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Twitter 3rd Party Applications

by karnbach Dec 5, 2008 7:56AM PST

I've heard about Twitter for some time, never felt I needed it. The other day my favorite radio station RealRadio.FM talked about it and I was interested.

After registering into the Twitter website I became disenchanted. I was hoping that I'd be able to create groups; family, friends, co-workers... just like an IM application.

I browsd the site some more and I found many 3rd party applications that I assume are what I'm looking for but, I haven't found any site that has reviewed this software.

Any suggestions?

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Well,
by DaveBinM Dec 5, 2008 7:58AM PST

There's no grouping functionality that's actually appeared (yet) natively in Twitter, but for general Twitter use, I use Twitterific (on my MacBook), and Twhirl is a pretty decent client that runs on both Windows and Mac, though I'm unsure about Linux. Hope that helps!

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I'm Surprised
by karnbach Dec 5, 2008 8:20AM PST

Thanks Dave but, really? You'd think Twiiter would build that or someone else would have. Hmmm... if only I could program! LOL

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You'd think they would have, but...
by DaveBinM Dec 6, 2008 1:32AM PST

they're not super efficient at rolling out new features. However, I do believe groups are coming. Eventually. At some point. Someone else might very well have programmed a way to use groups, but I've not heard of one in any case. Programming is useful, I just wish I knew a few more languages, and was better at the ones I do know!

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I think that...
by navsimpson Dec 6, 2008 2:54AM PST
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Well what do you know...
by karnbach Dec 6, 2008 5:22AM PST

Thanks NavSimpson... I'll check it out tomorrow... watching the SEC Championship. Go Gators! Happy

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Grouping
by TechieEnthusiast Dec 9, 2008 8:23AM PST

I was also looking for the grouping feature but I found out in a recent press conference that the CEO mentioned they were working on groups and other things.

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