Friday, October 23, 2009

Hummingbird

Hummingbird

Hummingbird is an intelligent Twitter marketing tool. It targets and auto follows Twitter accounts based on keywords. It also provides stats and reports of your account, followers, and interested tweets.

As an Adobe Air app, Hummingbird supports Windows and Mac OSX (it should support Linux though it’s not written in Hummingbird website. Strange uh?). One cool feature of Hummingbird is that it supports 3rd party plugins and most of them are free. Unfortunately Hummingbird itself is not free and kinda expensive.. 197$! and there’s not trial version to test.. At least the screenshots shows some of the mentioned features.




Dabr

Dabr

Dabr is Twitter web client for mobiles and can work with any mobile connects to internet. Its interface is very simple to use and has lots of features.

At the top, you have different pages of your friends tweets, replies, direct messages, Twitter search, trends, friends profiles, and favorites. There’s also a page for uploading pictures to TwitPic.

One cool feature of Dabr is the ability to change the interface to best fit your phone screen. In the settings page, there’s an interface for iPhone (touch phones), normal phones, text only, PC/Labtop, and work safe interface (which is a very simple minimal not colored interface to make sure work in all mobiles).

For each tweet, there are options to reply, retweet, DM or to favorite the tweet.


Kzalek

Kzalek

Kzalek is a decent Adobe Air Twitter client for Arabic users. Adobe Air apps have problems in viewing Arabic fonts in Mac and Linux (as well Flash). Kzalek solves this issue and also provides right to left (RTL) view for Arabic tweets.

What makes Kzalek lovely is it’s simple minimal interface plus the features that are presented in small neat icons. Features like translating tweets to Arabic, expanding shortened URLs using Untiny service, and uploading images to TwitPic.

Kzalek still in beta supporting an Arabic interface only for now. It seems promising in future as global Twitter client in case the English interface is supported. Note that Spaz Adobe Air app also support Arabic encoding in tweets.

Developed by Mustafa Farghay. More on ArabCrunch.


Termtter

Termtter

Termtter is a terminal based Twitter client written in Ruby language. You can post tweets, send direct messages, view followers, and more using shell commands! A geeky type of apps.. Also Termtter supports plugins to extend the functionality of the app.

Termtter can run in Linux and MacOS. For Windows users, there’s a Quitter command line Twitter app.