25 Most Popular Twitter Clients
Last night during my workshop, I promised attendees that I’d post a list of Twitter clients that they might want to check out. Simply put, a Twitter client is a program/applications that you install on your desktop, laptop, or phone so that you can use Twitter more effectively.
Although Twitter has a web-based interface, it isn’t really optimized for handling your stream in real time. A decent Twitter client, however, offers you a way to easily keep tabs on (1) everyone you follow, (2) @replies and ReTweets, (3) direct messages, (4) hashtag streams, and (5) any lists you might create.
Here’s a list of the 25 most popular Twitter clients as per all Twitter accounts tracked by @twitstat today, on June 15th, 2010. The complete list features 325 Twitter clients, but I figured that that was too many for anyone to digest.
Oh, and personally, I prefer TweetDeck.
| Rank | Client | % of users | Tweets/user | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (1) | web | 18.18 % | 3.56 |
| 2 | (2) | TweetDeck | 10.14 % | 5.25 |
| 3 | (3) | Twitter for iPhone | 8.22 % | 3.58 |
| 4 | (4) | foursquare | 5.65 % | 1.96 |
| 5 | (5) | twitterfeed | 4.58 % | 11.00 |
| 6 | (6) | HootSuite | 4.38 % | 4.28 |
| 7 | (7) | Seesmic | 2.98 % | 3.84 |
| 8 | (8) | Echofon | 2.78 % | 5.50 |
| 9 | (9) | TweetDeck | 2.20 % | 4.98 |
| 10 | (10) | TweetMeme | 2.00 % | 1.76 |
| 11 | (12) | API | 1.84 % | 14.19 |
| 12 | (13) | 1.58 % | 3.65 | |
| 13 | (14) | bitly | 1.56 % | 4.53 |
| 14 | (11) | Twitpic | 1.42 % | 2.08 |
| 15 | (16) | UberTwitter | 1.31 % | 3.95 |
| 16 | (15) | Twitterrific | 1.27 % | 3.37 |
| 17 | (18) | FriendFeed | 1.27 % | 8.75 |
| 18 | (17) | txt | 1.07 % | 2.25 |
| 19 | (20) | 1.07 % | 2.79 | |
| 20 | (21) | Mobypicture | 1.04 % | 2.06 |
| 21 | (25) | twidroid | 0.84 % | 3.95 |
| 22 | (23) | Ping.fm | 0.80 % | 3.08 |
| 23 | (27) | Twittelator | 0.78 % | 5.06 |
| 24 | (19) | Posterous | 0.76 % | 1.79 |
| 25 | (28) | Ping.fm | 0.69 % | 2.87 |
