For those who are looking for a desktop client software for twitter, your prayer’s have been answered.

Introducing TWHIRL, a desktop twitter client, based on the Adobe AIR platform.

Some of twhirl’s features:

• runs on both Windows (2000/XP/Vista) and Mac OSX
• automatically fetches your friends’ status updates, as well as replies and direct messages for you, into an all-in-one timeline
• color-coding different types of messages
• connecting to multiple Twitter accounts
• sys tray / dock icon support
• visual and audible notifications on new tweets, configurable and with preview
• view, add and remove favorites
• shorten long URLs (using snurl.com or is.gd)
• automatically check for twhirl updates
• changeable color schemes
• search public tweets (powered by terraminds)
• timeline filtering
• localization (English, German, Italian, Spanish)
• NEW: cross-post to Pownce and Jaiku
• NEW: marks new tweets as unseen.

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