Seesmic Desktop Launches
Twhirl was pretty much the only competition for Tweetdeck and was naturally crushed by Tweetdeck's great organizational columns and clean interface. Twhirl was purchased by Seesmic last year and just couldn't find a way to catch up to Tweetdeck's success until now, maybe...
Seesmic just launched a new third party Twitter client called Seesmic Desktop which is only in "Desktop Preview" which basically means beta or alpha stage still. Go to Seesmics website http://desktop.seesmic.com/ and input your e-mail address to get an invite.
Keep in mind this is a Desktop Preview, so there is many bugs and issues to be resolved still.
The main focus is having Multiple Accounts
Seesmic has seemed to answer out Twitter prayers by providing a client that can handle multiple accounts at the same time! I love this feature and I have been following the TweetDeck suggestion boards for a while and I am surprised TweetDeck has never implemented this highly sought out feature.
It is so simple to switch accounts and manage all your replies, main streams and even direct messages. You can even reply in which ever account you want to display in the client.
Why have multiple accounts?
Most users have multiple accounts to fill in different niches. For example myself, I have a business and a personal Twitter account. I of course Tweet my business updates via my Twitter business profile and my personal tweets via my personal Twitter profile.
Now instead of logging off Tweetdeck everytime I want to Tweet in my business profile, I can seamlessly switch to either account on the fly.
The clone is missing the Facebook feature
Yes Seesmic Desktop has pretty much copied Tweetdecks main features the one feature that Seesmic did not take as of yet is the Facebook feature which TweetDeck has. TweetDeck just recently came out with a new update just in the nick of time when Seesmic launched, coincidence?
Other Cons
Like I mentioned before, not to be too harsh on Seesmic because they are still in preview mode....below are some cons I am frustrated with
- The interface is really ugly and the fonts are not clean compared to TweetDeck. It's really hard to read sometimes Twitter users profiles and other messages because of this. They really need to get a good graphic artist to kick this up a notch.
- Adding people to groups is really a pain because unlike Tweetdeck you can only add people by finding the people you want to add in your Twitter Stream Archive or using the search feature. There is no master user list where it populates all the Twitter usernames in your follow list so that way you can just check off the ones you want to include. This is very frustrating and I hope they fix this soon.
- Errors...Errors...Errors....I really hate when I shut down the client it does not save my groups and I get this annoying error window.
Fullfillment
Bottom line is that for users who were craving for the multiple account feature, well now you can fullfill that with Seesmic and I am pretty sure that the final released version should hopefully clear up these issues before then....
Post from: Social Media Vision
Seesmic Desktop Replaces TweetDeck For The Multiple Account Twitter Client