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Great roundup. Looks like I have some playing to do because I haven’t heard of several of these.

isn’t too much twitter?

@Sean McCambridge: Because Twitter is everywhere and everyone is using it, even for porn website for god sake! I won’t post the twitter url here of course, but just want to stress that Twitter is a great marketing tools and companies starting to use Twitter more and more!

great finds…:)

@Sean McCambridge I agree, not the better way to start the article. Though, I’d like to show that phrase to my French friends that ignore the exitence of twitter and worst, find it useless comparing with facebook! Hope twitter will know the success it deserves here and one day one would say “si vous n’avez jamais entendu parlé de twitter, c’est vraiment que vous ne sortez jamais de chez vous”!

99, 50, 75, … so many long lists. Yes, it’s useful to get in one place all those links. But, isn’t it too much ? There’s a point where a list is relevant and a point where it is just another list among a bunch of long lists. At least, put a table of contents at the top of the article. Great effort in all cases.

Thanks for the list which covers most applications I appreciate. I strongly suggest you also check out http://MicroPlaza.com and its Tribal Search which has just been released under private beta and which provides a mix of Digg, Delicious and RSS that allows you to browse, search and monitor relevant news tweeted by the people or groups of people you follow… and lot’s more.

An example is this search for the most popular and freshest articles from the Smashing Magazine website: http://microplaza.com/search?q=url%3Awww.smashingmagazine.com

Yeah for twitter. Now I can read nonsense from people I don’t know. Myspace and Facebook commments took just too long to read. Anyone else hear of grunter?

I just don’t get what in the world is so great about twitter that every third article here on smashingmag has to feature the great 1000 brand new twitter uber-cool-extensions that makes telling everyone at what time you take a shit even faster and easier…

If there are 99 ESSENTIAL Twitter tools then tweeting just got way too complicated for me.

Twitter is completely useless, I really dont understand the enthousiasm around this thing… But I also dont understand the frequency of articles about it.

Twitter Tools?
You’re missing the main one, YOU.
You can use every single one of these tools, but without YOU tweeting interesting things, what’s the point?

And to the person/people who think twitter is useless.
I’ve got work through twitter, and all i had to do was be myself.
It’s a fantastic community full of interesting people.
I understand why people may not want to use it, but to call it useless is going a bit far.
It has a use, just maybe not for you.

hootsuite is pretty awesome! It allows to connect and update to one or more twitter accounts at the same time.

favrd.com

the most favored tweets a day.

Enough already!

Great list. There is actually a new useful tool just released last week called twendz. It helps get through the clutter.

http://twendz.waggeneredstrom.com/

twendz is a Twitter mining Web application that utilizes the power of Twitter Search, highlighting conversation themes and sentiment of the tweets that talk about topics you are interested in. As the conversation changes, so does twendz by evaluating up to 70 tweets at a time. When new tweets are posted, they are dynamically updated, minute by minute.

You forgot lasttweet.com – Last.fm and Twitter’s offspring :-)

Sorry about my rather spammy previous comment. Seems this site’s HTML parser mangles things a lot. Those links were supposed to be named “Tweetmeme”, “Tweetmeme button” and “Tweetmeme Wordpress widget” respectively.

i found it’s too much twitter stuff, you’re posting. Twitter is booooring

I’d mention Tweetizen in here too. More robust and useful app than a lot of those mentioned here.

What about CMYKTweet?
It’s a nice mashup to tweet in CMYK! :)

twitter.com/joffrey
Geek and Hype

Stop this right now. 99 *essential* tools? This bullshit must stop.

Don’t forget about BubbleTweet as well.

Let’s you place a video message ON your Twitter page…no link off’s.

Check it at: http://www.bubbletweet.com

You forgot FlashTweet.. the bulk follow/unfollow tool!

I suggest this site, http://www.twtmap.com, for ppl create a map url and tweet it.

Hello everyone, it’s Bigdoggpinc. If it is useful you know I am close by trying to get the word out about it! I learned about most of these from M…. and I was glad they are Twitter users as well. Even found my Pastor of my church is on Twitter. These tools helps you stay really connected, with power networking at its best. My network is stronger thanks to these tools. – TRY IT!

Thanks for including my TwitterCounter WordPress plugin in the list :)

Thanx for the list. Just added the TwitterBar for Firefox.

I would suggest http://www.mobypicture.com, because it’s a fast, versatile and reliable way to post pictures to twitter, and work better and more reliable than twitpic. it supports video too!

Thanks for this article! I used loads of you’re links to fil up Twlinks.org . Twlinks is a Twitter link page where you can share interesting Twitter links and share them with others! Check it out:

Don’t forget the Ultimate Twitter (humor) Service!

http://www.TwitterBudgie.com

:)

There are also http://hellotxt.com that allow you to manage one or more twitter account and other microblogging tools.

some sites like you still trying to pump twitter. just give up twitter is NOT the next big thing. and please do not abuse words like “essential”. 99 essential tool just for twitter. L O L

Also, you should take a look at http://www.tweetpoint.me, pretty cool web app developed to let the users rate other users on the things they are tweeting about. Check it out!

The article is extensive and good. But I also agree with many that it is way too long and the title is misleading. No way there can be 99 essential applications. Essential means you cannot do without it, and none in the list are essential in that way, they’re all optional enrichments of Twitter.

