Twitter apps on Adobe Air

Twitter is starting to buck a trend, everywhere you go it seems every other blog post is about Twitter, and with the official launch of Adobe Air, all sorts of apps have been coming out, here are a some of the best Twitter apps currently out using the Adobe Air platform.

Twhirl is probably the most popular Air application on Twitter, it has just been purchased by seesmic and the latest version (0.8) now supports friendfeed

Full feature list

• Connect to multiple Twitter and Friendfeed accounts
• Notifications on new tweets
• Shorten long using snurl, twurl or is.gd
• cross-post updates to Pownce & Jaiku
• Post images to TwitPic
• Search tweets using TweetScan
• Timeline filtering
• Multi Colour schemes

Snitter has some really nice touches but doesn’t have as many options as twhirl, no support for friendfeed or updating to multiple micro blogging platforms yet, but it’s very smooth, and has some nice custom features.

Feature List

• Auto-updates tweet list
• Highlights messages sent to you via @ syntax with chirp sound
• Clear current list of tweets
• Displays last time it tried to request an update
• View 20 most recent items in your timeline
• View 20 most recent replies
• View 20 most recent direct messages
• View and filter friends list by name and screen name
• View and filter followers
• Links to easily @reply and direct message users
• Keyboard shortcuts for easy access
• Add favorites tab and allow tweets to be set as favorite
• Auto update notification
• Audible notifications of new tweets
• Will remember previous windows size and location
• Auto-login

Also every screen name in Snitter can have a user stylesheet assigned to it. You can access it from the options scrren and clicking on the edit button. Changes to the CSS will be applied immediately.

Spaz was one of the first Air applications that I used for Twitter, and I quite liked it, very simple and easy to use and it’s Open source

Feature List

• Open Source - Software using a new BSD-style (source available here)
• Written in pure Javascript, XHTML and CSS. Using the powerful jQuery Javascript framework
• No ads
• Markdown syntax support
• Multiple themes
• User defines CSS
• Minimize to systray with optional auto-hiding and showing
• Adding favorite messages and deleting sent messages
• Event sounds using the Tokyo Train Station soundset by Dominik Dimaano
• Auto-refresh timeline
• Quicklinks to sent direct messages or replies to any user
• Directory listings of users you’re following, and your followers.
• Debugging tools

Birdy 1.0 is a little blue bird that sits on your desktop and tweets your Twitters, It also lets you post to Twitter by clicking on the bird.

Twibble is, yes you’ve guessed it another Twitter app. The main feature of this application is the cover flow style display of your tweets, which looks very nice

Feature List

• Support for several profiles
• Integrated timeline
• Location Awareness: you can see with a single click where your friends are in Google Maps. twibble desktop also understands GPS positions sent by twibble mobile
• Cover flow view: In addition to the standard list view you can display your tweets in an iTunes style coverflow
• Automatic Updates
• Keyboard Shortcuts

Posty is a one for all app, that lets you post to Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce and Tumblr.

Twinja is another online application, same features as above, nothing to stand this one out from the croud.

Alert Thingy was made for FriendFeed but you can also send and receive tweets on Twitter and post photos to flickr from the comfort of your desktop.

If you have any more cool twitter apps for Adobe Air, then please add them in the comments.