Twitter is a popular social networking utility which has gained enormous popularity as a micro-blogging tool, With millions using the service across the globe. Indeed, Twitter is pretty much constantly in the news. It enables friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

Registered users can post messages (known as Tweets) via a Web interface. However, many users prefer to use desktop applications that offer more functionality and are totally removed from the web browser. Using a desktop application also means that subscribers do not have to keep refreshing the web browser’s page. Having a desktop client polling for updates is very handy. To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 8 Twitter clients which make micro-blogging easier.