Do you use Twitter Clients? TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop compared

Twitter has exponentially grown into a phenomenon and is gaining new users everyday.  But apart from the simple website interface there are other options. Do you use Twitter enough to quantify using a software client? There are loads available: Twitterific, Twhirl, TweetDeck, Seesmic Desktop etc.  They really give you a great overview of the ever evolving world of Twitter…

Recently Seesmic Desktop came out and even as a 0.1 Beta release is it worth trying? Well it’s very similar to TweetDeck with multiple columns which is what I like. It’s all set out simply with no flashy graphics getting in the way of your browsing.  There are more features available for TweetDeck, with newly added Facebook updates integrated, however the interface on Seesmic is a lot simpler for a novice.  Both clients have audio/visual alerts, if requested, for Twitter updates so you are always be up to date with your friends’ latest tweet.  In my opinion Seesmic is great but as I want a bit more I’m more inclined to stick with TweetDeck for now, but who knows?  What’s great about the majority of Twitter clients is they are free and easy to install, both TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop are built on the new and successful Adobe AIR platform (both Windows and OS X) which you will need installed first.

Will Twitter continue to grow and attract larger audiences? Are we that involved in Twitter to justify using clients, that really just means we spend/waste more time on Twitter? Don’t forget to follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/daz4590 So why not experiment and find your own favourite client and let us know below by commenting below!