Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Pocketwit

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

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

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?

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 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

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

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

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 :D

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

Archivist

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

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)

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.




Monday, September 14, 2009

Twitter Love

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


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

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

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

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

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

1kdaysontwitter

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

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

Twittospheric

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

TwitterBackground

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

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

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 :D


TwitDraw

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


TwitBlock

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

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


TwitterThreads

TwitterThreads

TwitterThreads is a web twitter application that threads your tweets so you can see who is replying to whom easily. It’s handy when there are a lot of @replies in your feed or people who post very frequently.

TweetBoard


TweetBoard


TweetBoard is a website add-on where you can have a true conversation about your website using twitter! It’s one of best twitter apps we ever tested. It will add a small left tab to your web page and your visitors can click it and view all tweets related to your website. You can think of it as a small forum!

TweetBlocker

TweetBlocker

TweetBlocker helps in identifying the spammers in your followers. It’s very simple, just provide a twitter username and TweetBlocker will check its tweets and rank the user with a grade from A to F. Or you can login and it will check all your followers for spam tweets.

The application is pretty similar to TwitBlock app. The big advantage of using TweetBlocker is its ranking for the twitter users (A to F) rather than saying a twitter account is a spam or not as TwitBlock (which is not accurate all the time).

Greet tool to block spam accounts.




TweetWorth

TweetWorth

TweetWorth is a simple Twitter app tells how much a twitter account worth in dollars! Not clear how TweetWorth calculates the value however it’s fun to use.

Very similar to a previous application that we have reviewed, TweetValue. We notice that TweetWorth gives higher values than TweetValue. Again not clear how both sites calculate the value.




TwitRes

TwitRes

TwitRes lets users share their resume/cv on Twitter. It’s the quickest way to publish your resume on Twitter.


MovieCritter

MovieCritter

MovieCritter is a place to review and rate movies via twitter. Twitter users can rate or comment on movies and you can see the average rate of each movie. Pretty nice idea.

The rating is done by tweeting a movie name and a percentage rate to @moviecritter, like this:
“Cannibal! The Musical” 88% @moviecritter





iTrends

iTrends

iTrends is an iPhone app that can simply lets you find out what are the current trending topics on twitter and also tells you the news behind why is it trending.

It will search for lasts tweets of the the trending topics and give you the option to search on Google also or in other news website.

Available here in the App Store for free!



Friend of Friends for Twitter

IsFriendOfFriends

IsFriendOfFriends is a simple web app that tests if someone is followed by the friends of another twitter account. The app is hosted with Google app engine project. See the example in the screenshot above