Review of Twitterific 2.0 - Twitter Client for Mac OS X
We were looking for a better way to update via Twitter and thought we would try out the new release of Twitterific version 2.0. From when we first installed it we noticed the effort they put into the classy interface design and it felt right at home along with our other mac applications. Install and setup was easy and all we had to do was enter our Twitter account information and it instantly hooked up and got our "tweets".


Preferences

The preferences screen is as expected and lets you change some settings in Twitterific. You can decide to view your friends list or the public page, the frequency of tweets refresh, set notifications (visual and sound), window preferences an set a hot key to toggle the window. Screenshot below.

The Main Window

The Main Twitterific window is super easy to use and you can see your own tweets as well as your friend's. On each tweet dialouge there are three small icons that let you 1. goto that user's twitter page on twitter.com. 2. goto that user's personal webpage and 3. you can mark that tweet as a favorite. Below the tweets is
an area for you to update directly to your account at Twitter. It counts down the number of characters you have left (messages are 140 characters max). A cool feature is that if you enter a long URL, it gets turned into a short url automatically. On the left of the text entry box there are a couple of buttons, home icon goes to the Twitter website, there is a wrench icon that opens the preferences and there is a refresh button. Another cool thing is that the Mac OS X spell check works inside of Twitterific (as you can see in the screenshot below). If you mis-spell a word just right click it and select the correct spelling as usual.

Stability

Overall Twitterific was very stable and has not crashed in the last 3 days that we have been using it. There has been periodic loss of connection but we are not sure if that is due to the Twitter service, Twitterific or our Internet connection.

Conclusion

We are happy with Twitterific and will keep using it as our Mac OS X client. The only other thing we wish it had is the ability to see your list of friends and favorites like on the twitter web page. Another bonus would be the ability to link XML and RSS feeds to your Twitter account directly from Twitterific. Other than that, congrats on a nice clean and simple to use app from the Icon Factory. We look forward to future releases. Twitterific!

Here is a list of Twitterific 2.0 features from their website:

* Clean, concise UI with small desktop footprint
* Auto refreshing at user defined intervals
* Highlights tweets that are unread
* Auto show / hide when new tweets arrive
* Control over window layering and priority
* Single click access to user profile pages
* Switch between friend and public tweets easily
* Keyboard shortcuts for list navigation and more
* Menubar app that doesn't take up Dock space
* Audio notification for new tweets
* Hotkey to show / hide tweets