Come Twitter the MacApper Staff With Twitteriffic!

In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past month or so, Twitter is a new sort of social network from Odeo creator Evan Williams. Twitter, distilled down to a simple concept, has been compared to an IM away message without the IM. Essentially, you update your status or insert tidbits of daily life and collect friends to keep track of what they’re doing as well. Twitter is a neat little website, and I’ve been using it for the past week or so, updating my status constantly on the web and via my phone, and now through Twitterific.

Twitterific is a simple little app from the Iconfactory that sits in your menu bar and updates you on your Twitter friends’ status changes, as well as letting you update your own status quickly and easily. Twitter itself can be pretty addicting, and Twitterific adds another extension to that addiction, giving you access to the site right from your menu bar. Twitterific, now at version 1.1.1, is free.

Many of the MacApper staff are on Twitter, so please feel free to hop on the site and add us as friends. Here’s a current list of some of the writers and editors with their Twitter profile pages:

* Josh R. Holloway (me!) (twitter.com/joshrholloway)
* Miles Evans (twitter.com/milesevans)
* Michael Yurechko (twitter.com/michaelyurechko)
* Glenn Wolsey (twitter.com/glennwolsey)
* Alec Feld (twitter.com/alecfeld)
* Tucker MacDonald (twitter.com/tuc11)
* Kristiano Ang (twitter.com/kristiano)

Come join us, and be sure to add your Twitter profile in the comments so we can Twitter you as well. Just a note, the standard web 2.0 warning is in play here: curmudgeons need not apply!