Tweet With Tweetie: The New Twitter Client For Mac

Over the past few weeks I have noticed that Twitter is beginning to gain momentum, here in Australia. It seems I see or hear the word Twitter at least a few times a day, either through Radio, Newspapers or in general conversation. However, given that Twitter in Australia is still kind of new, a lot of people may not know that there are programs that help manage your tweets, also known as Twitter clients. There are several Twitter clients available on the internet today, but it's hard to work out what one is the best to use.

Well, the decision may become easy when the new Twitter client named Tweetie becomes available on Apple Mac desktops on Monday 20th April.

TechCrunch managed to get their hands on an early build of the product and have provided a brief impression until a full review is conducted on Monday:

• The app deals with photos from sites like TwitPic perfectly - images pop up quickly in lightweight windows, without having to open a browser
• Sending images is also perfectly executed. Just drag and drop the image from your desktop to Tweetie’s new message field, and it does the rest.
• While there isn’t currently a way to get a Column view similar to TweetDeck’s, you can break out as many search panes as you’d like, each of which is treated as its own window (this is great for when you only need to keep track of a search term temporarily).
• As with Tweetie on the iPhone, it just feels so Mac. The icons do what you think they should, and there aren’t any extraneous text fields or buttons
• Global Hotkeys.

Tweetie will offer a free version that will be ad supported, as well as a paid ad-free version app for $14.95.

Main window, with popup TinyPic image at left

New message window in the foreground (activated with a global hotkey). Search and main windows in the background

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