A “Manageable” Compilation of Twitter Apps with Ratings and Short Reviews
Posted February 25th, 2009
by Yu-kai Chou
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Airabongco created a super awesome squidoo page collecting and organizing Twitter Apps. Here’s a sample of all the great tools you can use. Go on her squidoo page and rate her up! Also don’t forget to follow her on Twitter 
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Find Tweeters like You
Directories and User Search Tools
- Twits like Me
- Find out people like you
- Twellow
- A Twitter directory sorted by occupation
- Just Tweet It
- A twitter directory sorted by interest
- Twubble
- This tool will automatically find people who are compatible with your interests. However, if you follow too many people, then Twubble may recommend some people that you already follow
- Twittie Me
- Search for similar users and advertise your twitter page
- Twitdir
- Search for words in usernames, locations or descriptions
Find out what is the latest trends on Twitter
Sites that tell the latest stories and trends on Twitter
- Twitter Search (Summize previously)
- Search for the latest trends on Twitter
- Twitscoop
- A search tool that tracks trends as well as certain events.
- Flaptor Search
- A search tool that can be installed on your browser.
- Tweet Scan
- Search keywords on Twitter
- Twitterment
- Search Twitter users and topics
- Twitbuzz
- Find out the latest links and conversations on Twitter
- Tweetmeme
- find out the latest Stories on Twitter
- Twistori
- Find out what twitter loves, hates, believes, etc.
- Twitturly
- Find out the most talked about stories on Twitter
- Twitterverse
- Find out what Twitter is doing
- GoodBadMe
- Keep track of the good and bad on the twitterverse
- Favotter
- Find out the most favored (saved to favorites) tweets
- Twitstat
- real time twitter analytics
Track Twitter Users
Find out who the top Twitter users are
- Twitterholic
- Find out who the top twitter users are
- Toptweet
- Find out the top twitter users on one place.
- Twitrank
- a list of the top 150 Twitterers
Track certain keywords on Twitter
See keyword behavior on Twitter with these sites
- Tweet Beep
- Find out who is talking about you or your website through certain keywords
- Site volume
- Enter five keywords and see their activity on Twitter
- Tweet Volume
- A more personalize version of Site Volume
- Monitter
- Monitor Twitter conversations on three keywords. Good for catching the latest news
- Hashtags
- Track a certain keyword on Twitter
- Twemes
- See twitter memes or tags for Twitter
- Tweetchannel
- Find out what people are talking about through certain keywords called channels.
- Twitter Meter
- Find the trends of certain keywords
- Flaptor Trends
- Compare the trends of three keywords on Twitter
- Twitter Spectrum
- Find out the dominant keywords via a tagcloud generated.
- Serendipitwiterrous
- Search for tweets of a certain person using certain keywords
- Twittertroll
- real-time Twitter search engine
Twitter Links
Work with lnks on Twitter
- Twitter Buzz
- See the most popular links on Twitter
- Link Bunch
- Share more than one link on Twitter
- Tweetwire
- Sorts out links posted on Twitter into news format
- Twitterlinkr
- Find out the latest links posted on Twitter
- Twitturls
- Find out the latest URLs posted on Twitter
- Twitter Split
- Change the way you post links by adding your domain on the beginning of the link
Track Tweets Across the Globe
What do you get when you mix maps with Twitter?
- Twittearth
- Watch as people from different parts of the world tweet.
- Twitter Vision
- Watch Twitter in real time and see the location of Twitter users
- My Tweet Map
- A high tech map that tracks the location of a person
- GeoTwitterous
- Track a person across the map
- Twitter Map
- Same with GeoTwitterous
- Twitter Local
- Find out Tweets about a certain locale
- TwitSpy
- Another way where you can track the location of tweets
- Geo Twitter
- Another twitter location tracking site
- Mibazaar
- Shows current posts as they are posted on maps
- Twitter Atlas
- Find the conversations at certain locations
- Twitter Faces
- Map + Faces
Enhance your Tweeting
Some tools to add elements to your tweeting
- Twitter Keys
- Brighten your tweets with little pictures
- Twi8r
- Translate shorthand text to English and the other way around for easy tweeting
- Phweet
- Phone + Tweet, talk to your twitter friends through this online phone
Create Reviews via Twitter
Who thought 140 character won’t make reviews?
- Micro Reviews
- Post reviews on Twitter
- Notches
- Submit reviews. A partner of Microreview
- Louder Tweets
- Have your reviews of certain products posted
Tweet Reading Tools
change how you read tweets
- Twitter Digest
- Read tweets digest-style
- Tweet2tweet
- Read the conversations between two people on twitter.
- Twalala
- Choose the tweets you wants to read. Mute people or mute topics that you don’t want to read
All About Followers and Following
Track your followers as well as your own following behavior
- Tweet Wheel
- Find out which of your friends know each other
- Twitter Karma
- Find out who is following and unfollowing you. Have a mass follow and unfollow tool.
- Twitter Snooze
- If you have noisy twitter friends, you can snooze them for a certain time so you won’t receive their tweets.
- My Tweeple
- Evaluate your followers through the number of dings (recommendations) they have from other Twitter users
- Less Friends
- Find out who unfollowed you using this tool
- Qwitter
- Receive the names of the people who unfollowed you via email.
- Does Follow
- Tells you if a certain follower is following a person or not
- Twitterless
- Receive a direct message when someone unfollows you
- Twitter100
- Find out the latest 100 posts of your followers
- Twitterator
- Follow a list of people all at once
- Twitter Who
- Invite lots of people in one go
- Twitterlex
- See your last 30 tweets along with your friends. Use on Mac.
