99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications
If you haven’t heard of Twitter by now, you must be living under a rock! It is everywhere, and everyone is using it. To say that the rise of Twitter has been explosive would be an understatement. As a result of this growth, the number of Twitter apps and tools available has become extensive. So, in this post we have filtered them down to a respectable 99.
Below, we present 99 Essential Twitter Tools and Applications, split into the following categories: Tools and Productivity Apps, Statistics and Analytics, Find New Twitter Friends Apps, Search Twitter Apps, Web-Based Mobile Apps, WordPress Twitter Plug-Ins, Adobe Air Twitter Apps and Firefox Twitter Extensions.
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Tools and Productivity Apps
Twittercal
Twittercal is a service that connects your Twitter account to your Google Calendar and lets you add events easily, directly from your Twitter account.
Twitpay
TwitPay is a simple way to send payments via Twitter.
Twibs
Find, follow and interact with businesses, apps and services on Twitter.
Twittermail.com
Users can post to their Twitter account by sending a message to their own unique email address.
Twitzu
Promote your business, special offers, promotions and events with Twitzu.
Twuffer
Twuffer allows the Twitter user to compose a list of future tweets and schedule their release.
TweetLater
This app allows you to post Tweets at a later time and date.
GroupTweet
Send private Twitter messages to specific groups of friends.
Twitter Alerts
Keep track of conversations that mention you, your products, your company and anything else, via hourly email updates.
TwitPic
TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter. You can post pictures to TwitPic from your phone, the TwitPic home page or your Twitter account.
Your Twitter Karma
Twitter needs a decent page for your followers, with the functionality to sort them by type. This Web app does that.
Mr. Tweet
A personal networking assistant for Twitter, helping you identify relevant followers, recommending you to other users and regularly computing your Twitter usage statistics.
Remember The Milk
Remember The Milk keeps track of your tasks. Simply add Remember The Milk as your friend, and you can add and interact with your tasks through direct messages and get reminders, too.
StrawPoll
StrawPoll is the coolest way to follow the opinions of people on Twitter. With this app, you can create your own poll.
Twiddict
If Twitter goes down and you start to feel withdrawal symptoms, use this service to continue using it. Twiddict makes sure all your tweets end up going to the proper place.
Twitter Friends Network Browser
Browse through your Twitter friends, your friends’ friends, your friends’ friends’ friends…
Twitterfeed
Post your RSS feed to Twitter automatically.
Twitturly
Twitturly is a service for tracking what URLs people are talking about, as they talk about them, on Twitter.
Twittonary
The Twitter Dictionary, aka Twittonary, provides explanations of various Twitter-related words.
twtQpon
Enhance your social media marketing by offering discount coupons to the Twitter-sphere!
twenglish
Twitter translator: Simply type in your tweet, and twenglish will twanslate your tweet for you.
twtcard
Send a greeting card, a surprise message or an invitation on Twitter.
Tweet What You Spend
Cash-tracking made simple with Twitter.
Twittertise
Twittertise allows you to advertise on Twitter and track the success of your branded communications with customers.
TwitWall
With TwitWall, you can embed your favorite videos and widgets and upload your photos, MP3 music, podcasts, you name it.
UnTweeps
Unfollow Tweeps who have not posted tweets recently.
TwitRand();
Select a random Twitter follower, friend or retweeter.
TwitBlocker
If you become overwhelmed by a Twitter user’s constant tweets, you can keep them quiet with a single click of a button.
Twitterless
Twitterless tells you who stops following you and graphs your follower history over time, displaying the info in a variety of useful views.
Twonvert
With Twonvert, you can easily convert your tweets into SMS shorthand language and say more with less characters.
Postica
Create a sticky note for your tweets.
twi8r
Translate from English to text message shorthand and vice versa.
Twitter Statistics and Analytics
Twitterholic.com
This website is constantly being updated to allow you to find the most popular Twitter users. Want to be on the list? Twitter constantly.
TweetStats
An app that tracks your number of tweets per hour and per month. It basically creates a graph based on your tweets.
Twitter Grader
Twitter Grader measures the power of your Twitter profile. How high do you rank?
twInfluence
Similar to Twitter Grader, twInfluence lets you calculate the indirect influence of you and your followers on Twitter.
