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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