Comments on: Give us a Twhirl

By: Dennnis Howlett

Dennnis Howlett — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:02:54 +0000

@andrew: that's why a bunch of us are working on ESME – secure form of Twitter for serious people like thee and me.

By: Krupo

Krupo — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:13:20 +0000

I guess I don't value connectivity as highly as you.

After the recent twitter security breach, my wariness level hasn't decreased! :p

By: Jr

Jr — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:32:00 +0000

I've been a loyal Twhirl user for months after maintaining multiple Twitter accounts became too much of a pain via the web. While everyone else seemed to be evangelizing Tweetdeck, reviews made it seem as if it would facilitate a full-on Twitter addiction (I needed a tool that made Twitter as useful as possible without making it so easy to get engulfed in the site that I forgot about other useful modes of communication and connection), so I passed. Twhirl accomplished what I wanted. After a tiny honeymoon period, of course.

As for being able to update across multiple sites, call me old fashioned but I am still reluctant to tie together Facebook, Twitter, blog, etc to the point where updating is nearly automatic. There is too much of an overlap and I hate to automatically inundate my connections with the same information. Each site has its own set of connections, and its own individual purpose, at least to me. I'd like to keep it that way.

But good for Twhirl. I'm glad to see they might just overtake Tweetdeck after all.

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:43:21 +0000

Andrew – think logically. You sign up to gazzillions of services, all of which want a y/n and p/w. Sharing them among those same services isn't a big deal if it gives me connectivity. Is it? If so then how do expect that global systems are going to interoperate?

By: Krupo

Krupo — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:33:13 +0000

If that's what they have set-up, not so bad.

I refer to the sites that want your password and login ID to every single service you use – pass!

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:26:13 +0000

Why – that's what open APIs are all about?

By: Krupo

Krupo — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:53:36 +0000

Only problem is I'm still deeply suspicious of services that want my login credentials to multiple services… :p

By: Phil Baumann

Phil Baumann — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:43:32 +0000

Twhirl was the first client that helped ensnare me into Twitter. Then TweetDeck came out to offer grouping, which helped focus on main followers. Until today, I thought TweeDeck was headed toward the finals in the desktop client race.

If Twhirl adds a few more functions (like groups), I may return to it as my primary interface. TweetDeck's move I guess.

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re: Mark Lee's thoughts: As long as anybody takes Twitter seriously, they will never get anything out of it. It's like being serious about telephony. Once you realize what a stupid, absurd and inane contraption it is, you'll then see that tiny sliver of utility: that utility is different from person to person imho.

Final remark: I can think of many ways for Accountants to use Twitter (in fact, I can think of thousands of ways accountants could violate SEC laws – but I don't think that should discourage its use). I'd love to see more accountants on Twitter (not just public ones, but all the other varieties). Twitter's as useful and useless as the peeps tweeting.