ObnoxiousAcorns

There are numerous lists all over the enternet of desktop applications on Twitter. But most of them mimic the exact format of Twitter’s Timeline no the homepage. What if you followed all of those people, but only want to receive the updates from a select few, say, only your friends. Or only your family members? Most applications are built for small Twitter accounts (meaning less that 2,000). And those with larger accounts will notice that those applications run out of API (the amount of times a program can get updates from Twitter) really fast when you get 500 updates a minute. 

So there are three choices for the larger accounts:
     o Receive updates every 6 minutes.
     o Find a better application for larger accounts.
     o Forget having an application and just use the Twitter page.

Theres nothing wrong with option number one, but when you only receive updates every 6 minutes, it defeats the purpose of it being live, so going to the page is worth it. The second choice is obviously the best choice (unless you enjoy the page, there’s nothing wrong with that). But if you want to actually seperate the tweets you receive, I have two desktop applications that will work:

TweetDeck was the first desktop application I used. It can seperate your friends into different columns depending on how you want it. You can also have facebook applications on it, stocktips, and many more applications. However, I have over 4,000 followers, so my API depletes slower than other applications, but still fast enough that I do not use this one as much (it takes 30 minutes to run out for me). This one is recommended from 1 – 2,000 followings. After that, you will have to take more time between updates. This one runs on all platforms.

TweetDeck on my Computer:
 

Seesmic Desktop is probably my favorite one. It does not have a great deal of add-ons, but you have the ability to seperate the groups into people you want, you can add a reply bar, and you can search for anyone on twitter with the search bar. I have never ran out of API using this one, which is why I recommend this one for anyone who has 2,000 – 10,000 friends. And you can manage more than one account (but since I only have one, I have not used this feature). And this will work on Mac and PC.

 
Seesmic Desktop on my Computer:

Although these are for larger accounts, they encourage smaller accounts to use these as well. And if you have any more desktop applications that should be listed here, the comment section below welcomes them. 

-Nicole Turpin. 2009 ObnoxiousAcorns