Even Twhirl is being a resource monster - andy brudtkuhl

All your RAM is belong to TweetDeck - Louis Gray

the price you pay to use Adobe software - Bill

A friend of mine started using DestroyTwitter instead, and likes it a lot. http://destroytwitter.com It's no TweetDeck at this point, but a number of features--including groups--are apparently in the works. I like it and am using it full-time now instead of TD (anxiously awaiting groups...). Does not have laconi.ca/identi.ca support (yet?). Developer is responsive, seems smart, app seems well written and is actively under development. - abacab

It's because of my dislike of AIR that I've been thinking about writing a desktop client for Twitter. It would essentially be a rip-off of TweetDeck. Mac-only of course. - Akiva

I meant to add that the resources footprint is ridiculously smaller than TD, despite still being AIR-based. That may change, but the difference is night/day, and reason enough to change from TD for me, for now. - abacab

Beyond just resource mismanagement, I just don't like AIR-styled UIs. - Akiva

What's the point of AIR, exactly. To keep things uniform across platforms? You still have to hope that Adobe supports your OS, right? - Shawn Farner

I realized this not long after installing. As a result, I have moved over to a web-based app called peoplebrowsr.com. Give it a try! It has many of the same features a a few more that I think you'll like. - Damond Nollan

@Steven I don't suggest that you accept "developer lackadaisical coding," hence the reason to stop supporting it. I like good apps just like the next guy, but another issue that I had with it was the lack of mobility. As I move from one computer to another, there is little I could take with me. I found that I had to reset my user preferences on each computer. With a web-based app, I don't have too. If you like TweetDeck or Twhirl, by all means keep using it, but as an alternative... - Damond Nollan

The solution is .NET, thanks to the Mono project. It's no slouch in the resources department itself, but it never goes to the extremes that AIR does, so long as you use WinForms or Gtk#. And the same executable! can be used on Windows, Linux, or OSX, just like that. - Chris Charabaruk

Do apps have native interfaces when using Mono or do they all look like Windows apps? - Akiva

I wonder if it's that much of a hog on my Macbook - andy brudtkuhl

@chris - yes i've thought about building a twitter app with winforms but probably not worth the effort... plus I hate developing WinForms - andy brudtkuhl

@andy Yeah, WinForms isn't fun to work with, but it's certainly much more efficient, at least memory-wise, than dealing with WPF. As well, WPF doesn't work on Mono, and Gtk# doesn't come by default with Microsoft.NET. It's a lowest common denominator, though, which is enough reason for most people to use it for anything that exists on more than just Windows. - Chris Charabaruk

@Akiva Mono's implementation of WinForms makes applications continue to look like they were run on Windows. However, the window frame (title bar, icon, min/max/close, etc) is platform-specific, so it'll look appropriate for each platform. - Chris Charabaruk

@Josh - apparently it's a problem with Adobe AIR (correct me if im wrong). I had to kill the process to return my computer to normal - andy brudtkuhl

Facinating insight josh. It wouldn't be an apples to apples comparison even for a complete re-write from the API up. But would be a mighty intesting data point. - Roberto Bonini

We're still a while away from Silverlight's promise of cross-platform applications. Moonlight doesn't yet support Silverlight 2.0 applications, and is still pretty untested. - Chris Charabaruk

right below the Tweetdeck line in @andy's screenshot above is Twhirl, also an AIR app...yet it's consuming less than 25% of memory in comparison. don't you think that suggests the problem is Tweetdeck, and not AIR, per se? - .LAG liked that

TweetDeck leaks memory over time. Eventually, if left on, it crashes my computer. It's TweetDeck, not AIR. - Robert Scoble

I run Twhirl all day, on WinXP, no problems - .LAG liked that

wow...i'm gonna have to look at that task monitor closer... - .LAG liked that

Every AIR app I've run on my computer has leaked like a sinking ship, not just TweetDeck. I'm prone to believe its a framework problem, although I won't absolve TweetDeck itself of all blame. - Chris Charabaruk

@Chris... when you say my computer, are you a PC or a Mac? - .LAG liked that

DestroyTwitter is very cool now .. I use it all the time and I love that they supported themes recently =) FTW - Hisham Sadek هشام

Will look into DestroyTwitter ...I like Twhirl because it can also access Identi.ca, FF, and Seesmic, all of which I frequent. - .LAG liked that

@Matthew...that's true. FF has "real time" and search...it's all right here. - .LAG liked that

@Matthew: I totaly agree with that. People also nag me for using Twhirl and saying Thwirl sucks. Maybe when they see that FF can do everything that TweetDeck can they will understand why I use Twhirl - Patrick from twhirl

yeah, tweetdeck has been slowing my computer down big time lately - Robert DeBord

Twhirl can be like that at times, if you have more than one account open. Right now I have my twitter, my rss account on twitter, my friendfeed and my rss account open on twhirl and I'm not lagging or anything. So Twhirl does a decent job with memory. - Patrick from twhirl

@LAG PC, WinVista. - Chris Charabaruk

1G ram...serious - ybs

@Chris... thanks. So, basically, all the complains about Tweetdeck, Twhirl, and AIR are coming from Windows users. hmm.... - .LAG liked that

Are there any Silverlight 3-based twitter clients? - τorƍue