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A look at Seesmic Desktop Client

It seems Today is the day of twitter desktop clients. A quick glance at some top twitter searches show that tweetdeck and seesmic desktop is the topic of tweets today

One year after the purchase of twitter client, thwirl, seemsic has released the “seesmic twitter client”. The client has just released and you can get one here. Later today the most popular twitter desktop client , tweetdeck is to release its new version.

So what’s the verdict on Seesmic desktop?

While the seemic client is young there are some worrying issues. Here are some of them;

1) The way the tabs, (such as replies, DM’s etc) work is confusing and overly complicated. There is no need to complicate something as simple as tabs.

2) I find myself clicking on things left right and centre to get something done. It’s not as natural and as easy flowing as tweetdeck.

3) While I know the multiple accounts feature is going to a big plus for a lot of people it is too complicated. I find myself clicking on my second account and seeing nothing happening.

4) With tweetdeck you can view people’s profile and to follow people you click on their avatar and choose “follow”. None of this is available on seesmic. If you click on a user name you get nothing. However, they have a “userlist” feature. But I can’t imagine any reason you’d have one, maybe to put your favourite tweeters in the one place but besides from that I can’t see a use for it.

It seems to me that tweetdeck is structured in the best possible way; Simple.

Rival clients, in an effort to distinguish themselves from tweetdeck and other rivals, modify and complicate simple features that should not be tinkered with. (so not to look like a direct copy)

While seesmic offers multiple users, userlists and webcam pic upload it fails to hit home on the basic feature that tweeters want from their desktop client; ease of use.

Later today we’ll be looking at the new version of tweetdeck. Stay tuned!