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The Most Popular/Top Twitter Web 2.0 applications!

By Amarendra Bhushan for CEOWORLD Magazine Updated:January 22, 2009

Twitter, the fast-growing microblogging and social media site, where users post short updates about what they are doing has received an explosion in visitors. Twitter had a banner year in 2008. Seventy percent of Twitter’s membership joined last year, at an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 accounts per day.

Twitter is a place you can meet tons of new people with the same interests as you, and tons of people who have absolutely nothing in common with you. Here’s our selection of the most interesting and practical Twitters apps:

Twtvite Create a twtvite in the time it takes tweet — just input your Twitter name, event name, place, time, date, and add an 140 character description.

Twtpets

Twtpoll web service which allows twitter users to have a poll functionality for their followers.

twtcard Quick post to let you know about twtcard which is a newish website that will let you send simple and fun cards, greetings or invitations to your Twitter buddies. Simply type in your message and your username, select one of the silly faces in the list and click create. You will then be presented with a link that you can copy into your tweet to send away.

Twit Buttons - another collection of Twitter buttons.

Twitter Buttons - lots of sweet little buttons for you to embed.

TwitterFriends – discover your “meaningful network”. This is pretty neat, it shows who you are most frequently conversing with. Lots of graphs and clouds. Yay!

twitority- Twitority is a new service that that facilitates the search and sorting of keywords in Twitter by authority, or in less controversial terms, popularity.

TwitterGadget - Twitter gadget that works with iGoogle or Gmail.

My Tweet Space - “customise and brand your Twitter space”. Select a background, input contact details etc. and upload photos.

tweetshrink - shorten tweets to make the 140 character limit. This is a web based version of the TweetDeck shrink button.

Tweetree - displays your Twitter stream in a tree so you can see conversations more easily.

My First Follow – Find out who you followed first on Twitter. Note that you need to be logged in to Twitter (but when are you ever not logged in, huh?)

Tweetwasters – calculate how much time you spend on Twitter.

Twilert – sign up for email alerts of tweets containing the keywords you specify. Of course you could just use Twitter Search and pinch the RSS.

Qwitter - informs you when a someone unfollows you

TwitClicks - shorten URLs and view click stats.

FriendOrFollow – find out who’s not following you back by entering your Twitter username.

Twitfessions - Tweet your secrets. Add #confession to your Tweet to add.

Tw-autocomplete - Firefox extension that adds autocomplete support for @-messages and d-messages, meaning when you type @ or d you get a little drop down menu of friends to choose from.

Twitmarks - guess a person’s gender from their Twitter stream.

Twitter Patterns - free patterns for your Twitter background.

Twitter Gallery - lots of Twitter themes.

Twitemperature - Find out how hot you are. How does it work it all out? “We poll your last several hundred tweets and score what you’re saying against what everyone else is saying in current hot conversations on Twitter and elsewhere.”

Twitter Venn – enter 2 or 3 search terms and see results displayed in a pretty Venn.

Destroy Twitter – Adobe AIR Twitter client.

Twitlonger – Write more than 140 characters, describes itself as Twitpic for text. DM @stuartgibson for an invite to the Beta.

Mr Tweet - get recommendations on who you should follow (based on your extended Twitter network) from Mr Tweet (who is an owl btw).

Twits Near Me – displays (an automatically refreshes) recent Tweets from people near you.

twit.pix.ly – rate the avatars of the Twitterers you follow in some kind of crazy (and perhaps a little dull) avatar smackdown.

Twuffer - schedule future Tweets. Why? Recommended uses include:

* Tweet hourly/daily/monthly announcements
* appointment/milestone reminders
* run a time-based scavenger hunt
* notify subscribers about upcoming podcast or video episodes
* appear to never sleep

Twply – get your Twitter @ replies sent to you via email.

2tweet - email multiple photos and videos with a message to 2tweet and they will Tweet on your behalf, including a link to a slideshow of your pics or vids.

Twoogie – for Doogie Howser fans, web interface for updating Twitter.

My Twitter Notebook - Follow @tweetnote (and wait for them to follow you back), you can then send notes via direct message and recall them by tag. Not tested this one out yet, there seems to be a bit of a lag with the follow back.

tweetchat – create rooms in Twitter to ‘chat’ about a particular topic.

Happy Tweets – Find out how happy your Tweets are. Why? No idea.

Twitterless - be informed when people stop following you Graphs available too, so you can track your social death.

Twitroid – Twitter app for Android mobiles.

Toro - Adobe AIR Twitter client which uses “an experimental Twitter client library that removes the Twitter API limit”.

