Just before leaving for SxSWi, I bought myself a new mobile phone: An HTC Hero. I love virtually all of the phone. It is taking a bit to get used to the new options and new abilities, but it works.
The one thing on the phone that wasn’t working for me? Peep – HTC’s Twitter client. I didn’t have time to grab a different client before I left, so I was stuck using either the mobile client or Peep (when it worked) to do my tweeting. PAIN in the arse. For real.
On my desktop and laptop, I use TweetDeck. I have used CoTweet for business accounts as well (and will again), but most of the time it is TweetDeck. I love it. BUT, it isn’t on the Android yet. (Please, TweetDeck, get it there as soon as possible.)
Yesterday, I tweeted and Facebooked:
I didn’t put out my specific needs, because I wanted to hear from the world what they thought. My requirements?
- Easy to use
- Don’t hang my phone
- Handles multiple accounts
- Let me do everything (or close to it) that TweetDeck does.
The results kind of startled me: An almost perfect split between Twidroid and Seesmic. And I mean within one vote.
The Twidroid folks all seemed to be using the free version. Since it doesn’t do multiple accounts, I went with Seesmic. If I don’t like it, I may spring for the $5 and get Twidroid.
What I really want: TweetDeck on my Droid. What about you?
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2 comments
CallKathy
March 19, 2010 at 10:26 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
@Richard: I am following your Twitter stream. Can’t wait to try the Android client out. Let me know if you need beta testers
Richard Barley
March 19, 2010 at 8:43 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Hi there,
Glad to hear you’re hoping for TweetDeck on your Hero. Just a heads-up that our Android client is well on its way and is looking very neat indeed so far
I think you’re going to love it. Keep an eye on my Twitter stream for more news over the next few weeks…
Richard Barley (@richardbarley)
TweetDeck Community Manager