As you fill your desktop, you'll be amazed at the number and variety of tweets. If you're the type that doesn't want to manage Twitter via a small column on the edge of your screen, you can choose, detach, drag, re-size and even stack whichever columns you choose to take up as much, or as little space as you want. There are a million other features, but the last big difference between Mixero and the others are the detachable, re-sizable columns. Adding follows into a group is simple and you can select or even upload unique avatars for your groups to make them easy to spot when you add them to your main column.
The "contacts" column shows all your follows, sorted by group, with any ungrouped follows in a separate group a the bottom. Also included in those options are channels (fully customized searches), followed lists, trending topics, and chats. Mixero's handling of groups is just one of several outstanding features that you can access when you expand the right panel.
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Mixero had groups before Twitter had lists, and in recent versions added full synchronization of its groups with Twitter public and private lists. Several intuitive hot spots allow you to double click and go directly to the function you'd expect it to on the interface. Adding that person to a fully synchronized Mixero group/Twitter list is as simple as clicking on the list name.
You can easily follow (or unfollow) from the profile view. Other functionality available in each post includes single click reply, reply all, Retweet (classic or Twitter style adjustable in settings), Direct Message, mark as a favorite, translate from a foreign language, block user and report as spam.Ĭlicking on any person's name displays their time line in a full column, and tabs at the top allow you switch from time line to display of all tweets between you and them, and a profile display (with a notes field so you can add your own info about them). If the post itself contains a link to a photo, the photo displays in small pop-up. You can also filter results by whether they contain replies, mark all as read, and display only the unread ones.Įach message contains a user avatar, and if the post is part of a conversation, icons display the other posts in that conversation as a small pop up. A column that displays only 5 messages in either of those displays 9-10 in Mixero.Įvery expanded column allows you to filter the results by keyword, by clicking on small avatars, all displayed at the top of the column.or both. The column contains messages that take up significantly less space than either Tweetdeck or Hootsuite. Settings allow you to have it play a sound if you want to be notified of new posts, but the colored highlights are enough notice for me (and don't drive my dogs crazy like the sounds do).Īnytime you want to expand a group/list, or see all your mentions or DM's, you simply click on any of the icons, and Mixero expands to a solid mode, but still only takes of section of the desktop. Mentions and Direct Messages also are highlighted, and a simple mouseover shows you the most recent message. New messages in any groups/lists or channels are notated by means of an orange highlight with the number of new messages displayed. "Avatar mode" takes all the information you need.multiple accounts, groups, and new messages, replies and DMs and puts it in a semi-transparent one inch wide column at the edge of your desktop. The first thing you'll appreciate about Mixero is the way it runs in the background when you're engaged in other tasks. While Mixero doesn't have some of the functionality of Tweetdeck (or Hootsuite), it more than makes up for it by making all the functionality most users need simpler, cleaner and taking up less space on your desktop. Unlike Tweetdeck (and Hootsuite), Mixero gives you much better control over your desktop. Like Tweetdeck, Mixero runs on Adobe Air. But for day-to-day ongoing monitoring and management of my Twitter account, Mixero pretty much runs on my laptop 24/7. I also prefer Hootsuite's ht.ly shortener so I can measure clickthroughs, but hate how much desktop real estate it takes up. This time, I watched the video on their Web site to figure out what I missed the previous attempt, and I haven't looked back since.Īs a disclaimer, I still use Hootsuite to schedule those Tweets with links to articles and blogs to be spread out over a full day instead of all going at the same time. After a few more months of thinking there just had to be something better, I gave Mixero another try. Shortly after, I was introduced to Mixero, which I tried, didn't understand and summarily dismissed. Over a year ago, I wrote about Tweetdeck as my preferred desktop application to manage my Twitter account.
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