So just when I finally decide that Tweetdeck is the best Twitter app out there and tell everyone about it…. I find one that I love even more!
Nambu is hot off the press and still in beta, but has already won me over. Apologies to my PC friends, but it’s only available for Mac (you can, however, still use Tweetdeck, which is a great tool).
One thing I didn’t like about Tweetdeck, was that while you could create and manage groups and searches, if you closed those windows, they were gone forever. With Nambu, each subsection you create lives in a convenient sidebar for future use. Also, this is the first tool I’ve seen that is great for managing multiple Twitter accounts (I have three) which is a huge timesaver.
Here’s what my Nambu looks like:
When you first start up Nambu, it will ask if you want install the Growl notifier–this will allow notifications to pop up on your screen for new tweets (You can also edit in preferences whether you want to have notifications for all tweets, or just private messages). This I find convenient on my big iMac screen because I can glance over and see if anything interested is going on without opening Nambu, however on my Macbook, I find it takes up too much of the screen and is far to distracting.
It is in Beta, so don’t expect everything to run perfectly–however I haven’t had any problems yet, so I’m happy. Another thing I will come oto love about Nambu is after it’s out of Beta it will allow you to integrate other services, (identi.ca, Friendfeed and ping.fm) but right now those features are disabled in beta. If you’re a social media fanatic without the time to manage all these services (like me) Nambu might prove to be a life saver.
Have you tried it yet? What do you think?
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9 thoughts to “New Twitter tool, Nambu, manages multiple accounts, groups, searches & more”
I’ve been using it for two days now and I just love it. We’ll see how ontop of bug-fixes and feature requests the developers are.
Nice to have keyboard shortcuts that work too!
@krusk – You have certainly piqued my interest. Will be hard to part ways with Tweetdeck, but…hmmm…maybe run them side by side for a few weeks?
dj
@djwaldow
p.s. any thoughts on adding an “email new comments” feature on this blog?
@WTL ooh I didn’t even know there were shortcuts! I’ll have to investigate.
@dj I would love to have an email comment feature. If only someone could tell me how to do it quickly and easily it would be up asap. *hint hint*
@krusk – depending on what platform your blog is written on, there usually is a plug-in for comments. I know there is for WordPress.
Also – how about getting that Gravatar set up?!
http://en.gravatar.com/
Then we can see your ever changing Avatar…and hair color.
@djwaldow
I *have* a gravatar, but that’s not where the photos come from. I think it’s a wordpress thing, but since I’m using self-hosted wordpress I can’t add a photo in.
@krusk – Dude. Sorry about giving you a hard time about the Gravatar thing. Just realizing that you answered that question previously.
As far as allowing readers to “email subscribe” to comments, this is what we use on the Bronto Blog: http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/
Hope that helps.
dj
@djwaldow
Really mean thing to do to PC users!
It seems like a great combination of Twhirl and Tweetdeck.
Hey Anthony-if it makes you feel better, the latest release has been really crashy (is that a word?) Hopefully when they iron out all the kinks they’ll make a version for PC users.
I have a Mac now.
But I am diehard Tweetie user! lol