Would you prefer Tweetminer to be a desktop app?

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I personally prefer to live on my desktop, and would probably move to using TweetMiner as my Twitter client if it's on the desktop.

If it was a desktop app, I would probably delete TweetDesk.

Just a quick note to say an adobe AIR desktop version is in the works. It will work as a desktop app and also as a website app.

Awesome, running it now!

Love the desktop app. Thanks for porting it to Air.

One thing that would be handy is if you changed desktop to use the default external browser when opening links within Tweets / RSS.

On the way ... good job.

I want everything web-based. I like to work on whatever computer is in front of me in whatever airport lounge I am - and I don't carry a laptop anymore ;)

BUT... Just for fun, I checked it.

One comment: I love the fact that on the browser-web-based one, the window now opens a long list of tweets. On the desktop version, I only saw a very small window which forced me to do a lot of scrolling down (like it used to be on the web version as well).

When do we get an iPhone TweetMiner app?

Yup. At some point I'll need to fix that about the desktop app. The trick will be to get the AIR wrapper to trigger the re-sizing as the main outer wondow size is changed... I'm not sure I have enough hours in the day to make an iphone TweetMiner!

Personally, either web or desktop is fine as long as they have the same functionality. So far, you've provided about everything I think I need/can use at this point. Thanks for everything Justin! and thanks to all for excellent comments!

I have the app now and have started using it but would like it to have some sort of bulk follow/bulk unfollow features combined w/search on the bulk follow side. Like the web.

I like it as a browser app. the desktop apps eat too much processor power. I am getting a new 'puter, so maybe I will feel differently, but for now, keep it in the browser!

As a quasi-geek user of Ubuntu I much prefer Web based tools and hope you never stop offering the Web version. Anyone who has limited bandwidth (satellite or cell phone Internet access), dial-up, older less powerful or slower PCs or just gets tired of updating software all the time will prefer the Web version.

I prefer to use web based tools nowadays, particularly for applications that are highly dependent on internet connectivity to provide services.

It is much easier to support and update a web based tool. You can roll out updates more easily. Features and capabilities can be added without being too concerned about:

a) bandwidth consumed as hosted application will generally have better access to bandwidth than a home user, makes life easier for the application

b) underlying engine performance can be easily tuned as more powerful platforms can be used to host the application as well as spreading the load with load balancing when number of users increases (users do not need powerful client machines)

c) management of data feeds are all centrally controlled, users get UI only

d) it is a paid service now, so needs to have resillience/recovery and this is easier to arrange in a centralised application

I like being able to access the application from any browser (even on my iphone - it would be good to have optimised UI for mobile clients though)

Hope you are ready to take fully to the cloud for a massive increased in user base.