What is twhirl?
twhirl is a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform.
Some of twhirl’s features:
- runs on both Windows (2000/XP/Vista) and Mac OSX
- connects to multiple Twitter, laconi.ca, Friendfeed and Seesmic accounts
- displays notifications for new messages
- shorten long URLs (using digg.com, bit.ly, snurl, twurl or is.gd)
- cross-post your updates to Jaiku and many other sites like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and more via Ping.fm
- post images to TwitPic
- search tweets using Twitter Search and TweetScan, and follow topics in near-real time with saved searches
- automatically find tweets mentioning your @username
- record a video on Seesmic, and share it on twitter immediately
- get your seesmic updates in real-time using XMPP
- English spell checking
There are a lot more things twhirl can do to improve your experience, and it offers various configuration options to adapt to your personal needs.
twhirl takes twitter from cool to AWESOME!
Latest Changes
Version 0.9.2 (April 3, 2009)
- added https support for identi.ca
- using @username mentions returned from Twitter API
Version 0.9.1 (April 2, 2009)
- added digg.com short URL service
Version 0.9 (February 9, 2009)
- added saved searches on Twitter
- added searching for tweets mentioning @username
- added Ping.fm support
- added video recording
- added real-time updates for Seesmic
- added direct messages and favorites for laconi.ca and identi.ca
- added spell checking
Find out more about this release on our blog, or have a look at the changelog for changes in earlier versions.
Feedback
We want to know what you think about twhirl! Please send your feedback to info@twhirl.org or reply to @askseesmic on twitter.
Support
If you need help installing, configuring or using twhirl, always feel free to contact us on twitter by replying to @askseesmic.
Get twhirl
Install twhirl or update to the latest release by clicking on the automatic installer
Manual Installation
- Download and install Adobe AIR (if not already installed)
- Download and install the latest twhirl release