Adobe AIR-based microblogging client Twhirl already supported Twitter, Friendfeed and Seesmic, and now its coverage of the world of mini-updates gets even broader with the addition of Identi.ca. Identi.ca is something like a less-popular open-source version of Twitter. This is a big deal for the Identi.ca folks, because Twhirl may actually be better-known than their service. Along with potentially pumping up the userbase of a fledgling microblogging site, Twhirl has also position itself to be to these micropost what Trillian and Adium are to IM. Keeping several services readily accessible from the same app is a proven winner when it's done right, and Twhirl delivers on the usability and appearance side of things. It was already one of the most popular clients back when it could only handle Twitter, and its main competition is going to come from some of the better Twitter-specific clients that attract people who don't use the other sites Twhirl handles.
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7-23-2008 @ 12:36PM
Insomnic said...
This is coolbut eventually may be unnecessary as one of the future features of Indenti.ca is to incorporate the twitter api so that posts to twitter or identi.ca are automatically cross posted to the other (http://identi.ca/doc/faq).
Twhirl is definitely keeping ahead of the pack.
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