Official Twitter Android App Lands

After Twitter's announcement that we'd be seeing official apps across every platform from the service, we've seen two entries, and one acquisition. Twitter for Blackberry underwhelmed. Tweetie for iPhone was picked up by Twitter and is now being reworked and renamed as Twitter for iPhone. In the meanwhile, Android users have a new app to play with. Twitter for Android went live at the end of last week. The app is certainly polished, though it does lack features a power-user might use.

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Seesmic Web Manages Contacts Better Than Twitter.com

Seesmic Web, while certainly not perfect, is easily the best Twitter web experience available. Brizzly is nice, and HootSuite is nothing to shake a stick at, but when I'm away from my computer and I want to get online and hit up the Twitters, I go right to Seesmic Web. They pushed an update this week adding a new tab to their interface for Twitter contacts, and compared to Twitter's contact management, it's a total dream. With faster navigation, scrolling, and Mr Tweet stats, and drag and drop list modification, it's far and away the best web offering right now. The contact lists are brand new so it could use some work, but for the most part, it's a much easier and faster way to weed out followees, and manage lists. Head to Seesmic to try it out and sign up. Did I mention it's totally free?

Seesmic For Android Gets More Formidable

Do you have an Android device? Are you running Seesmic For Android? If you're not, you have a problem. Android's developer community still lacks the polish and prestige that the iPhone community carries, but every day gets the Android community a little closer. (Let's not forget that the iPhone community has about a year of lead time.) One of these such entries is Seesmic's Android app. If ever there were an app to showcase what this platform can do, and the care that's being put into developing for the platform, Seesmic would be in the running. (Along with Slidescreen)

Seesmic has replaced every other Twitter app on my Droid with the exception of Twidgit Lite which I use just for the homescreen accessibility. The Seesmic update includes a few key features that bring it closer to the best iPhone apps, and certainly the best Android app. We're talking about: Multi-accounts for browsing and cross posting. Directly from the compose screen, users can select which accounts to post to. The other killer feature is persistence in your timeline. No matter where you go, your timeline will be where you left it. 

There are a few more additions, but those are the big two. Alright, that's enough. Get going to the Android Market and get downloading. 

You can also check out a list of the rest of the features and a video of the charismatic Loic LeMeur explaining them after the jump. 

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Seesmic Look Shows Us Another Side Of Twitter

Last week, we covered a tweet from Loic Le Meur alluding to a new product called Seesmic Look. Now, that product is here. Seesmic Look is a new way to ingest Twitter. Aimed at the Oprah crowd, Seesmic "Look"s (get it??) to attempt to bring them into the social space. Seesmic Look is built as a Windows application (Seesmic's second) and very much runs as if it's intended to be a full-screen experience.

What Loic refers to as the "power-user" will still feel comfortable with browsing their followees, and diving into profiles, which look beautiful. Profiles pull the background from the user's twitter page and beautifully incorporate it into Look's interface. Seesmic's provided streams are separated into interests, and sponsored channels. Interests are curated lists by Seesmic separated by topic, while channels are sponsors by major brands and curated by the sponsor, through Seesmic, not using Twitter Lists.

The entire experience seems very much intended to mimic a TV experience. Whether or not this will actually sway the "Oprah crowd", I'm not sure. We'll have to wait and see. One thing is for sure, though, Loic is a very forward thinking fellow, and Seesmic Look is a very ambitious project. To many, Twitter is still perceived as an ego trip and not a rich source of information. This may help bridge that gap.

Everybody Look At Seesmic

Loic Le Meur tweeted from "Seesmic Look" that he's checking out a cool new app. Hmmm....interesting. We're not sure what exactly Seesmic Look is, but sources are pointing to Loic's video from a while back with predictions for Twitter's future. He mentioned in the first 2 minutes that Twitter, thus far has been for the power users, and less for the masses.

Could Seesmic Look be a stupid-simple tool for N00Bs to get into using Twitter? Thankfully, we won't have to wait too long to find out. Clicking on the Seesmic Look link from Loic's tweet takes you to a landing page on Seesmic's site telling us about about an event this Thursday, Jan 21 at 9AM EST.

Photo via TechCrunch

Check out 1:12 of the video after the jump.

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