Twitter on Your Desktop

Snitter is a Twitter app that brings the fun, addictive micro-blogging service, Twitter, to your desktop. Unlike a similar app, Twitterific, Snitter runs on both Mac and Windows PCs. Built with Adobe’s AIR, Snitter offers many features, many that are beyond what’s available on the Twitter website. Snitter’s features include:

• Auto-updates to the tweet list
• Highlights of messages sent to you via @ syntax (and makes a chirp)
• Clears current list of tweets
• Refreshes list of tweets
• Displays last time it tried to request an update
• View 20 most recent items in your timeline
• View 20 most recent replies
• View 20 most recent direct messages
• View and filter friends list by name and screen name
• View and filter followers
• Links to easily @reply and Direct message users
• Keyboard shortcuts to access each panel (t=tweets, a=archives, r=replies, d=direct messages, f=favourites, i=friends, o=followers, u=updates)
• Add favorites tab and allow tweets to be set as a favorite
• Notifies you of new versions of Snitter
• Audible notification of new tweets
• Remembers previous window size and location
• Will minimize to system tray
• Auto-login

As a Vista user, I’m using Twadget myself, which is a Vista sidebar gadget. The gadget is simple: you can update your status and view the most recent tweets from your friends. The most recent version hyperlinks the URLs posted, the one thing that I was sorely missing. It’s not as rich an app as Snitter, but it’s a handy way to keep an eye on Twitter throughout your day.