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WTF is this and what happens when I give it my password - Tyler (Chacha)

it's an air twitter client and it's pretty damn awesome. - Cee Bee

why should I use this over tweetdeck? - Susan Beebe

'cause it's compact and FULL of features - Cee Bee

Cee Bee - what features? I can't find anything new...and it lacks many of what tweetdeck has. - Zee.

i'm using http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/ - Nimaa

great app ! It just need to allow to be minimized to tray and it will be perfect ! - Basile from IM

Is it just me or are more people using (and more apps allowing the use of) Twitter in place of IM? - Akiva Moskovitz

no ability to group contacts from what i can tell, but the ui is pretty smooth and allows one to get all kinds of view/preferences with ease. i prefer a smaller window though it should probably be re-sizeable - Cee Bee

akiva, i was thinking about that just yesterday -- how IM seems to be going the route of the 8-track barry gibb discography - Cee Bee

Just said WTF because it said Destroy Twitter.. thought it was going to spam the heck out of me - Tyler (Chacha)

Very Nice App. I wish it was Resizable though. - Tyler (Chacha)

Cee Bee, I wouldn't even have an IM client installed if it weren't for two friends, both across the country, with whom I talk regularly. But there's no chance in hell I'd get either of them into another instant communication medium, unfortunately, so I'm stuck. - Akiva Moskovitz

I personally find Twitter unusable as an IM platform. It's too much like a disorganized firehose. I find the @reply too cumbersome to actually use to have conversations with people. - matthew john ernisse

matthew, that's why apps like this are necessary. They can filter, present conversations as threads, alert you to new DMs and @replies, and so forth. - Akiva Moskovitz

@akiva I think it's unlikely then that Twitter will supplant IM until it is able to provide IM-style functionality natively. I don't think the mainstream audience is going to tolerate having to find an app to tack the functionality on. - matthew john ernisse

Oh, I wasn't talking mainstream replacement. I'm just talking about the tech savvy. Twitter's too confusing for Ma & Pa MSN Messenger user, even with flashy little apps like this one. - Akiva Moskovitz

Tried out their DestroyFlickr app and I liked it. From the site: " I'm Jonnie Hallman. Most of my days are spent destroying today. To destroy today is to make the most of the day—destruction as a form of creation. This is my carpe diem. " - vijay

I like this a lot, suits my minimalistic style. - Nick

I guess it depends on what kind of tech savvy user you're talking about. I follow people just for the influx of trivia and random links mostly. I don't use apps with twitter, and have like 3 people I follow set to send SMS to my phone. Since the track function has been broken it's been even less useful since now @replies aren't SMS'd to me. - matthew john ernisse

matthew, it's just a matter of how you choose to use Twitter. I'm the opposite of you: I tend not to follow people who just post an endless stream of links or who provide one-way conversation. I follow people who I find interesting and might chat back and forth with sometimes. So, it'd be more a viable idea for me than for you. - Akiva Moskovitz

As has been discussed many times before, Twitter is many things to many people, and there is no 'right' usage or even standard usage. I use Twitter to converse with other local people, I auto-tweet my new blog posts (about the only auto thing I do really), and I often click on links posted I think might be interesting. Like Akiva said above, I think 'interesting' is the key word. I would add informative too perhaps, but even that usually needs to be of interest too! - Ian May

nod, I think it'd be more likely to attract conversational usage from me if the website offered a better interface for it. I use many different computers and devices throughout the day that an app isn't really viable for me, so I tend to use it in the way the website allows. Much like how I'm more apt to participate in discussions here because of the ease of doing so :) - matthew john ernisse

matthew, yep, conversations are definitely better in FriendFeed regardless of how apps try to coax it out of the Twitter API. But, back on the subject of this post: I tried this app and didn't like it. If I were to try to integrate Twitter into my daily life more, this is not the app I would use to do it. - Akiva Moskovitz

what's with the name? - Paul Whitaker

No you should use #feedalizr to integrate it all into your daily life www.feedalizr.com - Michael

bump due to duplicate - Zee.

bump due to duplicate - Zee.

So, what's the verdict? Better or worse that. Tweetdeck? - Christian Anderson

Looks like a good basic client. Tweetdeck is better, IMHO. - Nate Pilling

a loverly and simple app.i use it all the time - Zafarali