Yesterday I couldn’t get Snitter (my new favorite Twitter client by Jonathan Snook) installed and today I’m happily pumping out tweets from Snitter.
It knocks the socks off of handling Twitter through Gtalk or Pidgin and managed to edge out the other desktop clients I’ve tried.
It turned out that uninstalling AIR and reinstalling AIR was not enough. I had to do the uninstall / reinstall 3 times before Snitter would install. The problem appears to be one with AIR rather than with Snitter.
Jonathan has built a ton of cool features into the client and one of my favorite is the the ability to reply to a tweet, send a direct message to a tweets author or mark a tweet as a favorite just by mousing over the authors icon.
Rex Dixon (sorry Rex but my Pownce client is still working) got it right yesterday when he sent this tweet to Scot Duke:
@MrBusinessGolf Get Snitter! You’ll like it, makes more sense
Jonathan has done a great job with Snitter and was very fast replying to me after I sent him an email whining that I couldn’t get Snitter to install.
Now I have one last request with regards to Snitter. When I click on a link I’d love it to open in my default browser as opposed to opening up in Internet Explorer.
Paul,
Snitter is a pretty cool app. Rex Dixon and I have been playing around with it. The Twitter app on Netvibes works similar to the Snitter, but does not have the reply feature which has aggravated me the most about Twitter. Now if I could get Snitter on my Netvibes I would be in Business Golf heaven.
btw – I did get Pownce working again, I had to install their AIR which actually was dated earlier (older version) than the one Snitter uses. How is that possible? Don’t ask, but both the desktop Pownce client as well as Snitter work great.
Rex