Posty: Get the Word Out to Friends on Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, and More

Some of my closest friends use Twitter, some prefer Jaiku for its features, others use FriendFeed because it's trendy, and others prefer Pownce for its simplicity. This means I wind up with accounts at more microblogging services than I'd really like to admit, and it makes it difficult to follow everyone's updates and participate on all of their networks.

Enter Posty, an Adobe AIR application that allows you to track friends on Twitter, Pownce, FriendFeed, Jaiku, and Tumblr. You can even push the same update to as many of those services as you choose. You only have to click once to send a message to all of your friends, regardless of the service they prefer to use.

Posty uses Adobe's AIR framework, which means that it works exactly the same on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. The app is a tiny download, and once installed allows you to browse all of your microblogging services simultaneously, switch between public posts and friends-only posts, search each one of the services, and post to any number of them (or all of them) if you have something to say.

When you're ready to post, simply compose your message and check off the services you want your post delivered to. Posty will then send the post using your account information, and it'll show up in your timeline. Posty even supports replies from others to your posts on services that allow it, like Twitter and Pownce. Posty will also render multimedia that you've embedded into your posts, like YouTube video. Posty is incredibly easy to use, and reminds me a bit of Web services like HelloTXT, which allows you to update several services at the same time, but doesn't allow you to browse them and isn't downloadable.

Posty is a lot of fun to use, but you do have to be kind of crazy about your favorite social networking services to really get value out of it, and you have to have friends and communities on all of them to make it really worth using. The app can definitely simplify and streamline your microblogging life, but only if you don't get sucked into creating more accounts on more services just because Posty supports them. Now if only Posty supported Plurk, I'd be sold.

[via DownloadSquad]