Mixero is a Twitter client. It’s the only one I’ve seen so far that has the one killer feature I’ve been waiting for – keyword blocking ability. I can’t tell you how much I’ve wanted and appreciate this feature.
Overall, Mixero is quite easy to use. Setting up groups only took a minute to figure out, and is quite easy. It remembers window positions when you reopen the app. You can turn sounds off, resize windows, etc – all the basic stuff you’d expect. If you hover over a shortened URL it’ll show you where it leads before you click on it. I especially like the “Follow Conversation” feature.
However, I’ve encountered two annoyances in Mixero that might make me go back to Tweetdeck until they’re resolved.
1 – Usernames cannot be simply left-clicked. You must right-click and select Open Link. This wouldn’t be that big a deal if only it worked. Whenever I choose Open Link I receive an error from Firefox (my default browser): “Firefox doesn’t know how to open this address, because the protocol (event) isn’t associated with any program.”
Twhirl, Seesmic Desktop, and Tweetdeck all work fine in this regard, so I am inclined to think this is an issue with Mixero and not with Firefox.
The Twitter client used to post a tweet appears in the tweet. For example: “NASA, today at 6:20 AM from TweetGrid.” If you right-click on TweetGrid (in this example) and select Open Link, it works just fine. Actual links in tweets behave as you would expect, opening a new tab in Firefox. Only when Open Link is chosen from the context menu on a username does this behavior appear. All this tells me it’s a bug in Mixero and should be very easy to fix.
2 – Whenever I click a link in a tweet, that tweet becomes and remains highlighted. New tweets do load, but I have to manually scroll up to see them. It’s as if the highlighted tweet has locked the position of the column of tweets. I have to close and reopen the group to restore normal behavior.
Now, I click on a lot of links in tweets. This workaround, closing and reopening a group, is something I’d have to do several times per hour, and I’m not willing to suffer the inconvenience. Software should not get in your way, ever.
3 – If you have a group open on the immediate left of the main window and then open the Options dialog, the Options dialog box is behind the main and group windows. You have to move either the group or main window aside to get to the Options dialog box.
Those are the only major issues I’ve found.
The list of features I’d like to see is a short one: multiple account support and the ability to customize the color scheme.
Because personal computers are indeed (or at least should be) personal, I encourage you to give Mixero a try. To get the beta, you have to follow them on Twitter and wait for an invitation. I had to wait three days to get mine, but of course I cannot guarantee what sort of wait you might have.