My thoughts on MetroTwit

I signed up for Twitter 2 years ago I believe. The first client I ever used was Twhirl. Then came TweetDeck. Twhirl was good. TweetDeck was great. Then I found out about MetroTwit. I heard about it from Carson a couple days ago and have been using it since then for tweeting on my desktop computer. MetroTwit is currently only in technical beta form (specifically 0.2.2.0) so nothing is complete. Here are my thoughts.

The Good

Okay, there are a TON of good things about MetroTwit. The interface is slick (and very Zune-ish), the update system is convenient, and lots of different settings can be customized. Lots of good stuff.

The Bad

I’m not sure if anybody but me has had this problem, but this thing is SLOW. Just after I wrote that sentence, I opened up the Task Manager and saw that MetroTwit.exe was taking up 699,01 K of memory. TweetDeck was averaging around 100,000. Twhirl was even less. It constantly freezes up on me and disappoints me with bad performance.

The Ugly

I’m convinced that the guys behind MetroTwit just stole TweetDeck. Is it just me or is the interface almost completely the same. I mean sure they changed the basic style of some elements but come on. Look around the software. You’ll agree with me.

Final thoughts

Overall, MetroTwit is decent. It’s a good application with cool features but it’s extremely slow and it still has some issues. Hopefully they can work out these problems before v1.0 comes out because right now I’m giving it a 6/10.