It’s not secret. I’m a little bit of a Twitter addict. Just ask my wife.

Given the chance, I’d be sending ‘Tweets’ every chance I got. Luckily unfortunately the nature of my job does not allow for me to have my BlackBerry in hand while working. Otherwise I’d be a Twittering Nurse fool.

Most of my Twitter activity is done in front of my computer. And in most cases I do it before and/or after a typical day for me. Which includes my job, the gym, my family, and anything else that contributes to my human condition.

The hardest part about using Twitter (in my humble opinion) is the ‘catch-up’ factor.

Yeah, you’re not active on Twitter for an extended amount of time. Whether 1 hour or 1 day, you usually do some reverse timeline scrolling to figure out what the chatter is about.

Up until now, that has been a real annoyance for me. TweetDeck is my staple of Twitter-life. I use and abuse all its robust qualities. But, it never could help me out with my ‘catch-up’. I mean I get a pretty long stream of tweets to scroll through, but it takes a tad bit of effort to follow any single conversations.

Enter Tweetvisor

Tweetvisor has the ONE thing I have been looking for that is easy enough to utilize. Parsed @reply conversation threads.

When I am looking at the Tweetvisor main screen I can actually determine who is talking with who and what they are talking about!

That way, if I want to chime in about the conversation I won’t accidently miss a piece of the conversation.

Tweetvisor is a purely browser based application, unlike TweetDeck which is a desktop application. (Good and bad for both)

The top of the Tweetvisor screen is a great navigation tool for finding specific conversation threads, or specific types of tweets. Along the sides you have your @replies and your Direct Messages respectively.

Tweetvisor also offers some cool search features if your interested in a specific topic or something from a specific user.

It’s a fairly new application that is still growing. The Tweetvisor team has been very attentive to feedback given via Twitter. Everything from including shortened URL capability, to including Twitter profile links.

I use Tweetvisor and TweetDeck interchangeably. I don’t foresee eliminating one over the other at this point. My love for TweetDeck hasn’t changed, and Tweetvisor’s few but likable qualities aren’t going to lead me in another direction.

Keep on Tweetin’!

Carpe Diem