5 More of the Best Free Linux Twitter Clients
Twitter has seen an extraordinary increase in the number of
tweets, brief posts of 140 characters. That's right, an absurd
constraint, with no pictures, video, or audio. Nevertheless, these
short messages seems to bring out the best in humour, understanding,
and observation, with tweets often sticking to the facts. 25 billion
tweets were made in the past year alone using this text message service
by over 100 million people around the world!
Most of these posts are made by ordinary folk. The
majority of tweets may be seen as noise, mere random thoughts that have
little real significance. However, there are many smart and
professional people who are using Twitter intelligently. Many
celebrities have also taken up the mantle. Our particular favorite
celeb-tweeters include Jonathan Ross (television and radio presenter),
Stephen Fry (actor, writer, television presenter, journalist, comedian,
and film director), Lance Armstrong (road racing cyclist), and Rick
Sanchez (a former TV news anchor).
Tweet talking is also important in terms of marketing and
communication, business networking, offering breaking news and getting
scoops. It can also help to alleviate the information
overload from email, social bookmarking, RSS readers, and instant
messages.
The feature 7
of the Best Free Twitter clients, written in
July 2009, highlighted our personal favourites in this type of
application. However, we have witnessed a number of other twitter
clients that have improved significantly in the meantime. The
purpose of this article is therefore to identify those applications
which were not included in our original article, but which are
definitely worth investigating.
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is
available, we have compiled a list of 5 more excellent Twitter
clients, all of which make micro-blogging effortless. Hopefully, there
will be something of interest here for anyone who wants to
tweet.
So, let's explore the 5 Twitter clients at hand. For
each application we have compiled its own portal page, a full
description with an in-depth analysis of its features, screenshots,
together with links to relevant resources and
reviews. Start tweeting today!
| Twitter clients |
| Hotot |
Depends less but supports more |
| Turpial |
Light,
fast, functional, and integrated to the desktop |
| Pino |
Uses the Vala language to create a simple and fast
client |
| Destroy
Twitter |
Client
without the baggage of
other social network clients |
| Mixero |
Adobe AIR desktop Twitter and Facebook client
application |
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