Twittering is a big deal in “Web 2.0″.  Everyone is using it, from Barack Obama to Kevin Rose to Me.  But in the past few months, my twitter page has been flooded with people spamming their twitter clients.  Now, I have kept an open mind, but what the fuck is going on!! I will talk about 3 different twitter cliants which I have used, I have used several others but now I will only talk about these 3.  They are Twhirl, Hahlo, and ping.fm.

First up is Twhirl.  Twhirl is on the adobe air platform, meaning it is a program on your desktop.  It can be found here, and it is free. I have used it for 3 months, but I stopped using it a month ago.  Do not get me wrong, it is an excellent program, especially since it is free, but i had many problems with it.  First off, it kept getting overloaded with tweets, which made me very very frustrated.  Second, it almost never loaded the first time, I had to keep clicking the icon…then after a few tries it opens.  Twhirl is a great twitter cliant, but it was not for me, but I recommend you try it.  I would give it a 92%.

Next up is Hahlo.  This site is basicly like the twitter page, but a way nicer user-interface.  You can go here to test it out. I used Hahlo for about a month, but then, like twhirl, I stopped using it. I first got hahlo on my rader by Chris Pirillo.  I tried it out, and it was terrific!…for the first month.  As of the last few weeks, the replies has not been working, and some other features did not work.  If you want a good twitter cliant online, with a nice user-interface, choose hahlo.  I am going to give Hahlo a 84%

Last is ping.fm.  I heard about this by, again, Chris Pirillo.  He made a video about it, which can be found here, and I thought, OMG that is ingenious! You can post to twitter, pownce, jaiku (which twhirl can do), and many a many more.  I got an invite, then got it all ready.  I had ten different sited synced to my account. I signed up for gtalk bot.  It was all working smoothly..except two things.  One, I was using Opera, so the site was not very compatable with the browser.  Second, I could not see my replies and friends’ posts on twitter, pownce, and plurk.  ping.fm is great if have more than two site you update to a lot.  I give ping.fm a 86%.

Right now I am using the twitter site.  I am hoping some other GOOD twitter cliants would show up.  I have my hopes on  TweetDeck.  I have heard good things about it. In the mean time, this is Bryan, saying see ya later.