Twitter clients are becoming useless

Not many people use Twitter.com to update their status these days. It’s all about convenience, plus the site is full of fail whales. There are several desktop clients to choose from. The sad part is, though, most Twitter clients suck.

There were once the top three for me: Twitterrific, Twhirl, and Tweetdeck. All three of those have changed this week, with new updates that now render them useless to me… well almost.

Twhirl was my favorite. It is slim, easy to use, and constantly up-to-date. However, since Seesmic acquired Twhirl in 2008, I can’t stand the thing. It now posts as “via Seesmic” instead of “via Twhirl” like it once used to. Yeah, so what if I am being picky. I do not want people thinking I am using Seesmic Desktop. I HATE that client. The other thing they changed in this update is that Twhirl now posts to yFrog instead of TwitPic. yFrog is a poor excuse of a service to post Twitter photos. Great job at failing that one, ImageShack. Uninstalling.

Twitterrific no longer lets you post photos at all. Uninstalling.

Tweetdeck is so bulky, and now they have added a MySpace column because you know that MySpace is reeling in the dough these days. /sarcasm. I am going to have to purchase a third monitor just to use Tweetdeck.

However, Tweetdeck is the most reliable, most up-to-date and the only one that has not gone to sh!t. So it’s what I use, for now.

And don’t even recommend Tweetie. That’s a whole new rant.