50 Cool & Useful Twitter Applications

Here is a collection of Twitter Apps for Twitter Lovers. A bunch of Twitter based apps had sprung up in the last few months, covering every aspects of Twitter usage. As twitter is going up in popularity, these apps are also gaining their share of fame and traffic too.

The list is compiled or sorted not based on any parameters. Just a list of Twitter Apps. AS I started collecting the list, it grew larger and larger and I had to really stop at 50, even though I was having an even bigger list with me at this time. The apps listed below are those twitter based applications which I feel might be useful to you too…

1. Mr Tweet

Mr. Tweet is your personal networking agent who helps you expand your network easily. To do that, he helps you regularly:

• Get relevant followers by recommending you to them
• Discover great people relevant to your current needs
• Improve your Twitter usage via useful statistics

2. Twithority

Twitter Search by — Authority. Twithority – search engine that ranks results by ‘authority’. Results are displayed by rank and time.

3. twtpoll

Create multiple choice polls for Twitter and Facebook.

4. Twuffer

Twuffer allows the Twitter user to compose a list of future tweets, and schedule their release.Recommended uses include:

• Tweet hourly/daily/monthly announcements
• appointment/milestone reminders
• run a time-based scavenger hunt
• notify subscribers about upcoming podcast or video episodes
• appear to never sleep

5. twit.pix.ly

Rate the avatars of the Twitterers you follow in some kind of crazy (and perhaps a little dull) avatar smackdown. You vote on avatars of people you are following. Only people that follow you may vote for you. You see the same avatar a lot? Follow more people to mix up the stream.

6. Twply

Get your Twitter @ replies sent to you via email. Warning – Read this (or have a look at what users are saying here) before you think of signing up. Alternative services include: TwitterMail.

7. 2Tweet

Email multiple photos and videos with a message to 2tweet and they will Tweet on your behalf, including a link to a slideshow of your pics or vids.

8. Twoogie

Twoogie, M.D. lets Twitter users channel the good Doctor via what we hope is a close approximation of his word-processing experience. Just type out your Doogie-ism, and press the SAVE button at the bottom of the screen to publish your tweet.

9. My Twitter Notebook

My Twitter Notebook is a place for you to collect notes for yourself. You send the notes with twitter (Direct Message tweetnote) and you can get them here.

10. TweetChat

TweetChat helps put your blinders on to the Twitter-sphere while you monitor and chat about one topic.Each tweet you make automatically gets a hashtag added for the room you are in – no need to worry about hashtag typos.The room auto-updates with new posts using the hashtag you are following – no need to reload…

11. Happytweets

Happytweets is a measuring stick for how positive, or happy, a particular Tweep is. Enter the Twitter username for you or one of your buddies, click the “get happy” button, and you’ll find out how happy your Tweets are.They look at a bunch of Tweets you’ve made recently, and then a smurf pulls a number out of a hat, and that’s your score. Just kidding.There’s some cool stuff going on under the sheets that looks at what you say and how you say it, and you get a score that way.

12. Twitterless

Twitterless tells you who stops following you and graphs your follower history over time, making this info available in a variety of useful views.See all of your followers or friends on one page. Filter them by keywords in their description, sort them by a variety of attributes, and search for terms in their tweet history

13. Twitroid

Twitter app for Android mobiles.

14. Twidentify

Search all of Twitter, but sort the results by the people who get retweeted the most. This will help you find opinions that others feel are worth spreading.

15. Twitemperature

Find out how hot you are. How does it work it all out? “We poll your last several hundred tweets and score what you’re saying against what everyone else is saying in current hot conversations on Twitter and elsewhere.

16. Twitter Venn

Enter two or three search terms separated by commas and press the ‘Search’ button or type Enter/Return. After the data is retrieved a Venn Diagram is shown which illustrates the rate of tweets containing the search terms in the various combinations. See the Neoformix post on Twitter Venn for more details.

17. DestroyTwitter

DestroyTwitter is a compact though robust Twitter application built to run on Mac, Windows, and Linux using Adobe AIR. It consists of a series of canvases that constantly update to keep tweets up-to-date using notifications that appear when a new tweet arrives. DestroyTwitter uses a minimal amount of memory compared to its AIR-based alternatives without sacrificing functionality and performance. As a result, it can easily run in the background as an automated process.

18. Twitlonger

Twitlonger is a way to let you post to Twitter when 140 characters just isn’t enough.With Twitlonger, you can write what you need and a link to what you said will automatically be posted to your Twitter account. It’s like twitpic for text.

19. twtcard

Send a greeting card, a surprise message, or an invitation on Twitter or via email. Type your message here and then copy the link!

20. Twits Near Me

Displays (an automatically refreshes) recent Tweets from people near you.

