Digsby just released a new version today that adds facebook chat to the program and it is amazing. It’s nice to be able to chat on facebook without a browser and it is much more robust than the online facebook version. Digsby is also nice because it puts all of my chat networks and social updates feeds into one slick program. Download the new Digsby with Facebook chat today.

Besides the obvious web, email, and text ways to twitter there are a couple other really convenient ways as well.

Firefox add-on “twitterbar”
This add-on allows you to type your twitter update in the address bar of firefox and then click update within the address bar and it updates your status. You can use this add-on in secure and safe mode to connect to twitter. The add-on also displays how many characters out of 140 you have left to type and then gives you a confirmation message upon saving the twitter status.

Digsby (see my digsby post for more detailed information)
Digsby is a multi-client chat program and social site status update program. The program enables you to talk on all of your favorite instant message networks as well as update your twitter (also facebook and myspace) status directly from the program. Digsby also shows you your twitter updates from the people you are following.

Tweetdeck is by far the best twitter client out there. Tweetdeck is an AIR application so it runs on every platform and is the dashboard of twitter. Tweetdeck allows you to setup several columns of feeds with different information such as specific keywords, groups, and your regular twitter feeed.

What is it? It is an all around chat client (AIM, MSN, Gtalk, Jabber/XMPP, ICQ, &Yahoo) that also supports integration with social networking sites such as facebook, twitter, myspace(myspace sucks anyways) and also has integration with email (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, POP, IMAP, AOL/email).

Download Digsby for Windows | Digsby Home

Key Features

• Update your status for twitter/facebook/myspace all through the application
• View your news feeds for twitter/facebook/myspace in a fancy little panel either in your toolbar or in the actual application.
• Email directly from an account to anyone without having to use an external mail program or web based mail program. e.g. if you are talking to someone on gmail and want to send them an email about something you just click the email tab and type your message and send. No wasting time of using another application unless you need to write up an email containing any html such as bulleted lists or bold headers.
• Provides notifications for all new email messages and social networking updates.
• Make digsby widgets that you can post on any site such as facebook or your own personal blog site. Once the widget is placed on your site anyone that visits your site can IM you, kind of like instant support for a site…

Cons

• Currently only windows supported, mac and linux are on their way. Use these links if you want to be notified when digsby for mac comes out or when digsby for linux. comes out
• Couldn’t think of any other ones at the time, if I find some then I will post them.

Useful links

• Digsby Screenshots - IM themes are very similar to adium for mac if anyone uses that.
• Download Digsby for Windows - Mac and linux versions are supposed to be on their way.
• Digsby facebook application - you can put a box on your profile so people can im you or just use it to integrate with your desktop app.
• Full list of Digsby Features
• Pidgin - Another multi-client chat application that is what I was using before I switched to Digsby. Has a great following and is an amazing application.