TwitterCounter
A thorough analytical Web app.
tweetVolume
Enter keywords or a phrase and see how often it appears on Twitter.
Twist
See trends on Twitter; find out what’s hot and what people are saying about it.
TweetRush
TweetRush provides estimated statistics on Twitter usage over a period of time.
Tweetwasters
Just how much time do you spend on Twitter? Are you wasting time?
Find New Twitter Friends Apps
TwitterTroll.com
TwitterTroll.com is a real-time Twitter search engine to find new friends.
Just Tweet It
Just Tweet It makes it easier for tweeters to find other tweeters with similar interests.
Friend or Follow
Who are you following who is not following you back?
Qwitter: Catching Twitter quitters
Qwitter emails you when someone stops following you on Twitter.
Twubble
Twubble is a Twitter extension that helps you find more friends.
Twitter Follower-Friend Ratio
Your Twitter ratio is the ratio of your followers to friends (i.e. people you follow). It is measured with the TFF ratio (Twitter follower to friend ratio). The higher the ratio, the more Twitter heat you pack.
Nearby Tweets
Who is tweeting close to you? This app helps you connect with them.
Search Twitter Apps
WhosTalkin
WhosTalkin is a tool that allows users to search for conversations on the topics they care about most.
Twitter Search
Search Twitter is an excellent search engine that allows you to find out what’s happening in the world beyond your personal timeline.
Flaptor Twitter Search
Comprehensive Twitter search.
Twitscoop
Input a Twitter username or keywords in the Twitscoop search box to track a conversation, topic or conference.
Twellow
With Twellow, you can search for someone on Twitter or browse through various tweet categories.
twitSeeker
twitSeeker is an alternate search engine for finding Twitter users and browsing the results in one interface.
Twitter Web-Based Mobile Apps
Hahlo
Hahlo is an excellent and fully featured Twitter client for your iPhone and iPod Touch.
TwitterFone
Send messages to Twitter using your voice.
PocketTweets
PocketTweets is a Web-based Twitter client for the Apple iPhone.
TinyTwitter
TinyTwitter works on any Java-enabled device and any Windows Mobile Pocket PC or smartphone.
TwitterBerry
TwitterBerry is a mobile client for posting updates to Twitter from your BlackBerry.
twitxr
Share pictures and status updates from your mobile.
Slandr
Slandr delivers an enhanced mobile website for Twitter.
Twitter2Go
Twitter2Go provides a quick and simple way to update your Twitter status.
Tapulous
Discover, connect with and send messages to people nearby. Upload photos and update your Twitter account.
Twittelator
Twittelator is an all-around great new application for your iPhone.
TwitterFon
TwitterFon is a simple, clean, easy to use and super-fast Twitter client for your iPhone and iPod Touch.
iTweet 2
iTweet 2 has built-in auto-refresh, search and hash tags. You can view user bios and locations and also view conversations with the “in reply to” links.
GPS Twit
Run GPS Twit on your phone to make it easy for your friends to find you.
iTwtr
An open-source Twitter client for your iPhone.
WordPress Twitter Plug-Ins
Twitter for WordPress
Twitter for WordPress displays yours latest tweets in your WordPress blog.
Twitter Tools
This plug-in integrates your WordPress blog and Twitter account. Pull your tweets into your blog, and create new tweets from blog posts from within WordPress.
Twitpress
Twitpress is a WordPress plug-in that submits a user-definable tweet to your Twitter account, notifying Twitter followers or friends that you have posted a new blog entry.
SimpleTwitter
SimpleTwitter allows you to add Twitter messages to WordPress templates (and not just in the sidebar).
Tweet This
A plug-in that adds a Twitter link to every post and page on your WordPress website, so that visitors can share your blog entries through their Twitter accounts. It also shortens URLs automatically.
TweetBacks
This plug-in imports any tweets that discuss your blog or post. The tweets appear as comments.
TwitterCounter
Install TwitterCounter on your blog to display the number of followers you have on Twitter.
MyTwitter
MyTwitter allows you to display your Tweets on your WordPress website and update your status on the MyTwitter settings page.
TweetRoll
With the TweetRoll widget, you can display the number of your followers and friends.
Twitt-Twoo
Twitt-Twoo is a simple little plug-in that allows you to update your Twitter status right from your blog’s sidebar.
