You probably know Twitter. It’s a web tool which allows users to share their thoughts in the form of short messages, answering the question: “What are you doing now?”.

Khoi Vinh, in his Subtraction, describes his experience with Twitterific, a desktop utility for Mac:

I had a hard time remembering to post the short, punchy updates that are Twitter’s principle currency until the advent of Icon Factory’s free, desktop-based Twitterific utility for Mac OS X. Twitterific puts a persistent kind of ‘heads up display’ right on your Mac OS X screen so that your friends’ posts are immediately available, and that you can easily add new posts yourself.

For me, this is another example of how the effort of installing an application on your PC (or mobile phone) can improve a Web-based tool, leaving its core on the Web.

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