News: Personal Tech
First Look: rTweeter
21.07.2009
Twitter is now part of most of our lives and because we use it on a daily basis it has become a tool for sharing lots of things including links, maps and sometimes, because 140 characters isn't enough, a longer message.
RTweeter, developed by Irish web developer Stuart Manning, is in early stages still but does all these via the rTweeter website, and his downloadable Adobe Air app for Mac, PC and Unix machines is a Twitter desktop client with a few extras.
The rTweeter desktop app is a regular Twitter client in that it gives you a scrolling timeline of people you are following and interacting with but the difference is that it doesn't use up the same amount of system resources as some desktop clients seem to do.
This is a big plus for me: while Tweetdeck works fine on my iMac it dramatically slowed down my XP HP machine. This smaller memory footprint was the raison d'etre for rTweeter.
Aside from this you can also create groups for certain Twitterers you follow as well as schedule your tweets for a point in time anywhere between one minute and 24 hours in the future.
Back to the rTweeter site though: it is handy that there is one site for helping you create long tweets, add map locations and URLs but this site also provides metrics on what you're tweeting and the views you get. Neat.
It's definitely looking good for an early product and as Manning says on his website the current tools only represent a small proportion of services that have been developed, so keep your eyes peeled.
By Marie Boran
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