Ok so You heard of TWITTER! Now see all the copy-cats... but useful Apps!

Ok so You heard of TWITTER! Now see all the copy-cats... but useful Apps!
Date Saturday, May 2nd 2009, 8:41 PM Icon 78 Date 0

Twhirl - twhirl.org : A pc desktop app that lets you track and update tweets without having a browser window open. Contributed by @WarrenWhitlock

Twitterific - iconfactory.com A desktop Twitter client for Macs only. Contributed by @SorterSuzy

MadTwitter - www.madtwitter.com : A Windows app that’s inspired by the Mac application, Twitterrific. Contributed by @MarkRess

Tweetdeck - www.tweetdeck.com :Adobe Air desktop application that enables users to split tweets into topic or group specific columns. Contributed by @CoachDeb

Pwytter - www.pwytter.com : Twitter client for Windows, Mac & Linux. Available in 14 languages.
Contributed by @SharonMcP

Twitux - fosswire.com A native GTK/Gnome desktop client for Twitter. Contributed by @SharonMcP
Mobile Twitter Applications

Twinkle - tapulous.com : A Twitter application for the iPhone.

Twitter for iPhone - twitterforiphone.com : Update your status, follow your friends, view profiles and add new friends from your iPhone. Contributed by @SharonMcP

Ping.fm - ping.fm : Use AIM, GTalk, iGoogle, WAP, iPhone/iPod Touch, SMS or E-mail and let Ping.fm relay your message to a multitude of social networking sites, including Twitter. Contributed by @Blogi360

Tiny Twitter - tinytwitter.com:Love tweeting from your mobile device but don’t want to get dinged for updates and double dinged for friend’s updates arriving via SMS? Tiny Twitter is just what you are looking for! Contributed by @SharonMcP

TwitterBerry - orangatame.com A mobile client for posting updates to Twitter from your Blackberry. Contributed by @SharonMcP

PocketTweets - www.pockettweets.com : Update your Twitter status from anywhere using your iPhone. Contributed by @SharonMcP
Twitter File Sharing Applications

Twitpic - twitpic.com : Enables you to share photos on Twitter and let your followers comment on them. Contributed by @Shane

Tweetr - www.tweet-r.com : Desktop application that enables you to send files to your followers and take pictures using your webcam. Contributed by @SharonMcP

Tweetcube - tweetcube.com : A file sharing service for Twitter. You can upload as many images, archives, videos and songs as you want and share them on Twitter with your followers. Contributed by @SharonMcP

Twixxer - twixxer.com : A photo and video sharing component for Twitter. It is comprised of a browser add-on and a web service that enables you to view videos and picturesdirectly from your Twitter home page. Contributed by @SharonMcP

Send Video and Voice Twitter Updates

Jott - jott.com : Jott.com’s voice-to-text service converts your spoken words into Tweets - all with a simple phone call.. Contributed by @DaveTaylor

TwitSay - twitsay.com : Enables you to make a voice “tweet” from your phone that will then be added to your Twitter timeline. Contributed by @SharonMcP

Utterz - www.utterz.com : Utters can be audio, video, pictures and text. You can create or join a discussion from any mobile phone or computer. Contributed by @WarrenWhitlock

Phweet - phweet.com : Lets you accept calls with one click from your Twitter page or Twitter clients. You don’t need to download or share anything more to talk because the call is contained within a PhweetUrl; a smart link that calls you. Contributed by @SharonMcP

TwitterFone - www.twitterfone.com : A free service that lets you update your Twitter feed using your voice from any mobile or cell phone. You call it, speak your tweet, and hang up. A short while later, your tweet will be posted on Twitter. Contributed by @WayneSutton

Seesmic - www.seesmic.com : Seesmic is a video sharing service just like YouTube, Vimeo, Viddler, etc. However; when you post a video on Seesmic, it can send an update to your Twitter account. Contributed by @Blogi360

