twhirl.org Marco Kaiser, Seesmic Inc. April 2008, San Francisco, CA
twhirl is a desktop client for the Twitter microblogging service. Most of the features available on the Twitter website are accessible through twhirl, too. Plus, a lot of usability enhancements have been added. It is a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform. Some of the features are:
- connects to multiple Twitter, identi.ca, Friendfeed and seesmic accounts
- shorten long URLs (using snurl, twurl or is.gd)
- cross-post twitter updates to Pownce and Jaiku
- post images to TwitPic
- search tweets using Twitter Search and TweetScan