As you may have heard, there’s a new Twitter desktop client in town and its name is Tweetie. Formely an iPhone Twitter app, it was released today as Tweetie for Mac. It’s a feature-rich native client, not something built using Adobe AIR (like most other popular Twitter clients).

I’ll link out to some of the in-depth reviews I’ve read about Tweetie for Mac.

Tweetie for Mac: Better Web Worker Soluton?:

There are many ways to use Twitter. You can use the standard web interface or a desktop Twitter client like twhirl or tweetdeck. And then there is another way, web interfaces which add an extra layer of features not found on the default Twitter site.

Tweetree is one of them. You log into Tweetree just like you would at Twitter.com and use Twitter from there. What are the benefits using Tweetree, you might ask?

• Indented Messages. You can get a better context of what’s going on because you see the posts people are replying to.

Find it difficult to use Twitter at work because you’re afraid you’ll be discovered by your superiors or co-workers? SpreadTweet is something you’ll want to check out. This Adobe AIR Twitter client looks like Excel: nobody will suspect that you’re firing a tweet to your friend or favorite celeb while juggling your deadlines.

Twitlet may just be one of the fastest ways to send out tweets. It’s a javascript bookmarklet you can click to open a pop-up box to type in your messages. It’s faster than clicking to twitter.com or opening up your favorite twitter client. But as a speed tool it faces stiff competition from some other Firefox clients like TwitterFox (update with two clicks from status bar) and TwitterBar, which alows you to post to Twitter from Firefox’s address bar itself (very easy and quick).

If you’re bored of the usual Twitter clients and ways to update Twitter, you can try writing a tweet via email. Twittermail allows you to post to twitter by sending an email to an address they give you when you sign up for an account. Not only that, you can send a message with ‘friends’ or ‘f’ as the subject line to get the last 20 posts from all your friends. TwitterMail also allows you to schedule your posts by adding something like ‘+4 hours’ to your email subject line.

While it still doesn’t offer the ability to group friends yet (coming soon), the new twhirl release (0.9) is terrific. It’s a great Twitter client for many reasons, as Loic Le Meur excitedly points out in his blog post. Here are the new features:

1. Spellchecker (currently English only, can be deactivated in settings if you use Twhirl in other languages)
2. your Twitter @replies will display even if you are mentioned in the middle of a tweet
   don’t miss anyone quoting your name
3. share all your updates to all your favorite social software via Ping.fm support: Twhirl now posts to Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and more

Friendbar is a Firefox toolbar addon that displays a stream of text and photo updates from your Twitter and Facebook friends. After installing it and logging in, you’ll only see your Twitter friend updates but you can reply or retweet them using the toolbar. It also helps to create a tiny URL for the webpage you are viewing, if you’re interested in sending out some tweets.

It operates like a news ticker, displaying updates constantly. However, instead of slow scrolling motion, updates are changed through a fast swooshing motion, which can be very distracting when you have a lot of friends or people who update rapidly. A different choice of update change animations would be great.