In the crowd of Twitter applications out there, which application is the grooviest one of all? For Windows users, I’d have to say – Seesmic Look. Obviously, I am going to recommend you to use it at least one. But with a word of caution – You’ll fall in love with it!
It is the slick user interface (UI) of Seesmic Look that gives it an overtly sexy feel. Trust me, I have used all Twitter applications coming my way since the past couple of years now, and this one has the most stylish way of treating everything that a user does. Be it typing a tweet or replying to someone – you have to love the unobtrusive, readable, and translucent character count. Your Timeline appears under the Social tab. Gotta love the Speech Bubble like ‘tweet-meant.’
I love the ‘Interest’ tab in particular. It lists some of the most popular interest areas viz. News, Sports, Entertainment, Celebrity, Music, Tech, etc. Let us go one level deeper and click on Celebrity. What do we have there? On the Timeline it shows the latest tweets of some of the most popular celebrities on Twitter; these celebrities are now displayed as a list, in place of the original Interests list. You can then click on any of the celebrities handle to view his/her timeline. Best part? I am not following ANY of these celebrities to see what they are tweeting about. The same logic applies to all other twitter handles in all other Interest areas. Another cool part – you can click on any tweet that appears on the timeline, at any point in time, and instantly Retweet it, Reply to it, Mention it, Favorite it, and so on by using the handy buttons on the right panel.
I’ve tried my best to make sense above. But, there are other Tabs like Trends, Favorites, Channels, and Search that one has to check out. To sum it all up together, Seesmic Look is something one needs to experience to actually know what it is about. And sweet (and powerful) is what it is! Like the makers say, Seesmic Look is a unique way to immerse yourself in the real-time web.
Cheers,
The Frugalist
(Guest Blogger)
OK, confused now.
Should I be using seesmic desktop or this ? what’s the advantages of one over the other?
@Mike: Ok, first things first. Seesmic Desktop is an Adobe Air Application which is platform independent; whereas Seesmic Look is only meant for Windows.
As for your confusion: To put it simply, Seesmic Desktop is recommended for the power-user. Meaning: the ones who want to handle multiple twitter accounts at the same time; the ones who want to see the timeline, replies, mentions, and direct messages of one/more accounts in one screen, albeit lots of panels. Of course, there is the pop up notification available in Seesmic Desktop which isn’t available in Seesmic Look.
For the average Twitter user, who handles one twitter account at a time, I’d recommend Seesmic Look. Seesmic Look is for a rich experience of the real time web. It is suitable for someone who likes to see one thing at a time, while all other options are one click away. And Seesmic Desktop is all about the slick experience and the effects in which the tweets are displayed et al.
I’d say, if you use one twitter account, Seesmic Look is a much more intuitive and pleasing to the eyes experience. In fact, if you want to go even more simple with the Twitter Application you use; which has style as well as utility, you can give a shot to ‘Seesmic For Windows’ too. But know that ‘Seesmic For Windows’ is a Silverlight application and in the very early beta stage; so it has a lot of features which are ‘coming soon’.
Let me know if you have any more doubts or queries, I’ll be glad to throw some more light on these matters.
Useful and interesting one. Thanks. 🙂