Posted on March 5, 2008 - by Justin Hartman
Impressive Twitter, Jaiku and Pownce application
Yesterday Scott posted a link on Twitter to a website called HelloTxt. I had seen the service before but I decided, on visiting the site again, to register an account and try the service out.
HelloTxt is a simple service that allows you to post a message directly to Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, Facebook and Plaxo at the same time. Now one has to ask why anyone would need this functionality but I find myself in a situation where I have an account with all of these sites and posting messages to each one individually is not only a mission but also not happening.
Over time Twitter has become my medium of choice simply because it has the highest adoption rate in South Africa for micro-blogging platforms. Personally I prefer Pownce over all these services but there are almost no people using the service that I know.
The HelloTxt service works brilliantly and does what it claims to however the down side to it is that you can only post messages from the HelloTxt website. This is a major issue for me as I prefer to post messages via Instant Messaging and after doing some research I found that there is no way to integrate this service into an IM client.
In a random set of events I stumbled upon Twhirl, the micro-blogging application to rule them all. Twhirl is primarily a Twitter application that allows you to post to the site and the latest version also includes integration with Jaiku and Pownce.
The Twhirl desktop application uses Adobe’s Integrated Runtime (AIR) that enables a cross-platform experience that is gaining big traction with developers and users. One AIR application I use religiously is the Google Analytics Reporting Suite and I’m sure there are many more cool applications out there.
Twhirl features multiple Twitter accounts and once you’ve added one you’re presented with a super-cool interface with full Twitter functionality including; replies, direct messages, favourites and re-tweeting.
By clicking on the settings icon on your Twitter window you can change various settings including adding your usernames for Jaiku and Pownce.
What is really smart about this integration is that replies to Twitter users (i.e. @username) are not posted to either Pownce or Jaiku. As a user of all three services I quickly became aware that replying to someone with the @ symbol is a unique Twitter way of doing things and Pownce evangelists hate it when you try and reply to them in this fashion. This is sure to keep your Pownce buddies happy.
I’m loving Twhirl and I’ve finally found a micro-blogging application that works the way I want it to.
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March 5, 2008
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This looks extremely nice, but how do I know I can trust them with my passwords?
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March 5, 2008
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true twhirl is a great app but its a shame I cant see the pownce stream inside it
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March 5, 2008
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This looks extremely nice, but how do I know I can trust them with my passwords?
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true twhirl is a great app but its a shame I cant see the pownce stream inside it
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March 6, 2008
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[...] for the layman in an easy to understand format. Today’s video is on Twitter and seeing as my post yesterday was all about the new Twitter application I found, Twhirl, I thought it would be good to post this [...]
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thanks for the info and sharing resources!
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thanks for the info and sharing resources!
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I have Twhirl and the Pownce desktop app running. I prefer to post to Twitter using Twhirl and that updates to Jaiku and Pulse through those services’ aggregation services and then post separately to Pownce using the desktop app or the site itself (it has those different ways to post …).
Twhirl is a great app, functional and elegant! At the moment I am also tending towards liking Pownce a bit more than anything else and I’d love to use it more often but there are more people I know using Twitter than anything else. That being said, I am not giving up on Pownce. I am going to keep working on where to position it in my social interaction space.
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I have Twhirl and the Pownce desktop app running. I prefer to post to Twitter using Twhirl and that updates to Jaiku and Pulse through those services' aggregation services and then post separately to Pownce using the desktop app or the site itself (it has those different ways to post …).
Twhirl is a great app, functional and elegant! At the moment I am also tending towards liking Pownce a bit more than anything else and I'd love to use it more often but there are more people I know using Twitter than anything else. That being said, I am not giving up on Pownce. I am going to keep working on where to position it in my social interaction space.
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[...] Some of us Twitter users (and I am a new active member) have been looking at ways of consuming our daily tweets most efficiently. I am really enjoying Twhirl, it just works, and is a very handy application (thx Justin for the link). [...]
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[...] update Twitter, but you can set it so that it updates Pownce and Jaiku at the same time (See : Impressive Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce application). Now, you can get FriendFeed updates as well. The UI is just so sleek! It is simple to leave a [...]