Lazy Tweet - ask a question, include the words lazytweet or lazyweb. Questions get re-posted to the Lazy Tweet site and if someone supplies you with an answer they will @ you to let you know.

TweetRemote – add Tweets to your blog, but with the option to restrict what gets re-posted.

Twitly - group your friends and followers.

Twidge – “Twidge is a full command-line client. It is designed to be useful when you’re sitting at a shell prompt.

UTF8Twitter - Greasemonkey script that adds a bar to the top of your Twitter page so you can add UTF8 characters at the click of a button.

LastFM Love/Twitter Mashup – “any track that you ‘love’ on lastfm will automatically generate a tweet from you that has the track’s artist and name, as well as a link to it so your followers can give it a listen.”

TwitWall - “blog companion to Twitter”. Kind of like a tumblelog, using the Twitter style interface. Lets you write expanded Twitter posts, including media. Automatically Tweets a link to your post and the post title.

Twitter League – “Have a group of users and want to see who has more followers? Well now you can with TwitterLeague.” And that’s about it.

Tweader - track Twitter conversations by status ID.

TwitterKeys - little symbols to “enhance your Twitter”. Add the TwitterKeys bookmarklet to your browser to drag/drop or copy in.

TwitterMyFlickr – send photos to your Flickr and Tweet them from your Windows Mobile.

Tweetrush – Twitter statistics.

Tweet Grader - “evaluate your Twitter profile”. Basically works out your ‘grade’ based on you friend to follower ratio and other stuff.

Syrinx - customisable Twitter client for Mac OS X. Lets you bookmark Tweets and search. Quite interesting and attractive looking, but initially a little confusing and not as straightforward as something like TweetDeck.

Twignature - create little Twitter buttons of all sizes with you username on them.

TwitterSafe - back up your Twitter followers.

Tweetake - back up your friends, followers and Tweets. Enter your username and password to download as a CSV.

TwitStamp – turn your Tweets into images. Enter your username to create an image of your latest Tweet or a single Tweet id. If you have a protected account you will need to follow @twitstamp.

AddTweets – add your Tweets to you blog. Enter your Twitter username and your email address and opt for displaying your last Tweet only or up to 10 of your latest Tweets. The design is pretty basic, but customisable up to a point.

Pikter - send pics to Twitter via upload or email, also suports Jaiku. At the moment this is in private beta.

What’s Up – sidebar gadget for Vista.

Follow Me Badges/Logos/Buttons – from Lime Shot.

Twitter Follow Me Wallpaper

GPS Twit – update Twitter with your location for iPhone and Windows Mobile.

Twit-it! - Tweet links to pages you are browsing.

FLOAT Twitter - view your Twitter friends as scattered thumbnail avatars, hover over to see part of bio and latest Tweet.

TwitterWhere - update Twitter with your location. Login to TwitterWhere, mark where you are on the Google Map (drag and drop) and post the map link to Twitter.

Twummize – lets you view the Twitter web interface and Twitter Search/Summize in a split screen set up.

TweetMyPage – post webpages you are browsing to Twitter via a browser bookmarklet.

twitt’d - use Twitter via IM. Works with Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, Jabber and Yahoo! Messenger.

Better Twitter Replies - Greasemonkey script that nests your Twitter replies.

So What Am I? - Twitter guessing game, send your puzzle to @SoWhatAmI and the rest of Twitter gets to guess, e.g. “@SoWhatAmI I am a Cetacean and I signify not winning”

Chirp 2.0 - Mac desktop widget for posting and reading Tweets.

My Tweet Map - Google Maps mashup, showing you where your friends are Tweeting from.

Twadl.com - lets you post to Twitter and attach files (images only at the moment, but MP3s promised soon). The other interesting feature is ’shortlinks’, which should enable you to track how many people are clicking on the links you post, but didn’t work for me when I tested it.

p-twit - post Tweets from your PSP. Must have working WLAN connection. I don’t have a PSP so couldn’t try ths one out.

TwitHire - “free job board service for Twitter”. So far jobs can be posted in one of three categories: design, programming or other.

Twitter Bird Icons and Illustration - free from Pasquale D’Silva, cute spin on the Twitter bird icon.

Tune Tweeter - posts what you’re playing on iTunes to Twitter. Note – see the ‘Requisite Public Service Announcement’ as the developer says this could generate mo’ Tweets than you bargained for.

tweetparty - group your friends and message them all in one go.

Twitter Psm Pusher – Windows Live Messenger extension. Automatically updates Twitter with your Windows Messenger personal status.