- What’s Up?
- Find out what people are up to
Use Twitter on Your Site or Blog
Tools that can integrate Twitter to your site or blog
- Add Tweets
- Make Twitter Update Widgets for site or blog using javascript
- Twitterfeed
- Post your blog to Twitter through your RSS feed
- Feed Tweeter
- integrate Twitter with Plurk, your blog and delicious
- Twitter Counter
- Display your follower count on your site or blog.
- Twit This
- Add this option so people can easily tweet information from your site or blog
- Twitter Tools
- A wordpress plugin that lets you integrate Twitter with your blog. You can send your updates to your blog as well as create tweets directly from your blog
- Twitter for Wordpress
- displays latest tweets on your blog
- Loudtwitter
- Ships your tweets to your blog
- Twitter Sharts
- ‘Shart’ your twitter status anywhere within your wordpress blog posts or pages
- Twitt Twoo
- plugin that will allow you to update your Twitter status right from your blog’s sidebar.
- Twitter Updater
- automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post
- Twitter Wordpress Sidebar Widget
- a wordpress widget where you can send your tweets to your blog
- WordTwit
- a plugin that utilizes the Twitter API to automatically push a post to your Twitter account when it is first published.
- Comment Twitter SMS Notification
- plug in to be notified by SMS when a user post a new comment on your blog.
- Stammy’s RSS To Twitter
- Not too many people have access to a Ruby-enabled server so the author decided to make a simple PHP script to get the job done.
- PingTwitter
- automatically update your Twitter Account when you publish a new blog post
Update Twitter with other Social Networking Sites
Post to different social networking sites at once
Twitter and your Favorite Websites
Integrate Twitter with other websites
- Twibler
- Update Twitter with your current ebay listings
- Twizon
- Twitter meets Amazon
- iTwitter
- iGoogle gadget that have ping.fm, twitter videos, twitter news, twitter tips, twitter tools and more.
- Be Twittered
- iGoogle app that automatically updates every 3 minutes
- Twitter Facebook App
- Integrate Twitter with Facebook
- Friendfeed Twitter client
- Update Twitter through Friendfeed
- Twitku
- Twitter + Jaiku
- Buy Later
- Receive tweets when an item comes back in stock at Amazon
- Twitter Yedda
- integrate Twitter with your Yedda account
- Twitget
- gadget for Windows Live. Displays your tweets
- Twitter Planet
- Windows Live gadget that features the public timeline on the planet earth
- Twitt
- Import links on your tweets to delicious
- Twitter Viddler
- Integrate Twitter with your Viddler account
- Drupal on Twitter
- This module provides twitter notification for new posts. Each user can use their own twitter account to post updates too, as well as have a custom format string.
- Googlereader Twitter Script
- Add a Twitter button to your Google Reader
- Twitter King Widget
- Widget for Netvibes
- Your Minis
- Twitter widget for yourminis website
Twitter for Groups
Effective when you want to only talk to a particular group
- Group Tweet
- Tweet with only a particular group of people
- Live Twitting
- Host Conferences or conduct interviews on twitter and record it in an organized fashion
- Crowd Status
- Find out the status of a certain group of people on Twitter
- Twitter Groups
- Tag your followers into different groups
Twitter as an organizer
Remind yourself of certain activities you have to do
- Timer
- Set an alarm for things you have to do
- Retweet Me
- A reminder tool that sends a DM on your scheduled activities.
- Remember the Milk
- Manage tasks on Twitter as well as set notifications for yourself
- Twittercal
- Integrate your Google Calendar with Twitter
- My Chores
- Track your chores
- Planypus
- Make plans and export them to Twitter
- Server Mojo
- Monitor your server with Twitter
Schedule your Tweets
Auto-tools to schedule tweets. Use wisely. Do not use for spam
- Tweet Later
- Schedule tweets, auto-follow and auto-welcome people
- Twittertise
- Schedule your tweets. Very useful when you are advertising.
- Tweet Ahead
- Schedule your tweets on Mac
- Twit Response
- Imagine Twitter + Autoresponder. Send tweets automatically.
Find answers to your questions
Think Yahoo Answers meet Twitter
- Lazy Tweet
- Find answers to your questions by posting “@lazyweb” or “@lazytweet”
- Toanswer
- Easily get answers to your questions by posting “@toask” and “@toanswer [question ID]“
- At Answer Me
- Another question tool
- Twitter Answers
- Another question site with a nice layout so you can easily get answers to your questions.
Polls on Twitter
Very useful for research
- Straw Poll
- Create and answer polls on Twitter
- Twitter Polldaddy
- Create a poll on polldaddy and tweet it
- Poll Tweets
- Participate in the latest Twitter poll
- Twittpoll
- Join some twitter polls and receive the results in 24 hours
Track Yourself Through Twitter Statistics
Check out your status on Twitter
- Tweet Burner
- Track the links that you post on Twitter
- Twitter Grader
- find out your twitter grade. Computed based on how complete your profile is as well as the number and influence of your followers.
- Tweet Stats
- Graph your tweet activity
- Twinfluence
- Measure your Twitter influence through tweets, reach of followers as well as second-order followers
- Tweeple Twak
- Track your friend gains and declines
- Twit Graph
- Graph your tweeting activity
- Tweet 140
- Track your direct message and tweet frequency
- Twitter Ratio
- Find out your friend to follower ratio.
Make Money with Twitter
Ways you can use your twitter account to earn money
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This is not even HALF of what she has on her list. Go check it out to fully realize your Twitter Potential!
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