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My Perfect Twitter Client Please

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Twitter is running on my PC all day (and on the iPhone when I’m away) and I dip in and out constantly but my head is wrecked trying to find a Twitter app that has all I need. Lots come close but all let me down in one crucial area. I’ve tried the following:

Website – No alerts. Feature light.
Hootsuite – No notifications for replies, dm’s only. Slightly slow as it runs in a browser. No visual marking of read/unread tweets. No sync with iPhone.
Twhirl – Buggy. Keeps showing tweets as unread on startup. No Reply all. No iPhone app.
Echofon – Almost featureless Firefox plugin.
Tweetdeck – Too large a footprint on the PC and hard to read.
Twitteriffic – No PC client.
Tweetie – No PC client.
Seesmic – No iPhone client. No Multiple accounts. No lasting highlighting of unread tweets.
TwitBird – No PC client.

Here’s a list of specs I’d like to see:

NB Proper syncing between Desktop and iPhone versions of the same client. I really need stuff I’ve already read on the PC to be marked read on the iPhone app and vice versa.
Ease of use and visually minimalist.
Fast.
Highlight unread and Reply tweets.
Scroll to first unread tweet.
Control over notifications, ie – audio & visual push alerts.
Preview Short url’s.
Multiple accounts.
Select account to tweet from on each new tweet.
Show quick profile, stats and follow/unfollow links.
Quick links to Reply, DM users.
Favorite following.
Auto shortlinking.
Tweet audio, video and photos.
Tweet and link stats.
Text compression.
Sync with Outlook address book.
Filtering – see replies, dm’s only.
Auto suggest Twitter handles and Hashtags when composing.
Advanced search for tweets and Profiles.
Geotagging.
Send to Facebook, Linked, etc..on each new tweet.
Schedule tweets.
iPhone Autosave on exit.
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