(Credit: CNET) What’s better than posting tweets from Twitter.com ? Just about everything. Third-party Twitter apps are typically more powerful, crammed with managerial features that get you quickly viewing, sorting, replying to messages, and retweeting in a click or tap. They automatically shorten URLs to fit Twitter’s character limit, and help you post pictures through other services, like TwitPic and yfrog . Most of these desktop apps manage multiple Twitter accounts, are customizable, and are more attractive than Twitter online. They also sometimes succeed in posting your tweets

during times when Twitter’s site famously fails . Convinced yet? Good. We’ve rounded up five desktop applications that help you post tweets and retweets to Twitter. Four run on the Adobe AIR runtime environment ( Windows | Mac | Linux ), which you need to download before you install the Twitter apps. But enough of the technical details–get tweeting! Related story: Tweet your music preferences with these apps Originally posted at The Download Blog

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5 apps get you tweeting from the desktop