Adobe Air Twitter Apps
Toro for Twitter
Designed to be simple, Toro uses an experimental Twitter client library to remove the Twitter API limit.
twhirl
Most of the features available on the Twitter website are accessible through twhirl, with usability enhancements.
Tweetr
Tweetr is a Twitter client that allows you to send and receive Twitter messages, but with some added cool features: support for taking photos with your webcam and sending files (up to 10 MB).
TweetDeck
TweetDeck aims to improve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking the abundance of Twitter feeds and breaking it down into more manageable bite-sized pieces.
DestroyTwitter
DestroyTwitter is a series of canvases that constantly update to keep tweets current and up to date using notifications that appear as soon as a new tweet is posted.
TwitterLocal
TwitterLocal is an Adobe AIR-based app that allows you to filter tweets by location.
Spaz
Spaz is a well-designed and well-developed Twitter client.
Snitter
Short for “Snooks’ Twitter,” Snitter is a cross-platform desktop Twitter client.
Twitch
Some features of Twitch are TwitPic integration, URL shortening, the ability to combine friends and replies, reply-highlighting hash-tag support and more.
Firefox Twitter Extensions
TwitBin
TwitBin is a Firefox extension that allows you to keep up with all of your Twitter conversations directly from your browser’s sidebar. Send and receive messages, share links and more.
Power Twitter
Power Twitter adds a multitude of features to the Twitter website interface.
TwitterFox
This extension adds a tiny icon to the status bar that notifies you when your friends have updated their Twitter status. It also has a small text input field to allow you to update your own status.
Twitzer
This Firefox extension lets you post tweets longer than 140 characters on Twitter.
TwitterBar
TwitterBar allows you to post to Twitter from the Firefox address bar.
Twitter Search
This plug-in gives you quick access to the real-time Twitter search engine.
Hoopla!
An essential Twitter plug-in for the Firefox quick search feature.
TwitterEyes
TwitterEyes keeps track of your character count as you compose tweets and replaces characters if you need extra room.
Finally, Worth A Look
Is Twitter Down?
Is Twitter down just for me or for everyone? This great app gives you a simple answer: yes or no.
twistori
An interesting Twitter experiment: click on a keyword on the left, and see what tweets are currently being published that contain that word.
Twittervision
A real-time geographic visualization of tweets. Amazing.
twittearth
Similar to Twittervision (above) but with a sleeker interface.
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Cory
March 17th, 2009 5:45 amGreat roundup. Looks like I have some playing to do because I haven’t heard of several of these.
Sean McCambridge
March 17th, 2009 5:52 amWhy does every article about Twitter have to start with something like “If you haven’t heard of Twitter by now, you must be living under a rock!”? So cliche. :-P @mccambridge
dmoena
March 17th, 2009 6:17 amisn’t too much twitter?
kahpeng
March 17th, 2009 6:18 amOMG! This is one loooooooooooong list, great man, I can’t imagine if there’s any future post for Developer’s Toolbox for Twitter XD Time to bookmark this post again… hehe
kahpeng
March 17th, 2009 6:24 am@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!
danniz
March 17th, 2009 6:30 am#3
vote +1
Sufiyan Ghouri
March 17th, 2009 6:32 amgreat finds…:)
Nuno Amaral
March 17th, 2009 6:35 amFixe.
Katia
March 17th, 2009 6:36 am@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”!
Benny
March 17th, 2009 7:18 amWow, great thanks!
PomCompot
March 17th, 2009 7:20 am99, 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.
m.o.m.
March 17th, 2009 7:38 amGreat List. Thx.
Gregory Culpin (MicroPlaza)
March 17th, 2009 7:39 amThanks 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
Kræn
March 17th, 2009 7:50 amWell maybe we live under a rock here in Denmark, but I reckon that I’m the only one I know who’s using Twitter – and I’m studying computer science at the university.
Davin
March 17th, 2009 8:10 amYeah 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?
Allen
March 17th, 2009 8:34 amI just dont get twitter, or maybe I’m just not so self-absorbed to think that anyone would want to hear my every annoying thought on anything… or that I’m that too important that I must share all my thoughts with everyone.
I have facebook, last.fm, blip.fm… ect, and I like to keep up with my friends… but my god do I need to know you just took a dump at 4:24am last night, and now your trying to get back to sleep??
