Monday, June 1, 2009

TwitHive: Awsome Twitter Web Client

Positive thinking in action... A few weeks ago I scoured the web in search for a good web client for Twitter. Today enter, or rather navigate to, TwitHive.

The overall TwitHive experience is similar to TweetDeck, only better in a few respects.

It's a web application. Whatever you setup on one machine is readily available when you log in from another.

It supports multiple accounts. This is very important for anyone who's running a business and tweets from both personal and business account. Very neat.

I was very happy to find that the application properly displays the people I follow. That's in contrast to TweetDeck and native Twitter web client, both of which annoyingly show tweets from people that I no longer follow.

Groups can be created as needed. However, due to the clean "followee" list, I found that I didn't need to resort to groups and can enjoy the full stream.

Search functionality is on par with TweetDeck for my usage.

I liked the idea of channels as a way of organizing your Twitter usage. A channel can represent a tweet stream, a group, direct messages for a particular account, or live search results.

TwitHive currently doesn't seem to have notifications. I'm still contemplating whether it's good or bad.

The only feature that I miss is the ability to somehow hide read tweets. Hopefully it will be added in due time.

Somehow the post grew into a little review of a very nice service. I wish someone would do that for my application ;-)

Have a look at it and see for yourself.

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