A Windows Twitter & Facebook client to watch

I make a lot of fun about the number of Twitter clients that are churned out at a non-stop pace equating to a modern “Hello World” programming exercise. I have also tried most of them as either new ones are made available or existing ones are updated. One can get kind of blasè about them all after a little while but every once in awhile some nice comes along.

Such is the case with the newest client to hit the web from Sobees called bDule. This client however is for Windows users only who have the.NET framework installed which will limit its appeal to a point. With that disclaimer out of the way bDule is a rather interesting client in that it supports both Twitter and now Facebook and it allows you to select from a wide array of templates to display your timelines in.

When you run the client for the first time you will see this template selection dialog (which you can change later)

Once you have selected the template you want to use the main user dialog will be displayed allowing you to now select what you want displayed in each of the different parts of the dialog. In this one I selected a typical email panel display and loaded up Twitter in the largest of the three panes

Then added a Twitter search panel at the top right

And finally I added in my Facebook credentials for the last available pane

I decided to try another layout to see how it looked but this time selected one that put the Twitter search along the bottom of the display

The only unfortunate thing with bDule is that is suffers from the same memory hogging that we are use to with the AIR Twitter clients. Sobees’ does say that this is only an Alpha release so time will tell if they can get a handle on the problem and bring the memory under control.

Other than that this looks like a rather interesting addition to the ever growing repository of Twitter, and now Facebook, clients.

[hat tip to Go2Web20]