Maybe I’m to introverted for social networking. or too extroverted to waste my time behind a computer?
Häm
March 17th, 2009 8:37 amI 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…
Leadsmarketer
March 17th, 2009 8:59 amHow can SEO and a search engine marketing campaign improve Leadsmarketer website (www.leadsmarketer.com) position in the search engines? Our marketing and sales department invested a lot of resources in writing all the content for our web site but we just can’t seem to be ranking high enough in the engines, while our competition is on top. Do we have to re-write it all over again?
Patrick Daly
March 17th, 2009 9:02 amIf there are 99 ESSENTIAL Twitter tools then tweeting just got way too complicated for me.
John Fredrickson
March 17th, 2009 9:21 amQuite an exhaustive list!
Have you tried Tweetree for viewing tweets with links embedded and replies in context?
Ash
March 17th, 2009 9:22 amTwitter is completely useless, I really dont understand the enthousiasm around this thing… But I also dont understand the frequency of articles about it.
Shay
March 17th, 2009 9:37 amNot even a mention of Twictur.es?
TheLukas
March 17th, 2009 9:38 amTwitter 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.
Katia
March 17th, 2009 9:49 amtwitter is not about having 200 pseudo-friends and telling them every little detail about your life! It permits keeping the link with close people without all the “blablabla they-write-so-much and the I’m-buying-you stuff ” of facebook. I find a good website on the net? I send the adress on twitter, I planning a travel to Paris? Telling my friends when i’m coming! FAST, SIMPLE. And it seems to be a very usefull marketing tool also.
Roger Willis
March 17th, 2009 9:50 amhootsuite is pretty awesome! It allows to connect and update to one or more twitter accounts at the same time.
Tweetizen
March 17th, 2009 9:53 amYou forgot twitter grouping made possible by Tweetizen (http://www.tweetizen.com)
Jon Dascola
March 17th, 2009 9:59 amfavrd.com
the most favored tweets a day.
Nicholas Telford
March 17th, 2009 10:07 amWhat about Tweetmeme and the Tweetmeme button/wordpress plugin?
Adam
March 17th, 2009 10:14 amEnough already!
WebAir
March 17th, 2009 10:16 amI Love article like this!
an other post for twitter people:
Precious Twitter Checklist – How Twitter works for you!
Usefuls tips and tools to help you improve the performance of your Twitter profile, for business but also for personal use.
Nicole
March 17th, 2009 10:19 amGreat 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.
Anaggh A. Desai
March 17th, 2009 10:23 amDid I miss seeing twibble here. Good for mobile phone.
Oskar Krawczyk
March 17th, 2009 10:36 amYou forgot lasttweet.com – Last.fm and Twitter’s offspring :-)
Duane
March 17th, 2009 11:00 amAlso check out http://urlcatch.com – URL shortener that gives you the ability to post to Twitter from IM (a basic Twitter IM account). Pretty neat!
Nicholas Telford
March 17th, 2009 11:36 amSorry 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.
Ali Baba
March 17th, 2009 11:39 amSounds like great post for Twitter junkies.
Tobi
March 17th, 2009 1:01 pmi found it’s too much twitter stuff, you’re posting. Twitter is booooring
Haddy
March 17th, 2009 1:12 pmI hate twitter… I guess I missed the boat. I’ll stick with facebook and linked-in.
Derek
March 17th, 2009 1:19 pmI’d mention Tweetizen in here too. More robust and useful app than a lot of those mentioned here.
GoEverywhere Team
March 17th, 2009 1:26 pmWow, this is quite the list! I admit to using Twellow, TwitterGrader, Twitpic, and Qwitter – but Remember the Milk sounds fabulous – I’m definitely going to check it out. I’ve made amazing contacts on Twitter and find myself checking several times a day from my webtop – so an tool helps.
Joffrey
March 17th, 2009 2:53 pmWhat about CMYKTweet?
It’s a nice mashup to tweet in CMYK! :)
twitter.com/joffrey
Geek and Hype
Chris
March 17th, 2009 2:57 pmI’d just like to mention a couple, firstly WeFollow.com http://wefollow.com (a simple directory by Kevin Rose/Digg founder) and *shameless plug* TwitStamp.com http://twitstamp.com which generates an auto-updating image from your tweets, to use as a widget on your site, email signature, etc.
cancel bubble
March 17th, 2009 3:01 pmStop this right now. 99 *essential* tools? This bullshit must stop.