Eyejot This! - www.eyejot.com A bookmarklet that enables you to send Eyejot video messages pertaining to web sites you visit directly to your Twitter account. Your Eyejot message will automatically contain a link to the page you’re on along with the page title. You create your Eyejot video using only your webcam and microphone. Contributed by @SharonMcP

Research, Find and Manage Followers

Twitter Search - search.twitter.com : Enables you to find out what’s happening in the world beyond your personal Twitter timeline. Twitter Search (formerly Summize) helps you filter all the real-time information coursing through Twitter. Contributed by @AdamDesAutels and @WarrenWhitlock

Twitterholic - www.twitterholic.com Shows the top 100 users on Twitter based on number of followers. Contributed by @MarkRess

Top 100 Tweeters - www.twittercounter.com The top 100 most popular Twitter users. Updated daily. Contributed by @GeekMommy

TwitDir - www.twitdir.com : A Twitter User Directory. Contributed by @Blogi360

Tweetbeep - tweetbeep.com : Like Google alerts for Twitter! Sends alerts by email when a tweet matches your search. Contributed by @RoyMontero & @MariSmith

Twemes - twemes.com : Through the use of twemes or hashtags (#) you can view what people are talking about across the Twitterverse. Contributed by @AdamDesAutels and @WarrenWhitlock

Tweetscan - www.tweetscan.com : A real-time search engine for Twitter that will also deliver results via email. ontributed by @CoachDeb

Twist - twist.flaptor.com : Enables you to see and graphically chart popular trends being discussed on Twitter. Contributed by @SuzysPlace

Tweet 2 Tweet - tweet2tweet.com : Tracks the public timelines to collect data in order to view conversations between two Twitter users. Contributed by @LindaLocke

TwitterSafe - twittersafe.com : If you lost your Followers, Following, and Replies on ‘Black Tweetsday’, you know the panic and fear that raced through the Twitterverse. Now there is a solution, to keep YOU Safe..TwitterSafe! Your One-Click Backup and Restoration Vault! Contributed by @CoachDeb

Tweetake - tweetake.com : Lets you back up your followers, friends, tweets and everything else that you may have on Twitter. Contributed by @CoachDeb

TweetStats - tweetstats.com : Provides colourful graphs on month-to-month, daily and hourly tweets, people replied to most, and interfaces preferred for individual Twitter users. Contributed by @MattSurfs

TwitterBuzz - www.twitterbuzz.com : TwitterBuzz collects links that are mentioned on Twitter and arranges them in order of popularity. You can view links mentioned in the last hour, day, week, or forever (since archival started). Contributed by @MarkRess

Twitter Karma - dossy.org : A flash application that fetches your friends and followers from Twitter when you click the “Whack!” button, then displays them for you, letting you quickly paginate through them. Contributed by @DaveWebb

Twitscoop - www.twitscoop.com : Twitscoop crawls hundreds of tweets every minute and extracts the words which are mentionned more often than usual. The result is displayed in a Tag Cloud, using the following rule: the hotter the subject, the bigger the tag text. Contributed by @SharonMcP

Quotably - quotably.com : In addition to seeing what’s the most popular conversations on Twitter, Quotably.com also enables you to read the entire conversations of Twitter users. Contributed by @SharonMcP

DoesFollow - doesfollow.com : Answers the question “does (Twitter username) follow (Twitter username)?” Contributed by @SharonMcP

Twellow - www.twellow.com : Enables you to search for people on Twitter or, if you don’t exactly know who you’re looking for, you can search by categories sorted by keywords related to such things as industry, interests, or hobbies. Patty said this about Twellow on the TwitterHandbook blog, “I think this will be a great resource for all Twitter users to find people on Twitter they have something in common with based on niche.” Contributed by @littlebytesnews

My Tweeple - www.mytweeple.com : Lists people you are following and your Twitter followers in alphabetic order. You can follow, unfollow, block or ding spammers. Ding=bad. Contributed by @SharonMcP

