Hummingbird

Hummingbird is an intelligent Twitter marketing tool. It targets and auto follows Twitter accounts based on keywords. It also provides stats and reports of your account, followers, and interested tweets.

As an Adobe Air app, Hummingbird supports Windows and Mac OSX (it should support Linux though it’s not written in Hummingbird website. Strange uh?). One cool feature of Hummingbird is that it supports 3rd party plugins and most of them are free. Unfortunately Hummingbird itself is not free and kinda expensive.. 197$! and there’s not trial version to test.. At least the screenshots shows some of the mentioned features.

Dabr

Dabr is Twitter web client for mobiles and can work with any mobile connects to internet. Its interface is very simple to use and has lots of features.

At the top, you have different pages of your friends tweets, replies, direct messages, Twitter search, trends, friends profiles, and favorites. There’s also a page for uploading pictures to TwitPic.

One cool feature of Dabr is the ability to change the interface to best fit your phone screen. In the settings page, there’s an interface for iPhone (touch phones), normal phones, text only, PC/Labtop, and work safe interface (which is a very simple minimal not colored interface to make sure work in all mobiles).

For each tweet, there are options to reply, retweet, DM or to favorite the tweet.

Kzalek

Kzalek is a decent Adobe Air Twitter client for Arabic users. Adobe Air apps have problems in viewing Arabic fonts in Mac and Linux (as well Flash). Kzalek solves this issue and also provides right to left (RTL) view for Arabic tweets.

What makes Kzalek lovely is it’s simple minimal interface plus the features that are presented in small neat icons. Features like translating tweets to Arabic, expanding shortened URLs using Untiny service, and uploading images to TwitPic.

Kzalek still in beta supporting an Arabic interface only for now. It seems promising in future as global Twitter client in case the English interface is supported. Note that Spaz Adobe Air app also support Arabic encoding in tweets.

Developed by Mustafa Farghay. More on ArabCrunch.

Termtter

Termtter is a terminal based Twitter client written in Ruby language. You can post tweets, send direct messages, view followers, and more using shell commands! A geeky type of apps.. Also Termtter supports plugins to extend the functionality of the app.

Termtter can run in Linux and MacOS. For Windows users, there’s a Quitter command line Twitter app.

TwitWho

TwitWho is a human-edited directory of Twitter users. It contains categories and each category has featured users, like arts, business and news. You can become an editor in TwitWho and help moderate the directory editing.

TwitLay

TwitLay provides a free and easy way to customize your Twitter profile background . What makes TwitLay ( Twitter Layout) service better than other profile background Twitter services, is that it’s totally free and very easy in merging two pictures, e.g. the background picture and your own picture with your photo and info.

Swift Twitter App

Swift is a simple Twitter app for Android phones. Swift is free and has number of features like photo and video uploading. Swift is still under development and new features are added in every release. You keep updated with latest features via the Swift Google Group.

Twibble Mobile

Twibble Mobile is a Java mobile Twitter app supporting wide range of mobile devices (Nokia, BlackBerry or any Java enabled mobile).

Twibble mobile has many features like uploading pics with TwitPic or any media (pic, text, audio and video!) with Mobypicture service. Also it supports identi.ca/laconi.ca instances. View all features of Twibble Mobile here. Not all these features come with the free version of Twibble Mobile. The full version is for 4.9 Euros.

Twibble was featured on many major websites like TechCrunch, Mashable, and BBC online.

Pocketwit

Pocketwit is a free open-source Twitter client for Windows Mobile devices (PocketPCs and SmartPhones.) with number of functions. The application is open-source under MIT license and built with .NET 2.0 compact platform.

The application has number of notable features like updating your location (requires GPS), grouping your friends, multiple accounts supporting, sharing images using different photo sharing services (TwitPix, Yfrog…), taking and uploading a photo from your mobile camera, and long tweeting using shorttext.com. It supports identi.ca accounts as well.

Flitter

Flitter is an awesome Windows screensaver for Twitter and Flickr. It’s free and open-source app built with .NET framework. The screensaver is highly configurable, you can watch the last tweets or pics from the public timeline of Twitter or Flickr, or watch specific users. You can also watch your Twitter and Flickr network.

To install the screen saver, you need to right click on the Flitter.scr file and choose “Install” from the menu.

TinyTwitter

TinyTwitter is a simple Twitter client for any Java enabled phones (like Nokia, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile phones, Pocket PCs, SmartPhones, Motorola, LG, and others). Tiny Twitter doesn’t have much features like other mobile Twitter client. It’s minimal client and free as well. Check all features here.

What The Trend?

