Review: Seesmic, Desktop Twitter Client

Though the Seesmic logo may seem a bit car­toon­ish, the soft­ware is noth­ing less than pro­fes­sional.  With a wealth of fea­tures and a fre­quent release of updates, Seem­sic has quickly become my Twit­ter desk­top client of choice.  Not only can you man­age mul­ti­ple accounts with Seesmic, the vari­ety of dis­play modes avail­able make it rather easy to man­age the mul­ti­ple time­lines.  Seesmic will inter­act with your Face­book account as well.

Seesmic makes it easy to share pic­tures from your hard-drive with your Twit­ter fol­low­ers, or you can use your web­cam to snap a pic­ture.  Seesmic offers a vari­ety of image host­ing ser­vices to choose from.  Com­bine this with the inte­grated URL short­en­ing ser­vices and text short­en­ing, Seesmic helps you make the most out of the 140 char­ac­ter limit.

I was using Tweet­Deck before I found Seesmic and now rarely open Tweet­Deck, and only for ref­er­ence while writ­ing about it.

I find the Seesmic user inter­face to be eas­ier to use, more pol­ished, and far less gloomy than that of Tweet­Deck and I love how easy it is to change the dis­play mode.  View every­thing from a sin­gle col­umn view, or pick which style of multi-column view you pre­fer.  Add or sub­tract columns for replies, direct mes­sages, saved searches, or any­thing in your “Sent” stream for example.

You can orga­nize Twit­ter users you fol­low by assign­ing them to groups, and open a col­umn ded­i­cated to a group to see what is hap­pen­ing with the users assigned to it.  Open­ing and clos­ing columns couldn’t be eas­ier, and keep­ing your time­lines orga­nized this way cer­tainly saves time.  Twit­ter users who fol­low many oth­ers will ben­e­fit from Seesmic ‘s user-friendly inter­face greatly.

I do think the text which des­ig­nates which ser­vice and account the mes­sages are assigned could be big­ger.  Seesmic would ben­e­fit from a more promi­nent dis­play of them, but all in all, I am very sat­is­fied with the Seesmic desk­top Twit­ter client.  And with some of the newer fea­tures com­ing down the pipeline as well as the Seesmic on the web, I am sure you will see more and more peo­ple uti­liz­ing this won­der­ful tool.

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