Social networking is becoming a huge part of the internet experience for countless internet users. As the most popular online social networks expand exponentially, the tools and applications related to them increase accordingly. The applications range from online to installable ones and improve the accessibility of your social networking account. In some cases the applications adds functions to your networking account which are otherwise unavailable.

Today we will be having a look at an application for one of the most popular online social networks, Twitter. The application is called Twhirl.

Twhirl is a small AIR based application which runs smoothly on either Windows (2000, XP, Vista, Win7) or PC. Here is how the program looks like with the black color scheme:

With this desktop program installed on your computer you will be able to connect to your Twitter account, view your friends’ Tweets or the ones you have subscribed to, publish Tweets, reply to messages, and send your contacts private messages. Additionally Tweets which have your @username are automatically found for you. Notifications are provided to the user in case of these Tweets or any new messages.

You can also include the details of your Ping account and simultaneously update your statuses on not just Twitter but on many popular networks such as Jaiku, Facebook, and MySpace.

The sites for which you can directly add accounts to Twhirl include identi.ca, laconi.ca (Status.Net), FriendFeed, and Seesmic. Not only does supports these networks directly, but it also lets you add multiple accounts for any of these networks.

The support for Seesmic allows Twhirl users to record a video on Seesmic and instantly share it on Twitter. The Seesmic video updates received by Twhirl are in real-time and completely updated.

Regarding pictures, you can post your images from Twhirl onto yfrog.

That overwhelmingly impressive array of features should be enough for anybody to download and install this amazing application. Give Twhirl a try and control your Twitter (and other) accounts straight from your desktop.