PC & Mac

Seesmic

This app is becoming a fave in the Lake Charles Twitter community. With upgrades almost weekly, Seesmic should cover all of your tweeting needs.

Following a long list of twitizens? Tired of scrolling through your global pals to see what your local buddies are posting? Then TweetDeck is the app for you. All the features of twhirl, but with organizational features to help filter all the chirps to your taste.

Download Seesmic

Features include:

• Tweet directly from Seesmic
• Stay up to date – view all new tweets in real-time
• Use columns to create your personal dashboard
• Create user lists to easily follow friends, colleagues or other interest groups
• Supports multiple accounts.
• See updates for all of your accounts in one feed.

• Update Facebook
• Follow topics in real-time with saved searches
• View @replies and direct messages and manage your conversations
• Never miss an important tweet with notifications

• Upload TwitPics and shorten urls
  

PC and Mac

twhirl

This application is very clean and really simple to use. It sits right on your desktop and gives you all the features you'd want in a lean and mean twitter app.

Download twhirl

Features include:

• Updating
• Desktop alerts
• Clean, customizable interface
• Retweeting
• Setting favorites
• Small system resource footprint

PC and Mac

TweetDeck

This app is very quickly becoming a staple for serious Twitter users. It's heavy on features and 100% customizable.

Following a long list of twitizens? Tired of scrolling through your global pals to see what your local buddies are posting? Then TweetDeck is the app for you. All the features of twhirl, but with organizational features to help filter all the chirps to your taste.

Download TweetDeck

Features include:

• Tweet directly from TweetDeck
• Stay up to date – view all new tweets in real-time
• Use columns to create your personal dashboard
• Create Groups to easily follow friends, colleagues or other interest groups

• Update Facebook and follow your Facebook friends
• Follow topics in real-time with saved searches
• View @replies and direct messages and manage your conversations
• Never miss an important tweet with notifications

• Share your photos and videos with Twitpic and 12seconds

PC only

digsby

If you want to have all of your social media tools feeding into one app, then digsby may be the tool for you.

A lite application with a lot of power, digsby allows users to have their facebook, twitter, gmail, yahoo, outlook and many others all feeding into one place. Have multiple accounts? Digsby can handle that to. Maybe not the best all around app for twittering, but still handy for the average user.

Download digsby

Features include:

• One combined buddy list for all your AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber, and Facebook Chat Accounts.
• Manage your Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, IMAP, and POP accounts right from digsby.
• Get popup notifications when new email arrives. Clicking a popup takes you right to the message with auto-login into webmail accounts.
• Stay up to date with everything happening on your Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn accounts.
• Receive alerts of events such as new friend requests, messages, group invites, etc.
• Customize digsby with application skins to give it a personal look and feel.
• Digsby offers complete synchronization between computers and installations. Everything from the skin you chose to your pre-defined status messages follows you from place to place.

iPhone

TwitterFon

TwitterFon is a simple, clean, easy to use, and super fast Twitter client for your iPhone and iPod Touch. By far one of, it not the best FREE Twitter apps for the iPhone.

TwitterFon is focused on 80% of your task of Twitter such as check friends/replies timeline, check direct messages, send a reply and/or a direct message, and search. It also focused on easy to use. It has very clean user interface, very fast response and scrolling. You don't need any hassle.

Download TwitterFon

Features include:

• Clean and simple interface

• Tweet, reply, direct message, re-tweet, GPS post and TwitPic all from the same application

• Easy navigation

• Very stable
  

Palm

MOtwit

Not much to mention in the way of features or style, but if all you're looking for is a simple way to post your tweets then this app does the trick. As easy as sending a text, it allows you to send your tweets as fast your connection will allow. There aren't currently many applications for the palm line of mobiel phones, so if you're looking to twitter then this is pretty close to it.

Download MOtwit

Features include:

• Tweet directly from your mobile device

• Log in to the mobile Twitter page

• See your timeline and the timeline of your friends
  

FireFox

twitbin

This lean little FireFox plug-in is great. It has a simple, clean user interface and all of the basic tweeting tools you'll need. It doesn't support mulitple accounts, but for that shouldn't matter for the single account user. It's perfect for shooting of a quick tweet and following up on links sent to you by your friends, right inside the FireFox browser.

Download twitbin

Features include:

• Tweet directly from the FireFox browser
• Easy to download and use
• Clean user interface
• All the basic Twitter functions
• Convenient location
• Docks to the side of your browser so you an hide it without closing