Adium Adds Twitter Support: Is ‘DM’ The New ‘IM’?
At its core, Twitter is a simple command-line service — look past all the pretty graphical user interfaces and all you are doing is typing some words and hitting “Enter.” So perhaps the perfect platform for Twitter (besides a mobile phone) is your friendly, neighborhood instant messenger client. After all, it’s where you already live, and a short message is a short message is a short message. Adium added Twitter support Monday and while I’ve only been playing with it for a few hours it feels very much exactly the way Twitter should work. The IM interface is by definition a frictionless way to send short bursts of text. But there’s more. Your normally-unwieldy timeline appears as short messages from everyone on your follow list and updates dynamically at user-specified intervals. Each Tweet has (a frankly ugly) set of icons which allow you to do all the expected things with a Tweet: RT, favorite, etc. A sidebar toggle shows you who among those you follow have sent a message — a handy re
