Twitterrific, a Love and Hate Relationship

Besides the web user interface, I’ve used a lot of Twitter client. Mostly I used Adobe Air popular twitter clients like Twhirl, TweetDeck, or DestroyTwitter. Love them all. I tend to use multiple client, yeah I’m usually got bored when using only one method of Tweeting.

Why the Air apps you ask? well in my daily activities I used multiple platforms, Windows for office works, Mac for everything else. So multi platform solutions using Air brought me constant user interface for those clients that I mention above.

The only platform-based desktop client that I used as frequent as the above Air apps is Twitterrific, one of the simplest twitter client for Mac. Twitterrific is a simple yet a nice client. (You can see their nice features on their homepage) I use their latest 3.1 version.

The thing is, although it’s merely a simple (though powerful) client, it has it’s flaw. A flaw that I wish the developers could fix in the future versions. These are some of my .. I don’t know, rant? Probably like a wishlist about Twitterrific:

• Please, put a retweet button. Retweet is a common feature on a twitter client. Many users are using retweet in their daily tweeting activities. So it should be there.
• Fix the favorite button. The “Add this tweet as favorite” button doesn’t seem to work at all. That’s a very minus point for you, twitterrific. Please fix it, this is very vital.
• I know you probably wants us to see our friends as personal, but sometimes showing their full name rather than their username is a bit confusing. When I follow new user, I prefer remembering his username. Say for instance I follow a @johntheawesome, I probably wouldn’t notice that his full name is Jonathan Walker Davis Jr. So username info is important too.
• Last one, a friend of mine wishes a separate replies and dm’s tab. But probably that makes Twitterrific less simple, right?

I still have big faith on you, Twitterrific. Please don’t let me down.