Twhirl 0.8.8. Now Available
Finally approaching release, I was able to get a beta of the new version of Twhirl and compare it with another tool I like TweetDeck. (You can get on the beta of 0.8.8. here). Already today, in about 12 hours 2000 (yes, 2000!) from more than 30 countries have downloaded the preview version of our new Twhirl.
For a comparison of Twhirl and TweetDeck, this article is pretty balanced in it’s 
side by side analysis, even though in the end (prior to the enhancements in 0.8.8., Twhirl still was the leader).
Obviously today, was a busy day for my friend and founder of Twhirl, Loic Le Meur and the whole team @seesmic.com and yet he was able to send me this video message of how it went today before he boarded a plane to Europe. You are the man, Loic!
Some of my favorite new features are the integration with Ping.fm and how it will update (through Ping.fm) my social media networks like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc, even seamlessly sending them a video via Seesmic to all the social services you setup. (very cool!) Additionally, one of the 140 character parameters we live with is the need to shorten URLs. Now, 0.8.8. now provides even more options to do this, using is.gd, snurl.com twurl.nl and bit.ly making this even more handy. They have also setup a dedicated section at http://twhirl.uservoice.com so that you can add feature requests, report bugs
and the best is this: you can vote on the feature you would like the most. Yes, you are in control and we love it don’t we!?! Great job guys.
For a full featured tour of the new version, “the Scobleizer” (Half Moon Bay’s one and only), Robert Scoble has a very cool video where he shows the new Twhirl features.
Enjoy!
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