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It dawned on me that if I’m going to post something on Facebook, I should probably do it for the other service that I’ve been trying out – Twitter – because it has an equal number of cool software applications for it as well.

Chirpr – Windows Vista Gadget for Twitter
The Chirpr gadget for Twitter is a really reliable and easy to use gadget for posting updates to Twitter.  It’s easy to type in your posts and it counts the number of characters you’ve used in a new post to ensure that you don’t go over 140.  It also shows you the history of posts that you have on your Twitter page. 

What I like about it is that it’s always available in my Vista Sidebar so regardless of what application I’m in, I can quickly crank out a post if I’m in the mood.  And it’s free!

LINK: http://www.codeplex.com/chirpr

Outtwit – Outlook PlugIn for Twitter
Outlook now has it’s own free plug in to allow you to post updates to Twitter directly from Outlook. 

I used to have to go to my Windows Vista sidebar to post to Twitter but now I don’t even have to do that if I’m in Outlook.  There’s a bar in the interface now that allows you to make posts and receive replies directly into an Outlook folder.

LINK: http://www.techhit.com/OutTwit/quickstart.html

ceTwit – a Twitter client for Windows Mobile
Interested in posting and tracking Twitter feeds using a client other than the SMS text facilities of Pocket Inbox?  This is a good way to do it.  I’ve only recently started using this but it’s a helluva client for posting Twits as well as tracking Twitter feeds from others.  The interesting thing about ceTwit is that it supports Ping.FM which allows simultaneous cross posting against Twitter, Plurk, Facebook, Jaiku, etc. in a single post.

LINK: http://www.kosertech.com/blog/?page_id=5

(Now because I haven’t been using it very long, I can’t give a full on recommendation behind it but not to worry – there are numerous OTHER Windows Mobile Twitter clients out there for you to use:
http://theregoesdave.com/2008/04/01/7-twitter-clients-for-mobile-phones/)