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twhirl is the latest Twitter Client I’ve come across using the Adobe AIR package. AIR makes it possible to run the same code on both Windows and Mac (others?) which I like. I hate finding some cool app and it only be for one system. As a developer, I use Windows, Linux and a Mac and I like finding tools that work on all three systems, which is rare. Adobe’s AIR is a step in the right direction.

twhirl looks like it’s off to a solid start. Just check out these features:

• runs on both Windows (XP/Vista) and Mac OSX
• automatically fetches your friends’ status updates, as well as replies and direct messages for you, into an all-in-one timeline
• color-coding different types of messages
• connecting to multiple Twitter accounts
• keyboard shortcuts
• sys tray / dock icon support
• visual and audible notifications on new tweets, configurable and with preview
• view, add and remove favorites
• shorten long URLs (using snurl.com)
• (un)follow users from twhirl
• automatically checking for twhirl updates
• changeable color schemes
• NEW: retweet a received tweet
• NEW: search public tweets (powered by terraminds)
• NEW: timeline filtering

Looks well worth giving a shot. I’m still looking forward to a client like this that supports Pownce and all the others that have API’s. This way I can post to all my microblogging hot spots at once.

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