Tweet­Deck is arguably one of the most pop­u­lar desk­top Twit­ter clients cur­rently avail­able.  With the num­ber of fea­tures avail­able in Tweet­Deck, there is a lit­tle bit of some­thing for everyone.

Per­haps that is the prob­lem. In my opin­ion, TweetDeck’s user-interface appears to be a work-in-progress wait­ing to progress as new fea­tures are devel­oped instead.  Recent updates haven’t done much to improve the inter­face, and it cer­tainly could use some love.  The tiny but­tons which are the key to most of TweetDeck’s fea­tures look a bit out of place, and the default color scheme is as dark and gloomy as the Tweet­Deck web­site.  While you can change the color scheme in the set­tings win­dow, the default col­ors are not my idea of a good first impres­sion. (more…)

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. (more…)

With the ever ris­ing pop­u­lar­ity of the Social Media pow­er­house Twit­ter, new appli­ca­tions and ser­vices pop up every week.  From fol­lower man­age­ment and sched­uled tweets to spam block­ing and desk­top clients, there are tools for just about every­thing you could think of.

It is my goal to seek out, try out, and shout out about these tools and their use­ful­ness.  I will be updat­ing this list often, and sug­ges­tions for new tools to add/review are always wel­come.  Post your Twit­ter appli­ca­tion and ser­vice rec­om­men­da­tions in the com­ment sec­tion or via Twit­ter: http://twitter.com/burnman. (more…)