Farewell, Tweetdeck
Tweetdeck has been my favourite Twitter client for the past six months, but hey – that’s a long time on the web and now I find that I’ve just been seduced by a shiny, new, Mac-native app.
Tweetdeck’s great strength is its ability to split your tweetstream into manageable chunks so you can keep on top of the people and searches that matter most to you. And they’ve done a great job of constantly developing its features, releasing the latest version just today.
It work on Mac and PC because it runs on the platform-independent Adobe Air. But this is one of it’s downfalls for me. I’m a big Mac fan (that’s a big fan of Apple Mac computers, not nasty burgers) and Adobe Air just doesn’t feel quite like a Mac application. Nambu does, because it is ‘native’ to the Mac.
Nambu has some extra features too, like threaded conversations, so if you reply to a tweet or get a reply to one of your tweets, the conversation is kept together (think of how emails look in gmail, compared to all other email applications).
I’m about to download the version for the iPhone. Surely it can’t displace Tweetie…
The threaded conversations sound like a huge plus to me, I’ll definitely try it asap, but then it will be too late because something shinier/faster/trendier will have been released and so I will carry on running after the cool kids forever and ever.
Nambu is absolutely brilliant for multiple accounts as well – the “mail” look-a-like view is perfect
Goodbye to TweetDeck indeed!
@ben – Yes, it does look good for multiple accounts. I haven’t checked that out yet, but it’s another Tweetdeck-killing feature.
@céline – just stick around with us cool kids at OBH and you’ll pick up enough tips to keep yourself almost up to date. ;-)
Glad to see I’m in 3/4 columns ;)