Kristof
March 17th, 2009 3:23 pmAnother nice WordPress Twitter plugin is TweetSuite. Auto adds tweets that reference your post.
Kevin Sherman
March 17th, 2009 4:21 pmDon’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
Daniel Edmundson
March 17th, 2009 4:43 pmThanks!!!!!!!!
Mitch
March 17th, 2009 4:55 pmYou forgot FlashTweet.. the bulk follow/unfollow tool!
Dani McDaniel
March 17th, 2009 5:29 pmAwesome list and thank you so much for including justtweetit.com! :)
screenshot
March 17th, 2009 7:04 pmI suggest this site, http://www.twtmap.com, for ppl create a map url and tweet it.
Jack
March 17th, 2009 7:08 pmThis is one of the most appalling headlines I’ve ever seen for one of these fluffy link-baiting articles. I pray that the author simply doesn’t know what the word “essential” means. How could any reasonable person ever need ninety-nine Twitter “tools”? What would life be like using ninety-nine of these “tools” in various combinations?
It is admirable of Smashing Magazine to try to document the best of the recent glut of Twitter peripherals, but it is undignified, misleading, and inane to bill this list with the claim of being “essential.”
Bigdoggpinc
March 17th, 2009 7:43 pmHello 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!
jay-mi
March 17th, 2009 8:08 pmIf you’re havin’ twitter needs i feel bad for you son
i got 99 applications but a twitch ain’t one
hit me
Ajay
March 17th, 2009 9:00 pmThanks for including my TwitterCounter WordPress plugin in the list :)
minhaaj ur rehman
March 17th, 2009 10:52 pmplain amazing! mind blowing work :)
Andris
March 18th, 2009 1:02 amThanx for the list. Just added the TwitterBar for Firefox.
spritzstuhl
March 18th, 2009 1:05 amTwitter is not more then electronic dysentery. A hype with no content. Hate me for that but thats my opinion.
Ome_Jelle
March 18th, 2009 1:30 amI 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!
Adrian White
March 18th, 2009 2:03 amPwitter is a pretty cool twitter app for macs, much more light weight than tweetdeck.
R. Sebastian
March 18th, 2009 2:25 amThanks 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:
Scott
March 18th, 2009 2:59 amGreat list (!) but I also suggest the addition of Microplaza
Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach
March 18th, 2009 3:42 amDon’t forget the Ultimate Twitter (humor) Service!
http://www.TwitterBudgie.com
:)
Andrew Beeston
March 18th, 2009 3:50 amYou may not have known about http://www.HashDictionary.com it’s the dictionary for hashtags (helps you connect with conversations you don’t get!). It’s totally editable by all users – for instance AdTech conferences have used it to determine their official hashtags.
Fabrizio
March 18th, 2009 3:55 amThere are also http://hellotxt.com that allow you to manage one or more twitter account and other microblogging tools.
Paul Ingham
March 18th, 2009 3:55 amThought I’d mention TrackDailyGoals.com which tracks the #dailygoal hashtag and analyses your goals set for certain days.
requirezero
March 18th, 2009 4:37 amsome 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
Craig Hughes
March 18th, 2009 5:28 amI would like to add my new Twitter search service to the mix:
http://tweetzi.com
It is a real-time Twitter search tool that has been designed to help users surface useful information from the ‘Twittershere’. It features a couple of features such as allowing users to ‘play’ and ‘pause’ search result streams – making it ideal for following breaking news, live blogging / tweeting and keynotes etc.
I hope some of you find it of use…
Phil Franks
March 18th, 2009 6:14 amAlso, 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!
Joe Corbett
March 18th, 2009 7:43 amThanks for sharing that wealth I’ll let the readers at http://www.isteconnects.org/ no about your article. Thanks Again!
Ferdy
March 18th, 2009 10:57 amThe 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.
Matt
March 18th, 2009 1:14 pmdont forget twitterhawk.com, great for generating leads on twitter.
jorge alberto mussuto
March 18th, 2009 2:09 pmTweetDeck the best:)
elle
March 18th, 2009 3:56 pmAwesome list… definately some I have not yet seen… have to give the task one a try!
