Jimmy Gilmore – Writer – Director

Note: A few weeks ago a pub­lished a review of desk­top Twit­ter apps.

Desk­top Twit­ter apps are great but browser based clients are pretty darn robust these days too and cer­tainly wor­thy of your con­sid­er­a­tion. A col­league of mine was recently hav­ing prob­lems with her AIR app func­tion­ing prop­erly and switched to a browser one. She is now tweet­ing prob­lem free.

Browser apps can also have a lot of func­tion­al­ity built into them since they’re not lim­ited by an appli­ca­tion on your com­puter. Here are my top five:

Hoot­suite

Hoot­Suite is one of the most robust plat­forms for updat­ing and mon­i­tor­ing your social net­works. You can update Twit­ter, Linkedin, and Face­book from with the same browser win­dow. It also has its own link short­ener ow.ly that helps you track how many peo­ple are click­ing your links. And if you use their link short­ener, it will inte­grate statistics.

One of my favorite fea­tures is that it will let you sched­ule tweets for later. So if you want to Tweet about the blog arti­cle you just fin­ished at 2 AM, you can write the tweet then but auto­mat­i­cally send it later. Try and do that with a desk­top app.

Seesmic Web

Sees­imc Web is sim­i­lar to their desk­top appli­ca­tion but lives within a browser win­dow. It’s a rel­a­tively new offer­ing from them and doesn’t have as many func­tions as Hoot­suite or even their own desk­top app. But my guess it that it will get more fea­tures over time. So this is cer­tainly an app to watch.

CoTweet

CoTweet is a browser based with a focus on cor­po­rate users. The fea­tures are built around the idea of mul­ti­ple users. This means mul­ti­ple users can tweet to the same account and team mem­bers can even assign tasks to each other. CoTweet’s func­tions add up to a great Twit­ter CRM sys­tem but I wouldn’t rec­om­mend it for some­one who’s just tweet­ing for or by themselves.

Briz­z­ley

I dig Briz­zly. Unlike most of the solu­tions, Briz­zly actu­ally loads Twit­ter con­tent right into your browser win­dow. This makes it easy to scan Twit­ter pho­tos right in the same browser win­dow. Briz­z­ley also has a nice Face­book inte­gra­tion. Briz­zly doesn’t try to do every­thing, rather it focuses on just being easy to use.

Flock

An inter­est­ing way to use Twit­ter is when it’s inte­grated right into your browser with Flock. Flock does a lot of inter­est­ing things I’m not really sure I need my browser to do. Plus I’m kind of addicted to all my Fire­fox plug-ins.  But Flock is an inter­est­ing tool none-the-less. And hey, it might be some­thing you’d like to try.

OK, that’s my list. Did I leave some­thing impor­tant out? Let me know and I’ll add it.

Be Socia­ble, Share!

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