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18 May 2010 @ 02:45 pm
Desktop Twitter Widget/Client?  
I'm looking for a Windows widget that will give me a pop-up alert for new Twitter posts. Bonus points if I can configure it to behave differently for different lists.

Suggestions? Recommendations? What do you use?

ETA: Yes, I realize most of you get alerts on your phones. I'm a Luddite.
 
 
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[identity profile] casett.livejournal.com on May 18th, 2010 09:43 pm (UTC)
I think I am even more "luddy" than you. I read tweets in my Google reader that aggregates them until I feel like reading. That seems just wrong.

Don't have a plan that would allow me to get them on my phone but I don't even text so why bother? :D
Mish: Misc -- Different Just Be[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on May 18th, 2010 09:49 pm (UTC)
:) I don't have a text plan on my phone, either. Back when I made that decision, it was a pretty expensive option and I couldn't see me pressing tiny buttons repetitively to send text messages.

These days, my brother has unlimited talk+text on a plan that's cheaper than the limited minutes /no text plan I'm currently locked into. I will, eventually, get a new plan and one assumes a new phone. For now, though, I just want something that essentially does for Twitter what Thunderbird does for my e-mail: it gives me a small pop-up notice when I get a new message. Any technology that requires me to open a service regularly is going to fail for me. I have Google Reader and I don't think I've looked at it since...November? I haven't looked at Facebook since...a couple of months ago? I have many outlets in which to be absent. :)

Edited 2010-05-18 09:50 pm (UTC)