Seesmic has launched a new desktop application for Twitter, called Seesmic Look, that hopes to take Twitter to a “mainstream audience”. Seesmic Look functions as a Twitter client, but offers some additional options. Its user interface confuses the core aspects of Twitter just enough that their distance from a normal Twitter application makes Look a crippled news tracking tool.

I can understand their goal but i don’t know how they are going to achieve it with such an information clutter. My dad will never use anything like this to start discovering twitter and i would not recommend it to any new comer to the real web either. If it were up to me i would have lunched this as a brand monitoring tool targeting mostly PR agencies who lack such good tools online.

It would be interesting to see where they’ll be in a couple of months and also to see how they react to users requests. This is what they are asking, and i agree:

• Incorporate the classic RT option for those who dislike twitter’s new version of it
• Double click a tweet to show threaded conversation
• Add the Minimize to tray feature like in Seesmic Desktop
• Add support for keyboard shortcuts like J & K for Next & Previous