by Janet Fouts (follow her at @jfouts).
DestroyTwitter?
What kind of name is that for a helper app? Hmm, let’s take a look at this new Adobe Air app for Twitter. Because it’s an Air app, it runs on multiple platforms and outside the browser, freeing up your browser for other work. The UI looks a lot like TweetDeck in layout. You can choose from three different “canvases” displayed in columns:
- Home, Replies and (Direct) Messages
- Search, Saved (Favorites), and Sent
- Preferences, Account, People
Each pane is pretty much self explanatory for most Twitter users, even though they’ve given them slightly different names.. The account pane shows your profile information and the people pane shows user information when you click on an avatar, similarly to Tweetdeck. Unlike Tweetdeck you can’t create custom columns for groups, probably the most important feature in TweetDeck in my book.
The preferences pane is where the best features are. You can fine-tune your preferences to open the app at start-up, manage the size of the workspace and how many tweets you want to show at once, or make the font size larger (essential for me, the font when it first launches is unbelievably small). In these days of limkited API calls to Twitter, you can set how often you want DestroyTwitter to ping Twitter for new Tweets and you can set different rates for search and messages, so you can ration your 100 calls to the API per hour based on how you use Twitter. Like the new release of TweetDeck, you can also see how many calls to the API you’ve made, and if you’ve gone over limit, when you’ll be able to call again.
All in all it’s a slick app with some thoughtful features and a very web two oh design. Will DestroyTwitter replace Tweetdeck on my desktop? Not yet. It won’t replace Twhirl either. At least not until it adds a multi-account feature anyway. That said, not bad for an app that was realeased with only “ten days of design and development”. Wow. Look for interesting things from this team.
@NateDesmond
Pretty nifty! I have only used online apps so far, but now I might consider downloading some.
Great post! Stumbled it!
Thanks,
Nate
@getinmoneywise
A great breakdown of what Destroytwitter is.It is by far the best twitter client i have used out of twhirl and tweetdeck.May be it does not have enough features when compared to the other players,it sure packs a punch when it comes to resource management.It is the lightest of them all and does not hang up on u every now and then.
A very handy and minimalistic app for sure
@reinhardtgallow
This tool looks pretty darn nifty I must say myself. I just downloaded the betaprerelease.
Thanks!
Reinhardt
@capebretoner
This is the app that I am using exclusively now. I tried tweetdeck but couldn’t get used to the navigation between panels. It wasn’t as smooth and intuitive as I would like.
DesroyTwitter is slick, they need to include multiaccount and the sorting function of Tweetdeck to be the best-of-the-best. For now I have one account and only 200 followed so it works very well for me.
@jonmreid
I’m guessing the [TOOL REVIEW] marker is just a tag you normally use… but it made me laugh, because this time it sounded like a disclaimer: “No, I don’t mean it literally!”
So far my favorite client is the less well-known Spaz. I like it for its single-paned simplicity.
@whawkins
I have uninstalled TweetDeck and replaced it with DestroyTwitter.I find TweetDeck to cumbersome after using DT for a week now. It’s more compact and seems more flexible in how you can choose the layout. I prefer the noise it makes too compared to TD.
I agree though that it would be good to have a multi-account feature.
@hectorhenry17
For real its a really rung name of a app that supost to help you out whit problems that you would have in the web page. funny
I gona take a try. :d
@mikesalway
I’ve been using Tweet Deck but just installed Twhirl to try it out. There’s definitely things I like about it – such as multiple account management. Something sorely missing from TweetDeck.
But using Twhirl, I really miss the “groups” feature that TweetDeck has. There’s just too much “noise” coming through the main stream without the ability to filter using groups.
So I’m torn right now.
@johnsamuel
DestroyTwitter has a pretty Good interface. Thanks for introducing this. I normally use TweetDeck to Tweet. I like it because of its multi-column interface. I tried Twhirl sometime back, but it lacks the feature.
Also the Title of the post should be ‘DestroyTwitter’, I mean the words shouldn’t have a space in between. When I first saw the title (obviously just the first two words), I wondered how come such a post appear in TwiTip. Anyway nice post
The title threw me off at first but after reading the post it looks pretty neat!
@sharonfoong
Yes, can’t wait for DT to support multi-accounts !
Destroy Twitter is awesome. I have tried at least 4 other apps and have always come back to DT. It is gorgeous and simple.