Nambu is a terrific twitter client for the Mac and iPhone. It includes the ability to manage multiple twitter accounts, a mailbox like interface that lets you organize all of your tweets, . You can check out where you are mentioned on twitter, direct messages, sent messages, favorites, and even current trends on twitter! Not to mention the killer ability to organize the people you are following into groups to better manage your tweet stream. I for one use the groups feature very heavily. I have one group for fellow codeigniter people, one for work messages, and another for celebrities such as @aplusk & @grantimahara.

The search feature is pretty nice too. You can save searches and when new entries for those searches appear you will be notified. So if you have an existing search open for “CodeIgniter” and someone you dont even know posts “Man i love Codeigniter!” you will see that message. A great way to find new friends on twitter with the same interests as you.

Nambu also includes integration with tr.im and pic.im services. Yes i know you are thinking that they are just another set of url shortening services and you are right, but they also have a few tricks up their sleeves. Such as being able to see right from the client how many people have clicked your links and when you visit the tr.im website you can see an analytical breakdown of browsers, countries, bots vs. humans, etc. A pretty powerful feature for anyone who loves to keep track of how traffic is coming to their website.

Nambu is completely free! No trial periods or annoying ads get inserted into your tweets either. You can download the desktop version for mac here and you can download the iphone app from the itunes store. So you have no reason to give nambu a shot and save some money while you are at it!