Desktop application for tweeting is the new generation way of tweeting.

It is becoming a common phenomenon to develop and use applications that can help you do anything from the desktop of your computer. Take for instance, Google Adwords. Adwords is the most preferred PPC advertisement provider on the internet. It was a cumbersome job to always log onto your Adwords account online and then work on you advertisements. Google, then came up with Adwords editor, that is a desktop application, which you could install onto your computer and manage and control your Adwords account from your computer, while having to actually login to Google Adwords online.

Desktop applications for Twitter is not something new. There are numerous applications that can help you control your twitter habits from the desktop of your computer. Still there are many more such newer applications being launched. Wondering why? It is because, there are so many features that are still unavailable in all of these applications, that it gives an option to new developers to implement that feature into their application and then launch it.

The latest in the list of desktop tweeting applications, is Tweetglide.

I downloaded and installed it a couple of days back, 17 days to be precise and have been using it for some time now. It is hence that I thought that  I will write about this application.

For people who have been using Tweetdeck and Seesmic, I would recommend switching over to Tweetglide, because you will experience a lot of new features with Tweetglide.

One of the best things about Tweetglide is that there is also an application for your iPhone and iPod touch that is being developed. Though it is still under work-in-progress, looking at the current version of the desktop application, I am sure that the iPhone application would also be amazing.

Tweetglide, like the other application uses Adobe AIR for its installation. That is something that I have always hated with all these applications. Barring this one thing there is nothing else that can be a negative aspect to Tweetglide.

Features of Tweetglide:

Lets discuss a few of the features of Tweetglide that has made me feel that this is the best application.

• Limitless Tweeting – Twitter has set a limit of 140 characters to your tweet. How many times have you felt tied up with this? Tweetglide removes this limitation. Now you can tweet in as many characters as you want, without having to be felt cramped down. This is the best feature in this application.
• Manage multiple Twitter and Facebook accounts – You can now manage multiple twitter and Facebook accounts directly from your tweetglide application interface.
• Advanced profile features – TweetGlide has great flexibility with some advanced features in your Profile area. You can see all of your followers, bulk follow them or bulk unfollow and block other users, select how often your Glides update, enter your Facebook information…and more!
• Shorten and track – Tweetglide has a unique feature that not only shortens your URLs, but also helps track them. Another unique feature that is only found in Tweetglide.
• Custom Glides – Tweetglide lets you manage the glides so well that you can customize them and rearrange whichever way you want them to.

There are many more cool and unique features that you will find in Tweetglide. You have to use it to experience it. You can download the application here.

Go ahead and download the application and don’t forget to tell me your thoughts on Tweetglide.

Have you been using Tweetdeck?

Or, are you planning to use any other desktop application for Twitter?

Then you need to check out “Seesmic Desktop”. For people who are wondering what “Seesmic Desktop” is -

Seesmic is a desktop client that facilitates using Twitter directly from your desktop and integrates it with Facebook.

What is the need of a desktop application?

Twitter is fun and is an extremely productive tool. But when I have to login on ten different websites to use twitter, I get frustrated. Bookmarking all of these websites and then logging into each of them can be quite annoying. But Twitter API has solved this problem for its users. Ease of use, integration with other Social Networking websites, automation etc. are features that the Twitter API has been able to give its users.

It is this API that has helped develop these desktop applications. Like desktop blogging publishers, desktop tweeting applications have a lot of advantages -

1. Tweet directly from your desktop. You will not have to login to Twitter to do it.
2. Keep a tab on what is hot at Twitter.
3. Track all your direct messages and send direct message replies.
4. Set alerts on keywords
5. URL shortening services
6. and many more

These desktop applications combine Twitter to other social networking sites like Facebook and helps you keep a track of everything that is happening at these Social Networking accounts as well.

There are many such Desktop applications available today – Tweetdeck, Seesmic, Buzzom etc. to name a few.

How is Seesmic different from Tweetdeck?

Tweetdeck is an amazing desktop application for Twitter. It now supports multiple Twitter accounts and integrates your Facebook account also. But new users often find that Tweetdeck is a complicated solution. Though I have a different opinion, I would still want to go by what most people say about Tweetdeck.

In such a scenario, Seesmic is the best alternative option available. Seesmic also has pretty much the same features like that of Tweetdeck – multiple Twitter accounts, Facebook integration, url shortening etc. but is far more easier to use that Tweetdeck.

The interface for Seesmic is pretty simple and easy to use.

It has 6 tabs on the left had sidebar which is also collapsible. These tabs are -

• Home – This is the main interface of Seesmic where it displays all the tweets that receive.
• @ Replies – These are the replies that have been sent.
• Private – All private messages that you have received.
• Sent – All the tweets that you have sent.
• Accounts – The details about the Twitter accounts that you have added.
• Userlists – A list of the users you designate to use the application.
• Searches – An archive of the searches you have done.

Doesn’t these sound very easy? The settings are also very easy in Seesmic and doesn’t not require too much of a technical skill or, knowledge.

It addition to the above side panel, Seesmic has options to set the size of your window – Single panel, 3 panels with a detached main panel and 3 panel with consolidated panels. There is a small Tweet box on the top which can be used to send out Tweets directly.

Seesmic supports almost all the URl shortening service and hence you choice would not be a problem at all.

Seesmic is for users who don’t want to mess around with technicalities  and wants a clean desktop application.

Which desktop application do your use?