I have been using Twhirl as my Twitter client of choice on Windows for a few weeks now and am really happy with, especially when Twitter is actually up and running.
Twhirl is based on the Adobe AIR platform and puts a nice rich client on the Twitter experience. The nice thing is, it also runs in Apple Macs too.
The new release also allows cross-posting updates to Pownce and Jaiku too. I would like to be able to read updates on Pownce and Jaiku from Twhirl, but we will see if developers respond and give us a client capable of this. Other features include:
Some of twhirl?s features:
- runs on both Windows (XP/Vista) and Mac OSX
- automatically fetches your friends? status updates, as well as replies and direct messages for you, into an all-in-one timeline
- color-coding different types of messages
- connecting to multiple Twitter accounts
- keyboard shortcuts
- sys tray / dock icon support
- visual and audible notifications on new tweets, configurable and with preview
- view, add and remove favorites
- shorten long URLs (using snurl.com)
- automatically checking for twhirl updates
- changeable color schemes
- search public tweets (powered by terraminds)
- NEW: timeline filtering
- NEW: localization (English, German, Italian, Spanish)
- NEW: network status indicator
- NEW: cross-post to Pownce and Jaiku
- NEW: marks new tweets as unseen
The support has also been very good. I hope this clients goes a long way.