Yet Another FriendFeed/Twitter App

Oh dear lord. As if we didn’t already have enough with the war between Twhirl and Alert Thingy (and Feedalizer and bTittleTattle!), here comes yet another AIR app for Twitter/FriendFeed users. This one is from the makers of the Firefox extension, MySocial 24×7, and, like the extension, the app focuses on consolidating your social streams into one desktop app.

This app has a few nice features, like a built-in media browser and consolidated alerts, but for Twhirl devotees, losing one-click access to archives, directs, replies, etc. would make switching nearly impossible.

Out-of-box, I had issues with the app. Sorry, but I don’t have my FriendFeed Remote Key memorized, and even though the app requires its entry, there was no button to push to quickly pull it up in the browser. FriendFeed fanatics may know that it’s available at http://friendfeed.com/remotekey, but others will just be confused, and will try entering their password to no avail.

Another issue occurred after I entered in my Twitter credentials. I got a message that literally said "Some Problem." I imagine this means that I’ve hit the API wall, but at least Twhirl tells me that it’s "paused for 5 minutes," not "some problem."

There are also weird scroll boxes around the "Everyone" button (see picture with this post). This is probably because I resized the app, but that shouldn’t happen. Resizing also seemed to screw up the "Like" and "Comment" buttons, which now display with the text cut off.

However, there is one great feature of the MySocial app – the media browser, which basically means you don’t need a web page to view some content -  like YouTube videos, for example. The videos just pop-up in their own window for you to play instead.

It’s also nice that the drop-down at the bottom serves as a FriendFeed filter, allowing you to display only items from a selected service – like flickr, Google Reader, Last.fm, etc., but that alone does not a killer app make.

In the end, for everyday Twitterholics, this app may be fun to try, but it’s no where near being a Twhirl replacement.