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How to Manage Multiple Twitter Accounts On Your Desktop

Dec 31, 2008 Social Media, Software, Twitter

I recently wrote a post on How To Manage Multiple Twitter Accounts On The Web, but failed to recognize a viable way to do this from your desktop, which some people prefer.

Let me introduce you to a nice little application called Twhirl.  This Mac and PC friendly program allows you to create a list of your Twitter accounts and login one-by-one.  Each account is shown in it’s own application window, and gives you the same functionality as the Twitter website, plus more.

Pros

• View direct messages, replies, favorites, and archive of your own tweets
• View friends and followers
• Follow other Twitter users
• Add tweets to favorites
• Use Twitter’s lookup feature (for usernames) as well as Twitter Search (for content in all tweets)
• Tweetscan Search
• Desktop notifications for new tweets
• Upload to TwitPic
• Shorten URLs (using one of  three different short URL providers)

Cons

• Can’t view multiple accounts in one window
• Lack of automatic brand mention tracking

While Twhirl is loaded with features,  I’m hesitant to commit because of the inability to handle multiple accounts from one window.  However, this is likely a great solution for many of you who don’t want to have a browser open at all times to manage your Twitter accounts.

Tags: desktop, Software, twhirl, Twitter