One of the driving forces behind my investment in a smart phone was none other than Twitter. I’ve always seen value in the service, but I never felt as though I was getting ALL of the potential value because I was stuck with a clunky Nextel i560. Now with my Droid, I’ve been able to finally experience the full power of Twitter.

All I can say is wow. Now I know what ALL of the buzz has been about.

But my experience isn’t just about the actual Twitter service. For that matter any experience on the internet is owed to both the service and the application used to gain access to it. I think my personal Twitter revolution is owed largely in part to the Seesmic Twitter app for Droid that I’ve recently started using.

Before Seesmic, I was using the popular Twidroid application. I even paid for the full version because I wanted to be able to manage multiple accounts ( my personal @DavidKonig and the @PIOSMTraining account to name two) and I wanted to be able to save searches.

Seesmic is really a great application with a variety of features and choices. You can edit your notification settings (all Tweets, Mentions, or Direct Messages), your refresh rates (5 minutes, 10 minutes, etc), and of course your notification tone.

The display is a typical Twitter timeline that you unfortunately can’t customize with colors, but it features hot key filters at the top for @ Replies, Private Messages, and your own profile. Seesmic will also allow you to save searches for quick one push searches of either hashtags or locations. I found this to be an incredibly valuable feature, especially when I was at a conference that used a hashtag.

But what I really enjoy about Seesmic is that it integrates seamlessly into the Share feature of the Droid. This allows you to share not just text but also photos through your choice of Twitter photo sites and making distribution of those scene photos very very easy.

Even though Twitter’s recent purchase of Tweetie signals the service itself is entering into the app market, I still think that for Droid users the Seesmic application is the most powerful choice with the best price… free.

You can download the Seesmic App through the Android Marketplace

About The Author

Dave Konig has authored 141 articles for PIOSocialMediaTraining.com

Dave has been involved in Social Media since 2005 through the current major services and some defunct ones as well. During this time he has been able to hone the craft by testing out the theories of others, creating his own philosophies, and gathering a better understanding of the mediums involved through networking and most importantly actual practice.

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