Twitter is the in thing. It is trendy and hip to tweet especially with high profile celebrities like shahrukh khan and karan johar from B town flocking to twitter . Majority of people don’t tweet from web i.e twitter.com. They use desktop clients as there are multiple accounts to manage, trending topics, groups of people, thousands of followers to watch and a lot more stuff to do which cant be done via twitter.com

Twitter is more than 3 years old and so there are thousands of apps to choose from

here are five most popular desktop clients

Tweetdeck: it is the best client available, shorten urls work with hashtags, group tweeps and a lot more which twitter is adding just now ! only flaw is the fact that it uses abode AIR

Twihrl : supports multiple twitter accounts filters tweets
Seismic : multiple twitter accounts , unlimited columns and good facebook integration.

Tweetie : for mac simple and neat view of convos

Destroy twitter: great group features and keywords support