It has always been a tough fight between Seesmic's Desktop and Tweetdeck in the past few weeks, and they both seem to entertain the groups of people alright with their niches. This scenario however, is going to change overnite when Facebook released their Facebook Open Stream API.

Seesmic is one of the first companies that integrated Facebook Open Stream API in their Desktop application. At first it offers nothing more than what Tweetdeck does with their own Tweetdeck Facebook App, giving users access to posting and reading status updates from within the Twitter clients. Arguements and comparisons betweet the two have been all over the Internet for quite sometime already and they both seem to have equal share of supporters, however the blanace is going to change.

Seesmic released Seesmic Desktop v0.2.1

Few days ago Seesmic released Seesmic Desktop v0.2.1. This latest version has added "add comment" support allowing users to post and view all comment threads of the Facebook status updates. I personally find this EXTREMELY useful as half of my social media activities are on facebook and half are on Twitter, and sadly enough 95% of my Facebook contacts don't use Twitter and vice versa due to cultural differences (Twitter just doesn't get as popular in Asia countries for some reasons). I have been trying this new feature and it definitely saves up a lot of my time from logging into Facebook just to comment on some status updates from friends. This new feature gives me all the reasons I need to choose Seesmic Desktop over Tweetdeck, and I'm pretty sure a lot of users will feel the same.

I have always thought that Facebook and Twitter are competing each other on the same ground (at least part of the the market share is the same). I guess it really does better good to keep your enemies closer sometimes? :P

What is your choice between Seesmic Desktop over Tweetdeck? Are you using other choice of client that can share with us?