Twhirl is a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform.

Adobe’s Air platform will mean downloading additional tools from adobe as this is a desktop client and not a standard web based client.  Unfortunately this seems like a lot of overhead developers producing software for desktops may want to use it for cross compatibility but you can expect that the curve for these applications to be steep and products few and hard to find. This is not to say Adobe lacks skills in desktop software development but even Microsoft has problems organizing their handful of compilers into structures that will provide quick and easy development experiences.

With that said its not the compiler its the product within.

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 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.

For more information visit

http://www.twhirl.org