Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Seesmic wins (at least on my laptop)

Seesmic is rocking on my laptop now prompting removal of the original king of twitter clients. I had TweetDeck on there and understand those twitter sites that say TweetDeck has high share of users, even though the twitter web client has the biggest share.

Seesmic does this:
  • Keeps your place in the Home pane. I like to review tweets from a particular tweeter sometimes by clicking their name or some other kind of navigation only really possible with a twitter client. When I return Home, Seemic knows exactly where I was before.
  • Groups your contacts in a thematic way, termed User Lists for various reasons including that you may have more than just friends you are organizing, such as news feeds and less "social" items.
  • The leftmost timeline pane changes depending on what you have selecting in the left vertical menu. Then detaching those timelines is where the fun really begins.
  • It is one of those few programs that remind me of Mac OX app such as iTunes running on a PC, but seems to suit more.
Go get it, install and use for 10 days. Then tweet me at @lawmanjapan and tell me that I am wrong.