what is the difference in the two? - Paul

Tweetdeck is a separate app that refreshes automatically and lets you see more. Tweetdeck is in between friendfeed and twitter. - Robert Scoble

http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/ - Dave Winer

Ok, I'm going to try out Tweetdeck also and see how that is!! - Paul

What about people browsr? It does more than tweetdeck, isn't it? It does everything tweetdeck does and also supports friendfeed, digg and a lot more services. - Ramkarthik

peoplebrowsr is down right now. But I like Tweetdeck better for twitter watching. Tweetdeck is a separate app, separate from browser. That makes it more useful to me for a few reasons. - Robert Scoble

I stopped using tweetdeck because of the API thing. It always went down to 0 from 100 in around 45 minutes. I have no idea how to control it. So I use apps like spaz and sometimes people browsr when I'm browsing in safari, which I don't do most of the times. - Ramkarthik

Thanks for the link Robert! Tweetree looks great. - Daynah

Ramkarthik: I turned down the number of times Tweetdeck polls to a lot slower than its default. I never had a problem after that and I get more work done too. - Robert Scoble

Robert: Maybe I should try doing that. I can see it work properly for me since it is working for you in spite of having 45,000+ followers. Thanks :) - Ramkarthik

When Friendfeed standard stopped reloading for me a few months back, I'd switched to the realtime, then they fixed the problem, and I find realtime way too fast for me to keep up with. - Prolific Programmer

Big difference for me is Tweetree is web based not desktop app - CyberCoder

Prolific Programmer: Real time shows when people click on "like". People normally click on like more often and comment less. It takes only a second to click on "Like". So when you are subscribed to many people, there are so many likes to the extent that your realtime doesn't stop for a moment. - Ramkarthik

For me, the desktop client makes a huge difference in the usefulness of a social networking tool. I never found twitter on the web that compelling. It is only with a tool like Twhirl or Tweetdeck it has become really useful. - Joe Brinkman

At first I thought it was another attempt to hack Twitter's (lack of) conversation context, but then I was pleasantly surprised by their rich media embedding (Pownce reborn?) We'll see. - Bwana ☠

Bwana, to me the "rich media embedding" is the key feature. - Dave Winer

http://itweet.net is much better! - Sweyn Venderbush

If anything, Tweetree is showing Twitter what's possible. Of course, many companies are showing Twitter was else is possible. - Mark Evans

I'm starting to like Tweetdeck it seems to be growing on me!! ;P - Paul

TweetDeck and Tweetree are two different beasts. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood