Last week on April 3, 2008 one of the big news items was Seesmic acquiring Twhirl, an Adobe AIR based Twitter client. Now both are very small companies and I am really wondering how it can be an acquisition? Both came together in a quest to offer consumers a more complete product. One of the web 2.0 problems is that there are few companies which are product features rather than a complete product itself.

Seesmic is a video micro blogging web application developed by French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur. Twhirl is a very popular Twitter application; it accounts for 7 percent of the traffic on Twitter.

Seesmic plus Twhirl, powered by XMPP (Twitter supports XMPP messaging) is going to be power- Instant text and video communication and presence status, which is a more complete product than earlier and hence more attractive to consumers. Video blogging has had limited success compared to text blogging and this is a way for Seesmic to shift its focus from video to overall ‘microblogging.’ Despite Twhirl’s importance in the Twitter ecosystem, it is not a huge app by normal software standards. A combined service will provide a more compelling way of communication factoring in user’s broadcasting & time preferences.

Overall, Twhirl will benefit the Seesmic community in the following ways:

• Getting in touch with your friends using microblogging is much easier using a client than through your browser.
• Twhirl works on Mac AND PC, soon on Linux too.
• Twhirl lets you easily use all the advanced messaging options of Twitter (replies, direct messages)
• Twhirl allows you to have multiple Twitter accounts opened simultaneously.

Of course, adding video to Twhirl will be a plus to the Twhirl community. Maybe I need to shift from WordPress comfort zone to the Seesmic world?