Twitterdex - twitterdex.com
Publicize your Twitter account as well as find other popular Twitterers.
Contributed by @SharonMcP

TwitterLocal - www.twitterlocal.net
Lets you find Twitter users around a certain area. Just enter a city, state, postal code, choose the range of miles you want to include and hit the button. Contributed by @SharonMcP

TwitterPoster - twitterposter.com
Provides a visual representation of the degree of influence of the Twitter users. Contributed by @SharonMcP

PicoBuzz - Your Buzz Chart for Twitter - www.picobuzz.com
A web app that extracts current buzzlike activity from Twitter. Data is pulled–and statistics are updated–frequently (on the order of minutes). Cool tool to see what the hottest trends of the moment are. Contributed by @SharonMcP

TwitterSnooze - twittersnooze.com
Lets you temporarily block the tweets of people that get noisy for a 24-hour period. This is especially good when someone goes to a conference that you’re following and tweeting in blog-like fashion the day’s events. Contributed by @SharonMcP
Locate and Publicize Twitter Meetups (Tweetups)

Triangle Tweetups - triangletweetup.pbwiki.com
Schedule of meetups of Twitter users from NC.
Contributed by @WayneSutton

Twitzu Events for Twitter - www.twitzu.com
Having a meetup, get together or party? Publicize it on Twitzu while blasting it out to your Twitter followers. Contributed by @SharonMcP

Browser and Blog Twitter Applications

Flock Social Media Web Browser - flock.com
Flock makes it easy to discover, access, create and share videos, photos, blogs, feeds and comments across social communities, including Twitter. Contributed by @flocker

TwitterCounter - www.twittercounter.com
A counter for bloggers and webmasters that shows the number of followers you have on Twitter. Contributed by @WarrenWhitlock

Twitzer - shorttext.com
A Firefox extension that lets you post tweets longer than 140 characters.
Contributed by @SharonMcP

TwitterFox - addons.mozilla.org
A Firefox Addon which allows you to update and view your friends’ status without logging into Twitter on the web. Contributed by @LisaPreston

RSS2Twitter - www.pivari.com
A freeware perl tool (or a Windows executable) to send to Twitter (batch) the links and posts of a RSS feed. Contributed by @MarkRess

Shareaholic - shareaholic.com Makes it easy for you to submit the web page you’re on to your favorite social, sharing and bookmarking services. Contributed by @MarkRess

TwittyTunes - www.foxytunes.com
A FoxyTunes companion Firefox extension that allows you to post your currently playing songs to Twitter with a click. Contributed by @MarkRess

TweetMyBlog - www.tweetmyblog.com
Twitter Plugin for Wordpress that automatically posts to Twitter when you update your blog. Contributed by @SharonMcP

TwitterCard - twittercard.com
A Twitter blog widget that acts as your Twitter business card by showing your recent status, picture and location. Contributed by @SharonMcP

Twitterdoodle - www.lessnau.com
Wordpress plugin that creates automatic mashup posts relevant to your site’s content from the daily chatter that goes on at Twitter. Contributed by @SharonMcP

Twitter Badge - www.widgetbox.com
A Twitter widget you can add to your blog or website to keep your readers up-to-date on your latest tweets. Contributed by @SharonMcP

Feedtweeter - feedtweeter.com
Feedtweeter adds your Plurks and Identi.ca updates to Twitter and the other way aound in a sane way, but it (should) work with any RSS feed. Contributed by @SharonMcP

TwitThis - www.twitthis.com
When visitors to your website click on the TwitThis button or link, it takes the URL of the webpage and creates a shorter URL using TinyURL. Then visitors can send this shortened URL and a description of the webpage to all of their friends on Twitter. You can also add the TwitThis bookmarklet to your browser’s toolbar to send a message through Twitter about any page you are viewing. Contributed by @SharonMcP

