Tweetr

If you're the type of person who likes to keep in touch with the latest news from favorite online sources, even if your work doesn't have anything to do with this, then Twitter is most likely one of your go-to places.

Tweetr is an unofficial desktop client for Twitter. It's ideal for users who would like to read messages, post tweets, and receive notifications. It's particularly useful for excluding the need of a web browser since there's always the risk of unexpected hangs or crashes right when you're in the middle of scrolling your Twitter feed.

Tweetr gets installed painlessly, thanks to the fact that there are no special settings involved at this stage. It actually mimics the look of a classical instant messenger, not because of the graphics (everything is up to date in this department) but because of the long, vertical window which kind of reminds us of the good old days of Yahoo Messenger.

We're not sure if this has something to do with us or the application itself (we're betting on the second option, though), but it's not possible to increase the window size, not even by dragging its corners or margins. On the bright side, this keeps things on the simpler side, as you can move the slim window from one side to another to be able to get it out of your way while working within another program.

After logging in with your Twitter account, you can scroll the home page, write comments, retweet, mark favorites, copy links to a tweet, send links as direct messages, view trends, perform searches, view notifications, and add new friends.

Sadly, Tweetr is not generous with the customization features since there are none. According to the developer, it was supposed to toggle dark and light mode using Ctrl+D and Ctrl+L, respectively, but this didn't work at all in our case (we're stuck in light mode).

All aspects considered, we strongly feel that Tweetr needs more work in order to become a reliable Twitter client for Windows, like resolving the previously mentioned issues and adding support for multiple profiles, to name a couple of examples. There's also a counterpart available for Mac users.