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Twitter.com is obviously the most popular web-based Twitter client that you can use both on your desktop and mobile phone without installing any software.
The problem, however, with Twitter's built-in web client is that its quite basic and you can't really do much there except for replying and retweeting tweets. That explains why such a large chunk of Twitter users prefer using third-party web apps like Brizzly, Seesmic Web, HootSuite, Dabr, Slandr, etc. over Twitter.com for managing their Twitter accounts from the browser.
If you follow a fairly large number of people on Twitter and are looking for a tool that can bring some order to your chaotic friends timeline, check out JournoTwit. This is also a web client for Twitter but, unlike competition, JournoTwit is more about filtering noise from your Twitter stream and it can do this, more or less, automatically.
You just have to sign-in to JournoTwit using Twitter OAuth and you're almost ready to go. The app will automatically arrange your incoming tweets in different categories so all the messages containing pictures and videos show up in one column while retweets, or forwarded messages, are displayed in a different one.
A unique feature in JournoTwit is that you can create custom search columns that will only search tweets from people you follow. Regular search in Twitter is almost always full of noise but by limiting that search to tweets from people you trust, you can virtually eliminate spam from search results.
JournoTwit, using all the tweets in your timeline, builds an automatic tag cloud so you can instantly figure out popular topics that your friends are currently discussing on Twitter. However the feature that I liked most about JournoTwit is "Black listing" – you can specify a list of hashtags and words and tweets that match these terms will never show in your timeline.
Give it a shot sometime! Oh yes, it supports the blue Google Chrome theme as well so the thing should look good inside your Chrome browser.
Thanks Sherene Jos and Patrix for the tip. If you are looking for more ways to manager Twitter, please check out the following stories:
A Smart Web-Based Client for Twitter
Originally published at Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal.
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