Twitter for Mac, Twitter for Windows?

In January, we saw with the release of the new Mac App Store Twitter released their new client for Mac,updating the outdated Tweetie, after Twitter bought Atebits, creator of Tweetie and claiming rights to the application. Atebits was also the developer who invented Tweetie for iPhone which in turn changed to Twitter for iPhone. 

Twitter then created Twitter for Android & Twitter for Windows Phone after releasing a BlackBerry client too. With the majority of smartphones sorted, what about the other computer operating systems? Windows & Linux?

Twitter clients which are widely available for Windows and Linux, thanks to the Adobe Air platform are standard and allow the user to control their Twitter account within the client itself, without the need of logging into the web interface. TweetDeck is a great client for those power users where as Twhirl and DestroyTwitter are primarily focused at the casual tweeter. However, with the Adobe Air platform compatible with Mac too, Twitter is facing quite a competition and will need to add more functions than they did with their Mac application to win Windows users over. 

I'm both a Mac and a PC as I operate both within my household so I have no bias opinion, but I ask "what is yours?". Leave a comment below!

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Comments

[Nathaniel Higgins]

Great Post Jonny! I totally agree that Twitter should open its clients to windows and linux, but one possible reason they have not is that they have not too long ao released #newtwitter and they still want it to be used.

[Joseph]

Nice post. I use windows 7. I dont have $800 to get a mac.

[Norcross]

I'm a Windows desktop and Android user. I've found that Tweetdeck (for both platforms) is the best feature set for me. On my iPad, I was using an app called "HelTweetica" for a while, but it hasn't been updated in quite some time and the bugs have gotten to me. So I'm back to the main Twitter app there.