• ReadWriteWeb, Friday, September 10, 2010 12:26 PM

Now that Twitter clients have found their ways onto your desktops, they seem to be asking themselves what they're going to do there. Thursday Hootsuite announced an Omniture integration that would provide sophisticated analytics about followers, if you were into that sort of thing. And Friday Seeesmic has laid a bolder claim, moving beyond Twitter in an effort to become mission control for all things real-time -- complete with its own app marketplace of plug-ins.

ReadWriteWeb gives the Silverlight-based platform and a big thumbs up and hopes that more clients will adopt the marketplace approach, "After using Seesmic for a while, the application's potential to become a major desktop hub for real-time services quickly becomes clear and hopefully, more developers will soon offer plugins for their services as well."

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