TwitterFresh - view the Twitter web interface via TwitterFresh, set the number of minutes you would like it to refresh in and it will count down and automatically refresh the page for you.

TwitArcs - “Enter a twitter ID with the leading ‘@’ or a word. Arcs are drawn on the left connecting people that are repeated and on the right for common repeated terms.” i.e. more crazy Twitter visuals.

Twitterlight - Microsoft Silverlight Twitter client. Post to Twitter and view Tweets, replies, archive and public timeline. Couldn’t see a way to view direct messages. Does enable you to resize the display and zoom in on Tweets.

Twit Today - Twitter client for Windows mobile. Note that “this is a ‘Today screen‘ plugin – which means it is for the Today screen that you get on touchscreen devices.”

TwitterBash - post your favourite Tweets to TwitterBash and they can be rated by others (votes are registered as Karma). Also provides code for you to embed Tweets.

Twitter Tag - generates automatic, updating Twitter images for your blogs/MySpace, etc. Badge includes your recent tweet, name, picture, update total and links to your recent tweet. Colours are customisable.

Twit4Live - Windows Messenger Live extension. Lets you update your Twitter status, but also view Tweets.

Replize - simply way of checking your @ replies. Also picks up those that feature “@usename” elsewhere in the post (i.e. not at the start), but obviously leaves out those belonging to people with protected Tweets.

Twiffid - “automatically detects the feeds of the websites your Twitter friends have listed in their Twitter profiles and presents them to you in a Twitter-like format.”

Roomatic - “Roomatic is a experiment to create a chatroom-like user interface on top of Twitter.” Uses Twitter Search (Summize) to search for Tweets containing the rooms name (this can also be a URL).

Glossy Twitter Icons - from AODdesign.

Twitspam – blog that highlights Twitter spammers and provides you with a quick link to block them.

Twitch – Adobe Air Twitter client for Windows and Mac.

Easy Tweets - manage your multiple Twitter accounts, schedule Tweets for future posting and add RSS feeds for auto posting.

Twitter StreamGraphs - search for a term and the latest 200 Tweets containing that term will be displayed in a graph format. Search @username to display the latest Tweets from that user.

TwitterScript - Greasemonkey script that puts a very small (and discrete) Twitter status box in the corner of your browser screen for you to update your Twitter status from.

tweetpaste – spot a good Tweet and fancy embedding it in your blog/website? Enter the URL of the Tweet and Tweet Paste will generate some code for you to use. There is also a plugin available for WordPress.

Twitter Treats - v. cute wallpapers, icons and more!

Twittelator – client for the iPhone/iPod Touch, downloadable from the iTunes app store.

TwitterMan – AIM plugin, updates your Twitter status automatically when you set it on AIM. AIM 6.8 or better.

Twitter Reloaded Userscript - “For Fluid: Reloads Twitter every two minutes with an in-page countdown. If there is any text in the status box reloads are postponed.”

twitterbacks.com – free Twitter backgrounds (.PSD) “to help you have a more professional look.”

DivVoted – share your fave sites on Twitter. Follow @divvoted then cast your vote and reason, e.g. “@divvoted http://www.twitterapps.co.uk there are no words”.

Matt – post to multiple Twitter accounts without having to login in to each one individually.

Twitter WordPress Plugin - Autolink to Username – when you include @username in a post it will automatically link to the Twitter user’s page. Not tried this one, let me know what you think.

TweetDeck - desktop client with a difference. As well as letting you Tweet and read Tweets, TweetDeck also lets you group the people you are following and set up searches so that you receive Tweets matching your selected terms as they appear.

twii.it - bookmark web pages and send links to Twitter. Users can add the bookmarklet to their browsers and there is code available for blogger to add to their page templates.

Spamlets – share your comedy spam via Twitter. Example “#spamlet Add more inches to your shaft”. That’s a real example btw.

Twitter2FB - Greasemonkey script that lets you update your Facebook status with your Twitter status.

Twitter 90% - userscript for if you like your Twitter a little bigger. “This style make Twitter a little more bigger, for big screen resolutions. Also, has a few change in fonts and headers.”

Feedtweeter - feed your Plurks to your Twitter account. Currently you need an invite code but you can request one from @steffest.

Twitter Friends Stream – crazy display of your Twitter friends, click on a name to view their latest Tweets.

Twitterfountain - embeddable widget that displays Tweets and Flickr images sharing the same tags.

hiimok – Twitter Gifts – send gifts to your Twitter friends.

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