Seesmic has just released a preview of their Seesmic Desktop. The program runs on top of Adobe Air and supports multiple Twitter accounts (Facebook support expected shortly). Additional features include support for multiple Twitter accounts, multiple column views, saved searches, grouped friend lists and an easier (and slicker) navigation bar. Missing features include lack of any trending topic screen to show popular keywords, lack of support for Friendfeed and an inability to automatically shorten URLS pasted into the message bar. Near as we can tell this will eventually be the replacement for Seesmic’s other Twitter client Twhirl. Comparatively this looks a lot like Nambu which is another Twitter client that I tried and found less stable than Seesmic Desktop. For a preview copy visit the link below.

PS – It’s humorous that Seesmic’s reason for not updating Twhirl was that nobody could pronounce Twhirl. I think they’ve traded a product name nobody can pronounce for one nobody can spell (I’ve since corrected my mis-spellings of Seeismic…)

http://desktop.seesmic.com