Because it wasn't hard enough trying to decide which Adobe AIR-based desktop Twitter/FriendFeed client to use, MySocial 24x7 had to go and complicate things by releasing their own desktop client. MySocial 24x7 started out as a Firefox sidebar add-on, but if you value your screen real estate, standalone applications are the way to go.
The desktop client lets you track and engage in Twitter and FriendFeed conversations without a web browser. One thing that sets MySocial 24x7 apart from other desktop clients like Twhirl and Alert Thingy is the integrated browser that lets you view pictures and videos without launching a web browser.
The interface is clean and easy to use. But it's not very customizable. If you want to see detailed user information, or send direct Twitter messages, MySocial 24x7 might not be the desktop client for you. We also had a hard time getting the client to connect to our Twitter and FriendFeed accounts, but it did a great job of tracking public timelines.
[via TechCrunch]
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5-07-2008 @ 1:04PM
D Bell said...
I have to disagree. This client is not very good. Connecting to the very services that it claims to supports did not work out of the box. The interface was boring and looked rushed. I could have dealt with the unpolished looked if the app worked better than Twhirl. Oh Well.
Some comments about Twhirl and Alert Thingy. It works great, but it is a memory hog. I would like to see them merge FF and Twitter into the same window. I think that would be a much tighter stream of consciousness, and save on screen real estate. I found that Alert Thingy had and issue with sorting Friend Feed updates properly. That bothers me, so I stopped using it. Hopefully they have it fixed now.
Lastly, I found a client called Spaz. http://funkatron.com/spaz. It does not have the FriendFeed support, but its light on the Memory usage. It is also skinnable, but I find it to be attractive out of the box. The only problem I have had with it, is the default update time for Twitter was too short, so you get a message back from Twitter complaining about too frequent updating. This was fixed by going into the settings and changing the update time to be between 6 and 10 seconds.
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