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I got twitterrific for free in a bundle and it seems ok to me. I like the growl notifications. But I don't have anything to compare it against.

It doesn't use very much memory and it sits in my menubar. Notifies me via a popup window and growl if there's a new tweet. Again, it seems ok to me.
 
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