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Twhirl Updates: Will You Dump TweetDeck?

Source: Mashable!

Jan 24, 2009

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Die-hard Twhirl fanatics (like me) can celebrate the start of the weekend with a fresh new update to the desktop Twitter app. Albeit just a preview release, Twhirl v.0.8.8f is here and includes a few extra gems for Twitter, Seesmic, and Ping.fm fans to make the most of the popular Adobe AIR desktop client.

The new release adds four additional goodies that might make users who still haven’t fallen for Twhirl’s biggest, and recently funded competitor, TweetDeck, rejoice. We think the new additions make Twhirl even more useful, all the while simple, fast, and less overwhelming than the other giant client.

So what’s new? In addition to being able to post to Ping.fm, Twhirl also now lets users record Seesmic videos and replies from the client, and also ensures that you won’t miss a single tweet mentioning your Twitter username. So instead of just getting replies that have @username at the beginning of the tweet, you’ll now receive all replies with your @username regardless of whether it’s at the beginning, middle, or end. Hooray!