I've had nothing but trouble with these things. Yes, the idea of having the multiple columns of twitter feed categories and the URL shorteners built into the send bar is nice. But, stupid things keep happening with mine.
First, there was Tweetdeck. I really liked it, especially that submarine noise it makes when a new tweet comes in. But, my relationship with Tweetdeck began to go south with the iPhone app locked me out. This was less annoying than when the first version of ETrade Mobile for iPhone would shut the phone down, but nevertheless irksome. Then, after upgrading to Windows 7, Tweetdeck on my laptop decided to lock me out completely. I tried a couple of uninstall/reinstalls, but Tweetdeck will also say that my Twitter handle is taken and/or I don't have the right password. While the former is true, the latter is not as I know exactly what the password is. Thus thoroughly annoyed, I switched to Seesmic.
It wasn't the cute raccoon logo which sold me, but rather CNET's recommendation of this application. For the most part, it functions well. Sometimes it freezes up if I turn it on after my computer has been in sleep mode for a while. Also, sometimes the bit.ly URL function does weird things. These are minor problems. What's really annoying is that it is inserting feeds of people I'm not following. And, they seem to be porn links, or bad bands, ridiculous people, or possibly some combination of all of these things. Since there is a commonality, I'm assuming that someone has figured out how to trick Seesmic into inserting their non-sense into Seesmic organized feeds without the consent to the Seesmic user. It would be nice if Seesmic can figure out how to put the kybosh on this.
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