What is twhirl?
twhirl is a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform.
Some of twhirl’s features:
- runs on both Windows (2000/XP/Vista/Win7) and Mac OSX
- connects to multiple Twitter, laconi.ca, Friendfeed and Seesmic Video accounts
- displays notifications for new messages
- shorten long URLs (using digg.com, bit.ly, snurl, twurl or is.gd)
- cross-post your updates to Jaiku and many other sites like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and more via Ping.fm
- post images to yfrog
- search tweets using Twitter Search and TweetScan, and follow topics in near-real time with saved searches
- automatically find tweets mentioning your @username
- record a video on Seesmic Video, and share it on Twitter immediately
- get your Seesmic Video updates in real-time using XMPP
- English spell checking
There are a lot more things twhirl can do to improve your experience, and it offers various configuration options to adapt to your personal needs.
Latest Changes
Version 0.9.4 (September 21, 2009)
- improved API request usage for Twitter
- sharing images via yfrog
- tweets posted to Twitter appear as “via Seesmic” now
Version 0.9.2 (April 3, 2009)
- added https support for identi.ca
- using @username mentions returned from Twitter API
Version 0.9.1 (April 2, 2009)
- added digg.com short URL service
Version 0.9 (February 9, 2009)
- added saved searches on Twitter
- added searching for tweets mentioning @username
- added Ping.fm support
- added video recording
- added real-time updates for Seesmic
- added direct messages and favorites for laconi.ca and identi.ca
- added spell checking
Find out more about this release on our blog, or have a look at the changelog for changes in earlier versions.
Feedback
We want to know what you think about twhirl! Please send your feedback to info@twhirl.org or reply to @askseesmic on twitter.
Support
If you need help installing, configuring or using twhirl, always feel free to contact us on twitter by replying to @askseesmic.
Get twhirl
Install twhirl or update to the latest release by clicking on the automatic installer
Manual Installation
- Download and install Adobe AIR (if not already installed)
- Download and install the latest twhirl release

