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Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows you to ’spread’ and read other users’ updates, which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

Here I list out the most interesting and practical Twitters apps and I hope you’ll find them useful. As you can tell, there are many different Twitter apps that you can use on your Mac (we will get to windows based apps next time).  They all offer different advantages – some have support for multiple services, some let you shorten URLs, and some have multiple tabs for you to see different tweet streams.

If you find a different app that you like and want to share with everyone, let us know in the comments and I’ll post it as an update!  Adobe air suggestion will be posted next time.

01. NatsuLion

Developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit
License: Free
iPhone/Touch: available
NatsuLion is a simple Twitter client for Mac OS X.

02. Mac Lounge

Developed by: Goose Apps
License: Free
iPhone/Touch: available
Lounge is the place to meet your Twitter friends, wherever you are.

03. Twitterrific

Released by: Iconfactory
License: Free (with inline ads)
iPhone/Touch: Available
Twitterrific is a fun application that lets you both read and publish posts or “tweets” to the Twitter community website. The application’s user interface is clean, concise and designed to take up a minimum of real estate on your Mac’s desktop.

04. Canary

Released by: Ocean Road Software
License: Free
iPhone/Touch: n/a
Canary is a Twitter client that is beautifully designed, fun to use and has everything you’ll ever need. Canary’s user interface is slick and straightforward and helps you do what matters most fast and easily. It does more than you would expect it to and the best part: it’s free with no ads.

05. Socialite (previously known as Eventbox)

Released by: Realmac Software
License: Free

06. Bluebird

Released by: 13ptBold
License: Free
iPhone/Touch: n/a
Bluebird is now 64-bit on Intel and Growl supported.

07. pwitter

Released by: koroshiya
License: Free
iPhone/Touch: n/a
Pwitter is a simple and elegant Twitter client for Mac, that is written in Cocoa. The application runs on only Leopard at the moment.

08. Nambu

Released by: Nambu
License: Free
iPhone/Touch: Available
Nambu is the free native desktop Twitter client for OS X with multiple account support in the real OS X look and feel we all know and love.

09. Tweetie

“ Tweetie’s interface is so clean you would think it came straight out of Apple headquarters.”

Released by: Atebits LLC
License: Free
iPhone/Touch: available
Tweetie is free to download and try for as long as you want. It’s full-featured and has some of the most beautiful ads around (courtesy of Fusion Ads). You can register to keep your timeline ad-free for only $19.95.

10. Beak

Released by: Mike Rundle
License: Free
iPhone/Touch: n/a
An innovatie new Twitter client exclusively for the Mac.

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