanced content viewing experience.

6. Tweetie

A full-featured Twitter client which is available in free ad supported and ad-free versions.  This Desktop app lets you view not only the tweets but also the entire conversation history leading to that tweet. It provides you with an independent compose windows that stay out of your way until you need them. Tweetie for Mac also has search trends to let you find out the hottest trend in Twitter. Other features include threaded DMs, user details, torn off search, bookmarklet, and preferences.

7. Twibble Desktop

Twibble is a bit of a riddle. It’s not a bad app when it comes to feature set, but it’s also not the most intuitive. You can manage multiple accounts, but all tweets are merged together in one stream. You can reply, DM, fav, RT, and copy tweets, but you’ll have to hover over the tweet to even know those behaviors are possible. You can also use keyboard shortcuts, filter your tweets for keywords, or conduct searches that open up in new windows, but Twibble just doesn’t seem to flow as easily as we’d like it to.

8. Twitterific

Lets you both read and publish posts or “tweets”  using a clean and concise  user interface designed to take up a minimum of real estate on your Mac’s desktop. The app shows a scrolling list of  the latest tweets from your friends, or public feeds. Its features include multiple Twitter account support, auto refreshing, inline display of replies and DMs, shows no. of unread tweets, quickly delete tweets, auto show/hide new tweets, single click access to user pages and more.

9. TwitterPod:

This app isn’t known for its sophistication or advanced Twitter functionality. TwitterPod is a basic single column Twitter app with an inline browser and the ability to filter for just tweets with links. Its heyday has long since passed, but original fan boys and girls may still be using this for their twittering.

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