TwitBin - www.twitbin.com
Send and receive Twitter updates, right from your Firefox browser.
Contributed by @SharonMcP

TwitterBook - addons.mozilla.org
Firefox add-on that enables you to Tweet your favorite sites when you bookmark them on your browser. Contributed by @SharonMcP

TwitterBar - addons.mozilla.org TwitterBar allows you to post to Twitter from Firefox’s address bar. Contributed by @SharonMcP

Chirrup - chirrup.angryamoeba.co.uk
A Twitter comment system for your blog. Contributed by @SharonMcP

Twitterfeed - twitterfeed.com
Checks your blog’s feed at the intervals you specify and post any new items to your Twitter followers. Contributed by @SharonMcP
Web-Based Twitter Resources

Twitrefresh - www.twitrefresh.com
A web-based application that automatically refreshes your Twitter homepage every 60 seconds. Contributed by @SharonMcP

Tweetlater - www.tweetlater.com
Enables you to schedule future-dated tweets, automatically follow new users and send automated thank you notes to your new followers. Contributed by @SuzysPlace

Alt Code Characters - www.alt-codes.net
Enables you to add symbols such as hearts, smiley faces, the sun, musical notes and more to your Tweets using the alt key and 0-255 decimal numbers. Contributed by @MariSmith

Twiddict - twiddict.com Lets you tweet even when Twitter is down. Tweet your heart out through Twiddict and avoid life-changing withdrawal symptoms during Twitter downtime. Contributed by @CoachDeb

Twiffid - www.twiffid.com
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. Contributed by @JPmicek

OutTwit – OutTwit.com
An add-in for Outlook. Andrea Kalli commented on the Twitter Handbook blog, “I’m in Outlook all day and it just makes it easier for me to browse, post, and reply to Twitter posts.”
Contributed by Andrea Kalli

TwitterMail - www.twittermail.com
Enables you to send Twiter updates from your email client. Will also send you an email of all @ replies sent to you. Contributed by @SharonMcP

Twitter Ratio - twitterratio.com
Your Twitter Ratio is the ratio of your followers to friends (or people who you follow). It is measured with the TFF Ratio (Twitter Follower-Friend Ratio). The higher the ratio, the more Twitter heat you pack. Contributed by @Corvida

ReplyBot - www.financialaidpodcast.com
Scans the last 20 replies in your stream and auto-follows everyone who has replied to you recently. Contributed by @SharonMcP

Twitturly - twitturly.com
Twitt(url)y is a service for tracking what URLs people are discussing on Twitter. Kind of like Digg for Twitter. Contributed by @SaleZy

Twittervision - twittervision.com
See tweets from all over the world on an interactive map.
Contributed by @MarkRess

Twordy - twordy.com
Twordy lets you post as many characters as you wish. The service simply updates your Twitter account with a link to the longer, wordier, Twordy. Contributed by @SharonMcP

Tweetburner - tweetburner.com
Tweetburner lets you track what happens with the links you share on Twitter. Contributed by @SharonMcP

Tweetmarks - tweetmarks.com
Easily organize the links you share on Twitter! Tweetmarks can even add your links to del.icio.us automatically! Contributed by @SharonMcP

TweetAnswers - tweetanswers.com
Like merging Yahoo! Answers with Twitter. Contributed by @SharonMcP

SecretTweet - secrettweet.com
Tweet your secrets to the Twitterverse anonymously. Shhhh!
Contributed by @SharonMcP

TweetUpsideDown - brad.globeproductions.com.au
A fun app created by @4fthawaiian that enables you to send upside down tweets. (This is just for kicks and to get your readers to think differently by reading your tweets differently. Well, at least that’s my take on this fun app. @CoachDeb)

Tweetclouds - www.tweetclouds.com
Make a word cloud from a public Twitter stream.
Contributed by @JPmicek

Twitscoop - www.twitscoop.com
Twitscoop was built to help you stay on top of twitter’s hot topics or discussions. Contributed by @JPmicek