If you think Twitter is a no-good, time-waster, fad that will die off just in time before the new social media fad comes in; you should be glad to know that that is exactly how I felt before I started using Twitter. Your experience with twitter will be as good as the people you follow or the users you socialize with. If you follow someone who spams you with marketing stuff and updates every morning what he had for breakfast, then you definitely will be disappointed.

This post is not about persuading you to use twitter (maybe a little bit), but if you already do use twitter and only use it via web you should be glad to know that there are a number of desktop clients available for us Linux users which makes using twitter a lot easier.

(Some of these clients are OS independent)

1) twhirl: Thanks to Adobe Air deploying applications over multiple platform is easier than ever. twhirl is one of the most widely used twitter desktop clients out there. It supports multiple accounts over multiple social networks with a decent user interface.

2) twitus: A simple GTK+ twitter client with several distribution specific packages.

3) gtwitter: Inspired by twitterrific and written in Mono/C#, this is another good GTK+ based Linux client.

4) Qwit: Native KDE users will appreciate this twitter clients developed with Qt4.

5) Mitter: A light weight python twitter client which can also be also used from the console.

6) Gwibber: Another python based client that supports multiple microblogging network.

7) KickTweet: A simple Kicker applet for KDE.

8)TweetDeck: With more than 1 million active users, this is perhaps the most widely used twitter client available. Installs with Adobe Air.

9) BLT: For the fearless among you, BLT is a perl scripts that integrates twitter into bash. It updates new tweets into your console which you can reply to from the console.

10) Spaz: A slick Adobe Air client with many option with emphasize on user customization.

Hope you find one of these clients useful and don’t forget to follow me @linuxing. You can also use Twitter Directories like Twellow to look for people with similar interests to follow.

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