What The Trend? is a web service that tells why a certain trend is popular right now. Very smart service and brings you the latest tweets, news , and photos of the trend. For example, there’s a current trend “Microsoft”, and What The Trend? explaination of the trend is that Gizmodo released an exclusive report of the Courier, Microsoft’s “secret” tablet:

MySpace Sync

MySpace has lunched a new service recently to synchronize MySpace users statuses with Twitter and vise versa. Just visit the MySpace Sync page and choose Twitter from the list. It will direct you to Twitter for OAuth Twitter authentication. After allowing MySpace to use your twitter account, you are done!

Now when tweet or update your status on MySpace, you will get two way synchronization. Pretty cool and simple. MySpace Sync is currently beta and supports only Twitter. But other services will be added soon. Hope the next would be Facebook synchronization

GoodbyeBuddy

GoodbyeBuddy is a Twitter bot account like FollowerMonitor service. It sends you direct messages when someone unfollows you. Differ than FollowerMonitor which sends only replies (not direct messages). You only need to follow GoodbyeBuddy to use the service. A much better alternative for Qwitter service.

Twikini

Twikini is written in native C++ programming language which makes it a fast app. It supports uploading pictures using TwitPic and different URL shortening services. One cool feature is integration with Windows Media Player by tweeting the song you are listening to plus the artist name.

Bad that Twikini is free for 14 days only as tria, or you can buy it for $4.95 only.

Flyar

Flyar is an interactive Twitter screensaver based on Augmented Reality and gesture interaction technologies using your webcam for capturing motions. The application is so funny and lets feel the real noise of Twitter

It’s difficult to explain this visualization project .. just watch!

Archivist

Archivist is a Twitter desktop app for Windows that aims to archive tweets for later use or search. The app is simple, just write a word and Archivist will search for its latest tweets and keeps updating every 5 minutes.

The problem this Twitter app is trying to solve is that Twitter search can’t show more than 1500 tweets of a certain word search, also, many Twitter users I’ve faced missing old tweets. Archivist comes to store the tweets on your desktop as XML files, or even export them to Microsoft Excel.

One big con of Archivist is it can only archive the tweets of a word search, not the tweets of your time line and your friends. Also the Archivist search criteria is very week offering only search for words, not users, not in a time or other options as what Twitter search offers.

Choqok

Choqok is a micro-blogging client for Linux K Desktop Environment (KDE). It’s free and open source application supporting Twitter and Identi.ca.

The name “choqok” comes from an ancient Persian word which means Sparrow!

ChoqoK has many features like multiple accounts, supporting right to left (RTL) languages, TwitPic integration, KWallet integration, ability to notify user about new statuses text with KNotification or Libnotify, expanding shortened URLs using Untiny service, and many others.

Echofon (Formerly TwitterFon)

Echofon (formerly TwitterFon) is a simple and easy to use iPhone Twitter app with many features.

There’s a free version comes with TwitPic integration, video uploading, shortened URLs previewing and other features.

The pro version (for $4.99) comes with much extra features like supporting multiple Twitter account, push notifications , sync Echofon iPhone with Echofon Firefox plugin (TwitterFox), ad free, bit.ly and Flickr integration, and others. Check all features of both versions here.

Twitter Love

Twitter Love lets you find others on Twitter who like the same things as you. A special search engine for Twitter with nice idea.

Super Chirp

Super Chirp lets you charge your followers for some or all of your tweets.

* Super Chirp allows you to “chirp” via direct message to people who pay to “subscribe” to you.
* It works with your existing Twitter account. You chirp by sending a direct message to superchirp.
* You set the monthly price ($0.99 to $9.99) and we handle the recurring billing. You keep 70%.
* Charge for timely news or premium content. Grant exclusive access. Promote a charity.

Spreadtweet

http://elliottkember.com/spreadtweet/

Spreadtweet is a clever Twitter app disguised as a spreadsheet, so it looks like you’re doing work when you’re actually using Twitter.

TwitQA

TwitQA is a simple to use questions and answers website built around Twitter. You can easily browse questions by category and answer them in 140 characters or less.

TwitterButtons.info

TwitterButtons.info generates tons of “Follow Me” Twitter buttons that you can choose from and paste on your website, blog, social profile page, etc.

TweetPsych

TweetPsych builds a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets. Very interesting web application to use.

1kdaysontwitter

1kdaysontwitter is a simple app that tells you if you have been on Twitter for one-thousand days or not. If not, you can see exactly what day of month and year you will be, along with how many days short you are.

140 Tees

140tees lets you choose your favorite tweet and have it printed on a T-Shirt with a design of your choice.

