For those of you who aren’t familiar with Twitter, it’s a neat little service that allows you to write 140 character “micro-blog” posts and share them with your friends. There are a lot of simple desktop clients popping up to allow people to “tweet” and review their friends “tweets” from the desktop. The most popular of these services at present is Twitterific.
A couple of nights ago Robert Scoble tweeted that he’s using a new Twitter desktop client: Snitter, so I checked it out.
I instantly liked it better than Twitterific. Here’s why:
- It allows you to make a small URL from within the interface rather than making you go to your browser to go to sites like TinyURL, URLTea or SnipURL.
- You can send direct messages to people and see your direct messages within the client, rather than going to the browser.
- You can look at a feed of all tweets by your followers, again without going to your browser, even if you don’t typically follow them.
