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Seesmic: My Fav Twitter App

I usually follow my Twitter feeds from my mobile device, but I recently installed Seesmic on my desktop and I really like this app.

Previous desktop twitter apps I found frustrating to use. Tweekdeck for instance I found very hard on the eyes. And for some reason a lot of these apps don't let you resize the text, which is beyond frustrating because looking at a sea of 10 point font gives you a headache.

Seesmic however lets you change the background to white and increase text size so that it's a pleasure to use. You also get little 'bing' notifications every time a new tweet comes in (an option you can obviously turn off).

It integrates LinkedIn if you want, as well as FaceBook and Foursquares. 


Anyway, best socmed app I've come across and definitely worthwhile downloading.

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  1. UnknownSeptember 28, 2011 at 11:10 AM

    Rob,

    Thank you for the great post on Seesmic! I am biased, but I agree!

    We appreciate your support and hope you will stay tuned for more great changes coming soon.

    Best,
    Liza Sperling | @lizsperling| Seesmic

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  2. rob mcleanSeptember 28, 2011 at 1:31 PM

    My pleasure.

    Seesmic is saving my eyes... I'm sure having to squint with those other clients cannot be good for your eyes.

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