Twhirl adds FriendFeed, Alert Thingy adds Twitter

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Twhirl adds FriendFeed, Alert Thingy adds Twitter

by Brad Linder Apr 17th 2008

When it comes to desktop alert clients for social networking feeds, there can be only one. Well, that's not really true, but when it comes right down to it, do you want to run one application to keep track of your Twitter updates, another for posting to Jaiku and Pownce, and still a third to track FriendFeed updates? Probably not, which is why Twhirl is such a nifty little application since it can now do all of those things, and support for video micro-blogging service Seesmic is coming soon.

That brings the total number of Adobe AIR-based desktop clients for accessing FriendFeed updates to at least two. The other day we told you about Alert Thingy, a new desktop client for keeping tabs on your FriendFeed information. But just as Twhirl was busy adding FriendFeed to its repertoire, Alert Thingy's developers were adding Twitter integration, which means the two applications are now fighting for the same user base.

At this point, Twhirl has a much stronger Twitter client than Alert Thingy and Alert Thingy has a much more elegant FriendFeed interface. And both applications eat up more RAM than we're really comfortable with. But development on these desktop notifier/communication clients is happening at a pretty quick pace and both tools are worth keeping an eye on.

[via TechCrunch]

Tags: alert-thingy, desktop-clients, fiendfeed-clients, friendfeed, tweet-this, twhirl, twitter

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

SomeAudioGuy said 2:00PM on 4-17-2008

Been using Twhirl for a while, and I really like it.
Will have to check out Friend Feed now... Yet Another Online Distraction...sigh...

baziz said 3:07PM on 4-17-2008

I like twhirl a lot, but it just takes up too much ram for my laptop to handle. 45+mb.

Woland said 7:36AM on 4-18-2008

The first one with an interface that doesn't suck will win32 me over. As of now they're useful but(t) ugly. And that's my main problem with AIR apps. It's ok to run apps that doesn't follow the UXG, because most doesn't. What is not ok is to run an app that doesn't follow HIG. So I don't.

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