# Can anyone recommend a good Twitter client for Windows?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 28, 2011, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-a-good-twitter-client-for-windows/590568 "2011-07-28T01:06:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![TheFifthYear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@TheFifthYear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFifthYear)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-a-good-twitter-client-for-windows/590568/1 "2011-07-28T01:06:49Z")

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I’m at a loss here. On OS X I have a twitter client I love (Tweetie…which seems to have been bought by Twitter and rebranded as…Twitter). Android and iOS both have a lot of good choices for Twitter clients.

So I’m using Windows right now and can’t find a Twitter client that isn’t awful. The website is not an option (I hate it). I’m unimpressed by Tweetdeck, to say the least. As far as I can tell, all the Windows twitter clients that use Adobe Air are terrible.

Is there an official Twitter client for Windows the way there is for OS X and the mobile platforms? Is there a good one I’ve missed? Help me out, Dope.

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**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-a-good-twitter-client-for-windows/590568/2 "2011-07-28T02:44:59Z")

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If there is, I haven’t found it. I use Trillian for Twitter “chat,” but otherwise just deal with the website.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-a-good-twitter-client-for-windows/590568/3 "2011-07-28T04:50:57Z")

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I use the website as well, with the _Tweetfilter_ plugin for Greasemonkey. It serves my purposes okay, though it’s still all a bit clunky.

I also don’t like Tweetdeck. I’d rather have something tiny and convenient I can sit in the corner of my screen, but still fully featured. Every attempt at that has been thwarted by Twitter itself shutting them down.