What I want in a Twitter client
Dec. 24th, 2009 05:18 pmI've been using TweetDeck on my work PC, and Tweetie on my Mac, and I now know exactly what I want in a Twitter client. More-or-less in preference order, or at least numbered so we can refer to them...
So, anyone know of a Twitter client that has all these, or want to write me one? *grin*
- MUST handle multiple accounts - I have my personal account, my personally identifying / work account, my online class account, and my bird's account. (Both Tweetdeck and Tweetie have this).
- Tweeting: I want to be able to post the same tweet to multiple accounts without having to copy and paste (TweetDeck has this, Tweetie does not)
- URL shortening (both TweetDeck and Tweetie have this)
- Deleting: I want to be able to right-click or something and delete the tweet. (TweetDeck has this, I don't think Tweetie does)
- Following: I want to see a single stream for tweets everyone that I follow in any of the four accounts, with a smaller copy of my own icon in the bottom info line indicating which of my four accounts is following that person (or which multiple accounts). In other words, I want the multiple following streams to be integrated into a single stream so that I don't see the same tweet from @Astro_Mike three times just because I'm following him with three accounts. (I have yet to see this in a Twitter client, and this is the one thing that'll make me switch Twitter clients at this point.)
- OS: I want the same program to exist for both Mac and PC, and look identical for both. (Nope)
- Multiple computers: I want appearance preferences stored on a server and loaded when I load the program, so that if I change something on one computer, it comes up on another one. (TweetDeck supposedly has tihs, but it's broken and hasn't ever worked for me.)
- RT: I want when I RT for it to by default start with "RT @blah:" rather than ending with "(via @blah)", and I want to be able to edit when I RT. ("RT @blah:" is TweetDeck's appearance, "(via @blah)" is Tweetie's)
- Pop-up notification: I want the ability to show the pop-up notification in various sizes, colors, and positions - corners do NOT work for me, I want right edge of the screen in the middle. (TweetDeck and Tweetie [via Growl] have limited choices here, but not enough.)
So, anyone know of a Twitter client that has all these, or want to write me one? *grin*