In the last week, we’ve seen numerous Twitter applications hit the streets. Power Twitter currently stands as one of the top to beat.
Power Twitter is a powerful plug-in for FireFox that moves many disparate services and capabilities into one central location – right in your browser. This is almost a complete Twitter experience for the general and even power use, one that Twitter itself should provide.
First, Power Twitter provides an at-a-glance Twitter history view for every person in your timeline. Second, search functionality is built in, so that keywords and hashtags are immediately viewable without opening a seperate window. And, @replies functions as it should. It reveals not only those tweets that begin with @yourusername, but now also include every tweet with @yourusername, regardless of where it’s positioning in the message. Similar to TweetTree, content linked to in sites such as Flickr, YouTube, and TwitPic appear in the timeline – again saving you time from having to jump outside of Twitter.
Overall, Power Twitter is a seamless experience. Install it, hit Twitter.com as you normally would, and you’ll notice the new and improved capabilities. Perhaps Twitter should acquire the Power Twitter team for building a necessary, and overdue layer, much in the same way that Summize filled a previous gap.
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Discussion
Good in theory, potentially bad in practice. Writeups and descriptions of features have all been great. Downloaded “Power” Twitter and it slowed down my Firefox so much (“not responding” etc) that I immediately uninstalled it. I am not rocking tons of add-ons, programs, or anything. Don’t need to search or see YouTube links in-page that badly. Fail 1.0 IMHO.
Interesting Mark. I’m not experiencing that problem. Anyone else?
Still loving Tweetdeck, is this an improvement over that? Thanks.
Power Twitter crippled Twitter for me: although it gave the appearance of publishing my tweets, none of them posted for the several hours I had it installed. There were rumors of a lag in posting, so I gave it another hour to see how long the delay was; but still no tweets were published. After I uninstalled it, Twitter went back to normal…I still lost all those tweets, though.
I agree with Mark: Power Twitter = FAIL.
It slowed firefox down for me on both my mac and pc – I ended up uninstalling it from both. Great idea in theory, but the reality was quite different.
Eh, it didn’t really work for me. Must have conflicted with some other extensions or something, but I installed only 5 minutes after trying it b/c it just wasn’t all the rage as so many have reported.
I’ll stick with TwitterFox, simple and light.
Ankit4 March 2009 12:17 am
PowerTwitter is a great idea gone horribly wrong. Its features are great but it slows down Firefox really badly. I hope it is revamped because its a real cool tool. If only it werent such a troll !!