Itsy is a Twitter client that’s designed to take up minimal screen real estate; particularly useful if you’re working on a smaller laptop screen. It’s like a condensed version of Tweetie; it uses a smaller font and more compact design to achieve the space savings. Here’s a screenshot of the two clients side-by-side for comparison:
Despite its diminutive size, it sports a useful array of features:
- Mentions integrated into timeline
- Inline yfrog, twitpic and imgur viewing
- Reply chains
- Growl notifications
- Twitter Search
However, it’s not a good option if you need to manage multiple Twitter accounts.
Itsy is a free download for Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
Which Twitter client do you use?
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