I don’t know about the rest, but I visit sites like Smashing too save time, they do the excellent work in compiling these great lists. Lately, however, the lists are becoming so long that they do the opposite: they only costs me MORE time. I’m know at a point where if I see a list like this, I usually skip it all together. Who has the time to read about 99 Twitter applications? Just give me a top 5 or 10.

This has nothing to do with the quality of the content or the extensive effort that went into that. It’s just that the purpose of finding only the best content is defeated this way.

TweetDeck the best:)

Twitsrc lets you post code snippets to Twitter.

I’m confused. What’s a twitter?

WTF !!… this is like TOO MUCH !!

You might also check CloudBerry’s Twitter plug-in (TweetIE) for Internet Explorer if you like to surf the web with Microsoft products.

Cheers, Jessica

http://chilp.it/tweetie

It’sofficial. Twitter has reached the tipping point.

Incredible list!

Very useful, thanks for posting

Twitter is just “exciting” I guess because its so damn easy. In fact its so easy thats why its a little difficult to “get it”.

The list above is just a fine example of the mad amount of tools out there but not one of them is ever “essential”. They are only essential if you need them and if you need them they they are worth it!

I hope the momentum keeps going, I love to see these new apps appearing and the crazy ideas people have and the things they can produce. Just look at twitter as the new form of text on phones that’s free and soon to replace mobile texting…and maybe even google search…but that’s a different story isnt it.

Great!

Awesome list.

You might want to check out Twitdom also. It is a Twitter Applications Database with nearly 600 Twitter Applications listed.

Thank you so much!!! Very helpful. I never realized Twitter had such a vast amount of apps o.O Twitter is taking over the internet.

You forgot another good one for knowing who’s following you, StillFollowingMe.com. You enter a specific username and see if they are still following your account. Really easy to use. Doesn’t require you to give up your passwords. Otherwise! Great list!

Well i for one got slightly unerved and interested all at the same time with this list.. Tweetdomion….

If you think all this is good then wait till you see the NextWave 3 of Showcaze (www.showcaze.co.uk).

Showcaze is currently achieving a higher revenue per subscriber than Twitter, Facebook and many of the Freebie sites.

What matters most in the real world is that you have CUSTOMERS willing to PAY for your services, because they find the service useful, not just novel. Anyone can flog a Freebie.

I can’t believe Tweetie was missed. It totally made me doubt the entire list. Tweetie for iPhone and now for Mac is by far the best Twitter app…

Great list. I wanted to make sure everyone was aware of the ongoing poll going on in the Twitterverse to vote on the current Best Twitter client. Check it out here:

http://bit.ly/rr9Hx

and vote for your favorite. If you pass it on to others, please use the #topclient hashtag.

John Moore

Extremely informative..

TwitWishList.Com- Just made a web application that combines twitter with your amazon wishlist. TwitWishList connects your twitter account with your amazon wish list. You announce the event you want to celebrate and when and TwitWishList announces/tweets your special occassion and provides a link to your wish list so your followers can buy you a gift and celebrate with you.

TweetLister is a free service that allows real estate brokers and owners to take full advantage of the vast, wide-reaching social network on Twitter. With TweetLister, you can easily create, post, manage and schedule all of your Twitter listings. A must have for anyone renting or selling a property.

It’s also a great search tool for those looking to buy or rent a home or office. The TweetLister search engine can be found here.

I noticed a few friend management tools in the list, my most frequently used one is probably tweeptracker.com simple and straightforward but saves me a lot of time. Allows me to see who i follow but doesnt follow back, then unfriend or block as I like. As well as adding those that follow me but I don’t follow.

http://www.tweeptracker.com

Very nice list!

I have also done up a list as well. The Ultimate List of Twitter Tools @ The Social Media Guide http://bit.ly/zhXUv

I’m starting a new Twitter app that will work like Tweetdeck but also allow you to do a whole lot more. Lots more columns will be allowed and up to five accounts on at the same time. I haven’t gotten it completely done yet and need some testers to try it out and tell me whether they like it. Just email me and I’ll give you an invitation to check it out.

Translate your tweet into your choice of over 40 languages and post automatically and intermediately.

You can also view previous translated tweets to help you learn new words and keep track of your conversations.

Tweet Translate

Hi

Just launched a very original and funny application called TwitterLoo, hope its good enough to make your list :)

TwitterLoo.com

Very comprehensive. Thanks

A great new twitter friend adder (and cheap) at http://twitterontherun.com
Great for adding friends on twitter. Runs in the background slowly finding people and getting rid of people that don’t follow you back. You can target who you want to follow. Great twitter tool.

A great list. I’m not sure our app is “essential”, but it’s a lot of fun – it’s free Twitter printer that makes printer friendly output from your Twitter tweets. You can include Twitpic.com images and user avatars. Try it and see, it’s http://twitprint.com

Just played with a new twitter tool at a conference I was at and HAVE to pass it on as it was magical. http://www.tweettoolbox.com It hasn’t been “officially” released yet but you can get in on it for free if you sign up now.

I think that link was bad in the previous comment. Here is the correct website for Autopilot Tweet:
http://www.autopilottweet.com

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URLMINIFIER.COM .. other tool…

Another app worth mentioning is – http://TweetMiner.net – brings together an RSS reader and Twitter into one nice simple, clean interface. It allows the user to instantly post from the feeds to Twitter. It also allows the user to schedule the Tweet for a later time.