Twittospheric

Twittospheric let you see in real-time all tweets about any topic like if you were in the twittosphere!

It’s a fun and cool way also to explain to your friends what is Twitter with an original visualisation of the new tweets, there, up in the higher skies!

TwittaCookie

TwittaCookie is a fortune cookie tweeted daily to your twitter account. Kinda a nice game to see your fortune for today

TwitterBackground

TwitterBackground is a service provides many free twitter themes (backgrounds and colors) and it installs them automatically via twitter API . New backgrounds are added daily.

Find2Follow

Find2Follow is a minimalistic approach to find people you may like to follow on Twitter. It’s fun and doesn’t ask for your twitter password.

I tested the service and it really gives great intelligent results to follow. It seems that its algorithm depends on analyzing your followers network. That’s why it takes a long time to give you results especially if you have more than 1,000 followers.

For twtbase twitter account, it has about 2000 followers and I took about 4 minutes to get the results. I tested another twitter account with more than 11,000 followers, for about 15 min, still didn’t get any result!

The good thing, you will experience the waiting in the first time analyzing a twitter account. After that the next trials become much faster.

Find2Follow is a lab test from SwatLabs.

Twibbon

Twibbon.com is an easy way to promote awareness of causes on twitter. You can create a twibbon “a cause symbol” in 3 easy steps and soon the supporters will be proudly wearing their twibbons on their twitter profile images.

Very nice simple idea to market a cause on twitter. I tested one cause I believe everyone should promote, “IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On”! yes! Currently there are about 4700 twitter users who promote this cause.

The TwtBase twitter image after joining the cause:

Nice eh

TwitDraw

Graffiti, one of Facebook’s largest application with 12.5 million users, just launched a similar application for twitter, TwitDraw.

The app is very simple to use. You can watch a reply of the drawing and choose the speed of the reply.

It will ask for your twitter account to tweet your draw hashed with #twitdraw. And your followers can rate your draw and may place at the top rated draws in the gallery.

Top draws in the gallery are really drawn by talented people. Watch this example:

Mixero

Mixero is a smart Twitter client helps in controlling the flow and noise of information. Considered as a new generation of Twitter clients, Mixero is an Adobe Air app with full synchronization capabilities and an iPhone app also will be available soon.

DoesFollow

DoesFollow.com is a simple web service checks if a twitter user follow another one. Just write the twitter user username and click check.

TweetSentiments

tweetsentiments.com provides Sentiment Analysis on tweets using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies.

The service analyzes tweets content in a chosen topic or tweets of a specified user, and divide them to positive, neutral, or negative tweets. The formal used is to determine the Sentiment Index is [100*((positive-negative)/total/2+0.5)] and the result categories the tweets to:
0 -> most negative
1..49 -> negative
50 -> neutral
51..99 -> positive
100 -> most positive

The sentiment results are calculated based on OpenAmplify’s Natural Language Processing application and LibSVM/LibLINEAR (Support Vector Machines) machine learning tools.

TwitLonger

twitlonger.com lets tweets with more than 140 characters. Just login with your twitter account and write what you want and post!

It will tweet the first few words of your longer tweet with a link to the full tweet. Nice idea.

Twitlonger is part of many known twitter clients like Tweetie and iTwitter.

DestroyTwitter

DestroyTwitter is an Adobe Air twitter client application working on Windows, Mac and Linux. Like Mixero, you can organize your followers and followings to groups, or group based on keywords tweeted.

TwtMaps

TwtMaps is a new web app that allows you to enter your twitter name and get a map that shows all your friends locations, as well as a little bit of info about each twitter. You can also compare two twitter users’ maps and get the results in two different colors, one for each user.

GeoChirp

GeoChirp helps you search for people twittering for specific things in a specific area. It has very simple and interactive interface. Since it depends on the “location” information of twitter – which is not always accurate or not empty, the results are always correct. But still gives good and unexpected results.

TwitPrint

TwitPrint is a free Twitter printer – it takes your Twitter tweets and makes them printer friendly. You can even include Twitpic.com images and user avatars.

Twilk

Twilk is a Twitter background generator which will create a custom background made up of your friends’ profile photos.

TwitBlock

TwitBlock finds out how many of your followers are spammers. It gives the option to analyze specific twitter account or all your followers. Great tool to get rid of twitter spam and block their users!

Squeezer

Squeezer is an iPhone app (and iPod touch app as well) that allows you to shorten URL’s that you may have copied from Safari then update your status on Twitter and/or Facebook. You may also send the shortened URL’s as SMS or email. All of that using a single application! Find Squeezer in App Store for $1.99 only