Thanks so much!
David Singer
March 18th, 2009 4:10 pmTwitsrc lets you post code snippets to Twitter.
Eric T. Peterson
March 18th, 2009 5:33 pmNice list. Under analytics have you seen Twitalyzer (http://www.twitalyzer.com)? We’d love to be added to this (very long) list.
Thanks.
99andBarry
March 18th, 2009 5:37 pmI’m confused. What’s a twitter?
Holly Powell
March 18th, 2009 6:05 pmI am really overwhelmed with Twitter. I know it has many tools that users can use but i never imagine this much..Thanks for sharing this post. It is really useful..
Carolina Lorca
March 18th, 2009 6:46 pmWTF !!… this is like TOO MUCH !!
Roberto Arancibia
March 18th, 2009 7:12 pmI miss Twitterrific here. Good in Macs.
And Favotter, updated hourly, sometimes.
Best regards from Chile
Jessica
March 19th, 2009 12:47 amYou 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
ally
March 19th, 2009 5:20 amMaybe you would also like to see the essential Twitter illustrations. Great stuff here
http://www.inspiredm.com/2009/03/02/twitter-art-the-most-inspirational-twitter-graphics/
Ruby Gottlieb
March 19th, 2009 1:06 pmIt’sofficial. Twitter has reached the tipping point.
andré
March 19th, 2009 1:26 pmIntéressant tous ses outils.
Pariah Burke
March 19th, 2009 2:48 pmIncredible list!
Klaye Morrison
March 19th, 2009 4:54 pmWhat’s Twitter? :|
@AronStevenson
March 19th, 2009 9:45 pmVery useful, thanks for posting
Thibaut
March 20th, 2009 6:33 amThere’s a great brand new AIR app called Twitt’m, check it out! Twitt’m
Justin Parks
March 20th, 2009 7:10 amTwitter 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.
Mudry
March 20th, 2009 8:46 amThank a super-List!
Jaime
March 21st, 2009 5:14 amGreat!
George
March 21st, 2009 6:43 amIt’s understandable if one doesn’t want to use Twitter, but it’s a little sad that anyone in the design industry wouldn’t understand the value. Create an account and follow a few industry leaders like Cameron Moll, Daniel Benjamin, or Eric Meyer and you’ll see why: the stream of information you receive is clean, useful, and personal. That’s what separates it from your buddy’s MySpace page: intent and execution.
Also, I think it’s good to highlight one of the most useful and sought after uses of Twitter Karma — bulk follow/unfollow. You can view everyone who follows you and whom you follow, check any number of them, and with one click, follow or unfollow all of the people you’ve checked.
On the subject of this being too long of a list: IMO, maybe it is for one sitting. However, keep in mind that many of these apps are extremely useful, and there is some overlap. One person may prefer Twutter to TweetLater, and so giving one the options available to them is beneficial.
Anuj Seth - Twitdom
March 21st, 2009 10:48 amAwesome list.
You might want to check out Twitdom also. It is a Twitter Applications Database with nearly 600 Twitter Applications listed.
Aakash
March 21st, 2009 12:50 pmIts really big list
Bri
March 23rd, 2009 3:07 amThank you so much!!! Very helpful. I never realized Twitter had such a vast amount of apps o.O Twitter is taking over the internet.
Paul
March 23rd, 2009 9:31 am#100 – HootSuite
JP
March 26th, 2009 1:44 pmYou 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!
Shredder Blog
April 3rd, 2009 3:18 am[...]Twitter-Neulinge sind etliche nützliche Sachen[...]
claire stokoe
April 7th, 2009 1:59 amWell i for one got slightly unerved and interested all at the same time with this list.. Tweetdomion….
Misty
April 8th, 2009 10:47 pmYou forgot my favorite Twitter ap. twAitter. as in wait to twitter.
I use it for all my scheduling of tweets, but its also a full twitter client.
Definately should be in your top 100. Lets call it #100.
Great List Though!
Jeff Dunn
April 10th, 2009 10:52 amIf 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.
Twitter Loco
April 25th, 2009 3:01 pmThanks a lot. didn’t realize there was soo many I didn’t use!
Thanks