Is Tweetbot for Mac worth almost 20 dollars?

Many of Apple devices users knows about the famous twitter client called Tweetbot. In late 2012, Tweetbot's creators decided to migrate to the Mac OS X platform. They did a very nice job with the interface of the client. It looks amazing! Tweetbot for Mac brings you all the cool features of the mobile app for a bigger screen. But many people complained about the app price: US$ 19,99.

We all know that Twitter has a official app for OS X, the one which was not updated since 1st of June 2011, but Tweetbot for mac came to show to the heavy-users what they always wanted. A lot of informations is going online every second on Twitter. Personally, I do not watch tv anymore and just read the news via social networks. With the streaming timeline I can quickly read tweets when I'm surfing the web or doing other things. 

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Review of YoruFukuRou

This is a screenshot of YoruFukuRou in action.

Firstly, I like YoruFukuRou because of how it lets you go though different types of tweets.  I call how they do it "tabs".  The four tabs up top are timeline(where you can see the tweets from the people you follow), Mentions(your mentions), DM(your Direct Messages) and your favorite tweets.  I like how you don't see all that at one time like TweetDeck, but they are easy to get to.

Secondly, YoruFukuRou is using Twitter's new Real Time Streaming API.  You can enable or disable it in the settings but I like it because you see the new tweets as they come in, instead of just every one to two minutes as the old API didn't support a Real Time stream of tweeting.

Rating: 9.4/10

You can download YoruFukuRou here.  It is a great twitter client for Mac OS X and I recommend it.

Seesmic Joins the Real-Time Fray with Seesmic Desktop 2

The Twitter world was buzzing a little bit ago about TweetDeck and Echofon getting the user stream preview.  Well, Seesmic just released a new beta of Seesmic Desktop that has the same user stream preview as the aforementioned clients. 

As of today(8/9/10) it is Windows only  and runs on Silverlight, Microsoft's online platform for videos, music and applications. To enable the user stream preview, click the settings gear down on the left -> click plugins -> scroll down until you find Twitter -> click settings -> check the box for user stream previews -> save and restart. Tweets will begin flying at you! That is if, you're following a lot of people. I only follow 209 at the time of this writing, as seen in the video.

UPDATE: You can install it on OS X as well, you just need OS X's Silverlight.

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