Well, seeing I’m on Windows 7 and already a Seesmic user, I’ve been tempted by all the noise about Seesmic desktop announced at Microsoft PDC and decided to give it a whirl. It’s YATC (Yet Another Twitter Client), but specifically has been written in WPF and is visually very compelling. Unfortunately it didn’t hit my sweet spot.

I normally use Thwirl, another Seesmic product to manage Twitter and it fits my needs perfectly. It sits at the side of my screen, just below my IM client (Digsby) and lets me keep an eye on my Twitter stream. Sessmit Desktop on the other hand is designed to take up lots of screen space, in order to give you access to multiple accounts, show your reply and private streams separately, etc. It’s an immersive experience, and that’s not really how I use Twitter. It may work for you though, so if you want to give it a spin, you can download it here

As you can see it’s quite similar in concept to Twhirl and it will be interesting to see Facebook users get on board with this concept. There are some interesting ideas as to why Seesmic decided to launch this as a seperate app instead of integrating it with Twhirl, but personally, my Twitter and Facebook account are linked through the Twitter Application for Facebook, so I’m not a prime user for the app. To tell you the truth, I just love the search facility in Twhirl so much I’m addicted to it now. You can specify a search term, example, “wireless alarm” and it will integrate the results directly into your Home stream, so that as soon as someone tweets something with that term, you’ll know about it. I wonder if the Facebook client does the same?