Twitter clients.

[quote name='ViDeOmAnCiNi' post='3880536' date='Sep 10 2011, 10:38 PM']Since I rarely tweet and mostly follow people/organizations for informational purposes, the best lurker client I have found is a Vista/Win7 gadget called Sidechirp. I can stick it on the edge of one of my monitors and it will quietly (I turned off the bogus sounds) show me up to the last 50 tweets from people/organizations that I follow and I can make it a pleasant BLACK color scheme to blend in with my black background. :-)

Just my $0.02 on this topic.

-VM[/quote]
Not that I plan to use it(I use OS X), but does it utilize the live-streaming API?

Twitterrific is what I use. Just like you, I tell myself, all OS X clients always lack something, lol. Just in the end, didn't bother with it. I tweet more mobile lately (Twitterrific on iPod Touch, regular Twitter client on Blackberry).

[quote name='ShadowSonic2' post='3880547' date='Sep 10 2011, 10:45 PM']Twitterrific is what I use. Just like you, I tell myself, all OS X clients always lack something, lol. Just in the end, didn't bother with it. I tweet more mobile lately (Twitterrific on iPod Touch, regular Twitter client on Blackberry).[/quote]
At one point, I was making a Twitter client. But I kinda killed off the idea... Since I didn't have the patience for Objective-C. But one day I'll pick it up again http://cl.ly/9KpG/o

I really like the color scheme of Twitterrific. I like the well integratedness of Twitter for Mac the the customizability of NightOwl. and the Now Playing feature.

So, one day I'll be motivated enough to code it. But meh.

[quote name='iFish' post='3880538' date='Sep 10 2011, 07:40 PM'][quote name='ViDeOmAnCiNi' post='3880536' date='Sep 10 2011, 10:38 PM']Since I rarely tweet and mostly follow people/organizations for informational purposes, the best lurker client I have found is a Vista/Win7 gadget called Sidechirp. I can stick it on the edge of one of my monitors and it will quietly (I turned off the bogus sounds) show me up to the last 50 tweets from people/organizations that I follow and I can make it a pleasant BLACK color scheme to blend in with my black background. :-)

Just my $0.02 on this topic.

-VM[/quote]
Not that I plan to use it(I use OS X), but does it utilize the live-streaming API?
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Not sure. I know that it has to use the twitter API for the U/P like all twitter clients must now. There is not a lot of technical info on the site about the gadget, but I do know that Windows gadgets are mostly written in Java and as CSS' so you can poke around in the code to see what they are doing. Before this latest version of Sidechirp, this was called Twitter Explorer and I used to have to hand edit the gadget's code and graphics to make it fill the entire side of the screen so I could see more tweets at a time. I made strong suggestions to the author that he should increase it's size, # of tweets, etc. He seemed to take the hint in this new version. The gadget site is here: http://bit.ly/pzCSUK

-VM

[quote name='ViDeOmAnCiNi' post='3880555' date='Sep 10 2011, 10:58 PM'][quote name='iFish' post='3880538' date='Sep 10 2011, 07:40 PM'][quote name='ViDeOmAnCiNi' post='3880536' date='Sep 10 2011, 10:38 PM']Since I rarely tweet and mostly follow people/organizations for informational purposes, the best lurker client I have found is a Vista/Win7 gadget called Sidechirp. I can stick it on the edge of one of my monitors and it will quietly (I turned off the bogus sounds) show me up to the last 50 tweets from people/organizations that I follow and I can make it a pleasant BLACK color scheme to blend in with my black background. :-)

Just my $0.02 on this topic.

-VM[/quote]
Not that I plan to use it(I use OS X), but does it utilize the live-streaming API?
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Not sure. I know that it has to use the twitter API for the U/P like all twitter clients must now. There is not a lot of technical info on the site about the gadget, but I do know that Windows gadgets are mostly written in Java and as CSS' so you can poke around in the code to see what they are doing. Before this latest version of Sidechirp, this was called Twitter Explorer and I used to have to hand edit the gadget's code and graphics to make it fill the entire side of the screen so I could see more tweets at a time. I made strong suggestions to the author that he should increase it's size, # of tweets, etc. He seemed to take the hint in this new version. The gadget site is here: http://bit.ly/pzCSUK

-VM
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Oh. It's a Windows Gadget! Heh. A few months ago when I used Windows, and now on my Boot Camp partition, I never used gadgets. I have no clue way really.
Oh well, but the good thing about that would be that it's very lightweight.

[quote name='iFish' post='3880022' date='Sep 10 2011, 08:45 PM']But on Windows, TweetDeck is still better.[/quote]TweetDeck is ugly.
DestroyTwitter > TweetDeck

[quote name='prowler_' post='3881113' date='Sep 11 2011, 10:58 AM'][quote name='iFish' post='3880022' date='Sep 10 2011, 08:45 PM']But on Windows, TweetDeck is still better.[/quote]TweetDeck is ugly.
DestroyTwitter > TweetDeck
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I don't find TweetDeck ugly at all.

[quote name='iFish' post='3880550' date='Sep 10 2011, 10:50 PM'][quote name='ShadowSonic2' post='3880547' date='Sep 10 2011, 10:45 PM']Twitterrific is what I use. Just like you, I tell myself, all OS X clients always lack something, lol. Just in the end, didn't bother with it. I tweet more mobile lately (Twitterrific on iPod Touch, regular Twitter client on Blackberry).[/quote]But I kinda killed off the idea... Since I didn't have the patience
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[quote name='iFish' post='3881114' date='Sep 11 2011, 10:59 AM'][quote name='prowler_' post='3881113' date='Sep 11 2011, 10:58 AM'][quote name='iFish' post='3880022' date='Sep 10 2011, 08:45 PM']But on Windows, TweetDeck is still better.[/quote]TweetDeck is ugly.
DestroyTwitter > TweetDeck
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I don't find TweetDeck ugly at all.
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