It’s always been an unending quest of mine, the search for the perfect Twitter client. You see, for some reason, I’ve been averse to using the default Twitter web interface. For some reason it never really appealed to me. I’ve used a bunch of Tumblr desktop clients before, with various results. I’m still searching for that perfect Twitter client that will make me use the social networking site more efficiently, and if you know what it is don’t hesitate to point it my way. Maybe we can submit it to an Australia Business Directory or something. In the meantime, here’s the various Twitter clients I’ve used before.

 Snitter - this was the first Twitter client I used and also my first exposure to Adobe Air. It worked pretty well back when Twitter clients didn’t have any features at all, and actually, all I wanted then was the toaster pop-ups that would show up on the bottom right of the screen.

 Twhirl - this is the Twitter client I used after a update Snitter broke. It doesn’t offer anything different from Snitter, and I actually stopped using this after a while.

 TweetDeck – this is sort of the ultimate Twitter client. We have multiple columns and all sort of features that anyone would ever ask from their Twitter client. Heck, it even has Facebook integration and all. However, I’m not a fan of the UI (it’s… UGLY) and I switched to Hootsuite after.

 DestroyTwitter – despite the name, this awfullly light desktop client is not out to destroy Twitter. This is actually stripped-down compared to other clients, but in return it’s very snappy. Also, I can’t get enough of their filtering feature, which lets me hide people and tweets I don’t care about without actually unfollowing them.

Heck, if I can, I’d make my own web-based client with all of the features I’d need and use, but you know, it’s kind of hard to come up with the perfect name for it. There’s a lot of great domains to choose from.

Twitter has continued to enjoy success, and with the “new Twitter,” it might even exceed expectations. Now we cannot ignore the fact that not everyone is happy about the new design, but it could just be a case of having to get used to change. In any case, while Twitter is enjoying its popularity and widespread use, statistics are showing something else in terms of quality.

According to Sysomos, around 7 out of 10 tweets are ignored by users of the microblogging platform. The social media analytics company conducted a study over the last two months wherein they took a look at 1.2 billion tweets. Of this total number, only 29% of the tweets attracted attention – measured by replies. Of this 29%, 19.3% were retweets, while the rest were replies to the original tweet.

What does this mean? Basically, the opinion that Twitter is full of mundane things that may be of interest to a limited number of people in one’s circle just might be true. Then again, this study cannot be considered the end all be all. Even the spokesperson of Sysomos says that what should be remembered is that while Twitter is a microblogging platform, content is still of prime importance. Going back to a cliche: content is still king.

Just because there is a lot of noise on Twitter, it does not mean that it cannot be a useful tool for people and companies who have specific aims to market a product or a service. What this means, in essence, is that you ought to make sure that you have a message and that you tweet it in an engaging way.

Twitter may be the hottest thing on the internet right now but even with its popularity the microblogging platform that has become the platform of choice for many celebrities and artists has yet to make money.

The people behind Twitter are now trying to make the venture profitable by changing its terms to potentially open itself up to advertisers.

In the Twitter blog, Biz Stone the co-founder of Twitter, said that they are trying to “keep our options” open.

There were no exact details given about how to open Twitter to advertisers. But the company has been studying different ways to generate revenue from the service that has seen phenomenal growth since it went public in 2006. Some of the other ways being thought of is to charge for commercial accounts.

Also recently, Twitter started giving out authenticity badges as a sign that the person who owns the account is who they say they are. This has been seen as something that corporate entities may be interested in buying.

Twitter has experienced an explosive boom in its popularity. The microblogging site has become the go-to site for many people who want to give the world a peek into their world, whether it’s exciting or mundane.

That’s why any kind of snags in Twitter’s operations can have a big impact. Just like what happened last Thursday when Twitter was hit by a denial-of-service attack. Twitter didn’t immediately acknowedge the attack. It didn’t offer an explanation for the disruption of service and only placed an innocuous “Site is down” message. Twitter finally revealed the Ddos attack a couple of hours after it placed the “site is down” sign. The new message on the Twitter status blog was, “We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly.” Twitter reported that the site was back up at around 11:21 AM EDT but some people still reported not being able to access the site.