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In fairness, I should post the other Twitter clients for Windows that I examined before sort of settling on Sobee bDule.  There’s quite a few out there that aren’t dependent on you installing Adobe Air, yet another framework that you’ll have to be concerned about patching.

WPF Witty – A Windows client for Twitter (XP/Vista) leveraging WPF

Features:

• View recent Twitter statuses from the people you follow (auto-refreshing)
• View recent replies to you
• View a specific user’s timeline
• Update your twitter status
• View and respond to Direct Messages
• Links will open in the user’s default browser

Code Specific Features

• Minimize to the System Tray
• Runs in Single Instance mode
• Remembers the window settings for location and size
• Responsive UI with asynchronous calls to Twitter to prevent UI thread from locking
• Custom Styles and Resources
• Custom TwitterLib for encapsulating calls to Twitter
• Serialize to disk as XAML
• Make use of Kevin Moore’s FlipTile3D (easter egg)
• Spell Checking
• New messages are displayed with yellow fade technique
• Option for always on top (Right-click the Witty Header)
• Save and store application settings
• Skins and Skinning

COMMENTARY: 
This is a really nice, compact Windows WPF .NET client for Twitter that takes advantage of the Windows platform without being too heavy.  It fits in the Systray and is the original WPF client for Twitter.  Great tool by some of the original awesome .NET developers at Vertigo.  The Windows Team Blog commented about it here:
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsexperience/archive/2007/12/26/twitter-with-friends-using-the-wpf-client-witty.aspx

DOWNLOAD: 
http://code.google.com/p/wittytwitter/

Blu Twitter – A .NET 3.5 based Windows Twitter client for XP/Vista/7

Features:

• Unlimited tweets
  With blu you can view unlimited tweets. Just keep scrolling and more tweets will be loaded and displayed automatically.
• New tweets and inline replies
  Click the update icon from the bottom menu and a new text entry field will appear.

  Tweets can only be a fixed number of characters per message. blu displays how many characters you have left using large numbers behind your tweet so you know when you’re about to run out of space.

  And replying to a tweet couldn’t be easier: just click the reply icon and the tweet you’re replying to will flip, revealing a entry field. Direct messages and re-tweets work the same way.

• See the full conversation
  Here’s another great feature in blu. You get a tweet, but it’s a reply to something you said earlier and you can’t quite remember what it was you said.

  Usually, there isn’t a good way to see the first part of your conversation, but with blu, simply click on the arrow before the username and voila! Your tweet will flip in-place revealing the first part of your conversation.

• Tiny url integration
  That’s right. We’ve added tiny url support. Simply type or paste a link into the update bubble and blu will convert it for you. No extra buttons, no extra box.

  Want to expand your link? Just click the ‘plus’ icon and blu will roll-back to the full url.

COMMENTARY: 

This is just a frickin’ sexy client and really demonstrates what people can do when they put their mind to designing a nice WPF .NET 3.5 application.  I keep going back and forth between this and bDule.  I’m  not totally convinced that this isn’t the client for me given that Twitter is more important to me than Facebook.

DOWNLOAD:
http://www.thirteen23.com/experiences/desktop/blu/# (10.4MB)

Twitteroo – A simple Windows .NET Twitter client

Features:

Update your Twitter status from your Desktop

URL shortening via rurl.org

Double-click a status to message that user directly

Twitter notifications

View your Friends timeline or the Public timeline

Clickable links from status messages

Refreshes automatically or manually

Set refresh time and notification transparency

Support for international characters in status messages

Browse to Twitter user page or personal websites

Customize Twitteroo font size

Set transparency for main Twitteroo window and notifications

Optional sound notification when new tweets arrive

Profile icon caching for faster Tweeting

Bite-sized cookies made from real Twitter

COMMENTARY:
This is the classic .NET based Twitter client from 2 years ago.  Development on it seems to have halted in favor of some of the newer clients however it remains the single thinnest Twitter clients that are native to Windows at a mere 400k.

DOWNLOAD:
http://rareedge.com/twitteroo/