Twitter Apps (Updated)

TweetDeck on a desktop - also on iPhone and Android

I have a love-hate relationship with Twitter. I started to use it some time ago and rapidly got fed up with the simple Twitter.com interface.

I found TweetDeck and loved it. It organised my inbox, my direct messages, and mentions in to separate columns. It had a nice clear, friendly interface. Yet, everyday I’d try and read the increasing number of tweets, and I’d get lost, and frustrated. Someone said Twitter was like shouting in a darkened room  full of other people also shouting. I began to see what they meant. And I gave up on it.

Twit List Manager - small, simple and brilliant

The one day, a client asked if I was on Twitter, I explained and they said use lists. OK so I tried again. I wasn’t sure what list were; I found I could group the people I followed into a professional list, a social list, a list of friends. I could now separate the people I follow and want to read everyday from say suppliers I follow, where if I miss some of their tweets, I am less concerned. A cool idea, until I realised I had to do each person one at a time! Even with around 100 followers this was going to take me ages.

Cue Twit List Manager – It looks a bit like the form on an on-line survey. It lists all your followers and you click to select the groups you want them to belong to. It can sort and filter and will even show you which followers don’t belong to any lists.

TweetDeck has been bought by Twitter and re-vamped – badly

The latest version of TweetDeck is now very different from that described above.

A lot of the functionality has gone, the look is to my mind depressing – imagine a grey overcast winter’s day and you’ll get the idea. Sad. I am looking for a new Twitter app. I’ll update this post when I find one