Twitter Developer Seesmic Acquires Ping.FM

19 Points

Those of you who use Seesmic's various Twitter/Facebook clients (Seesmic Web, Seesmic Windows and the Adobe Air-based Seesmic Desktop) have come to be familiar with the Twitter developers' attention to detail and sleek UI design; Seesmic Web is widely considered to be one of the best web-based Twitter clients out there, and Seesmic Desktop is rivaled only by Tweetdeck in terms of sheer usage. Now, the Twitter developer is showing the first signs of having aspirations far above and beyond simple client design when they announced today that they've acquired Ping.FM, the web-based service that...

  • Jan 5, 2010

Three Reasons Seesmic Web May Just be the Best Twitter Client Out There

7 Points

As Twitter clients go, Seesmic is almost always on the top of my list - Seesmic Desktop, their Adobe Air-based Desktop client, has one of the sleekest UI's out there, is one of the most fully-featured desktop Twitter clients and has an almost alarmingly pleasant chime to let you know when you've received new @replies or direct messages.

As good as Seesmic Desktop is, though, Seesmic Web actually manages to be a significantly better Twitter client, for a few simple reasons.