21. Twit Buttons

Easily generate code for your twitter “follow me” button. Enjoy your free hosted twitter buttons!Simply enter your Twitter ID and proper code will be automatically generated for your button

22. Twitter Buttons

Enter your Twitter ID below and Press GO, then you can copy the code (click “Copy Code”) of any button you like and past it on your Blog, Web Page or any where and let others follow you. That’s it… enjoy tweeting

23. TwitterFriends

With TwitterFriends you can….

• find out the hidden network of Twitter contacts that are really relevant for you.
• visualize the network of your relevant contacts and their contacts
• see who of your Twitter friends are online this very moment
• read some stats about your Twitter account
• take a look at the most conversational Twitterers or those who are posting the most links

24. Twitority

Authority based twitter search.

25. Twitter Gadget

TwitterGadget is a clean, robust, web 2.0 style client for Twitter.com, designed to submit status updates to Twitter via your iGoogle homepage or Gmail Account.
TwitterGadget is completely AJAX based, meaning, at the user-specified refresh interval, only the status update content is refreshed in-line, on the gadget page. This means reduced bandwidth utilization between you and Twitter.com, while providing for a more user-friendly experience.

26. My Tweet Space

Customise and brand your Twitter space. Select a background, input contact details etc. and upload photos.

27. tweetshrink

Tweetshrink tries its very best to fit your text within the harsh constraints of a tweet by replacing common phrases and words with shorter representations. Kind of like running your new text through the dryer or sending it to fat camp.
Tweetshrink is a service aimed at Twitter users, helping shave those few extra letters off a tweet that has exceeded the 140 character maximum. The goal was really to help users who clip that max allowance without having to actively edit their tweet or changing the meaning or basic readability of the original message.

28. Twee Tree

Tweetree puts your Twitter stream in a tree so you can see the posts people are replying to in context. It also pulls in lots of external content like twitpic photos, youtube videos and more, so that you can see them right in your stream without having to click through every link your friends post.

29. My First Follow

Find out who you followed first on Twitter. Note that you need to be logged in to Twitter (but when are you ever not logged in, huh?

30. Tweetwaster

Just how much time DO you spend on Twitter?

31. Twilert

Twilert is a Twitter application that lets you receive regular email updates of tweets containing your brand, product, service, well any keyword you like really.

32. Qwitter

Qwitter e-mails you when someone stops following you on Twitter

33. Twitclicks

TweetClicks is the FREE webservice that lets you shorten the URLs you share on Twitter. TwitClicks with then provide you with details stats on:

• Which of your followers are clicking on your links
• Where they are located
• Technical Stats
• …and more

34. Friend or Follow

Who are you following that’s not following you back? Who’s following you that you’re not following back? Find out!

35. Twitfessions

Twitfessions is a fun way to relieve yourself of that little secret or unspoken sin you committed.

36. Tw-autocomplete

An astonishingly simple add-on for Firefox that adds autocomplete support for @-messages and d-messages to Twitter.com

37. Twitmarks

Twitmarks is an experiment to “guess” a person’s gender from their Twitter stream. Just enter your Twitter username below and try it out.

38. Hipandtwendy

Hip & Twendy provides colorful, repeating background graphics for use on your Twitter, MySpace or other social networking page that allows customization.

39. Twitter Patterns

Provide free background patterns for your Twitter profile.

40. Twitter Gallery

Twitter themes, best part is it will install the theme in just one click.

41. Toro for Twitter

Toro is a Twitter client that is made to be simple. Toro is currently using an experimental Twitter client library that removes the Twitter API limit.

42. Lazy Tweety

LazyTweet is a merger of The LazyWeb (more here) and Twitter. The idea of The LazyWeb started out as soliciations for features and product ideas, but with the help of the conversations started with blogs and twitter, it has really morphed into requests or questions of any sort.

43. TweetRemote

TweetRemote merges Twitter and blogging in a unique way that lets you decide when and how your tweets are included on your blog.
TweetRemote recognizes your tweets based on hashtags and creates files containing formatted XML based on the type of content contained in the tweet. These files can then be automatically aggregated into a blog or other dynamic website.

44. Twitly

With twitly you can seperate the people you follow on twitter into groups. Also create groups based on search terms and keywords, and post directly to Twitter.

45. LastFM love/twitter mashup

After siging up, any track that you ‘love’ on lastfm will automatically generate a tweet from you that has the track’s artist and name, as well as a link to it so your followers can give it a listen.

46. TwitWall

With TwitWall, you can embed your favorite videos and widgets, upload your photos, mp3 music or podcasts, – you name it. Just the kind of stuff to keep your followers following (fans cheering, or clients calling). All that, while still enjoying the many social-goodness and customization features you enjoy on Twitter.

47. Twitter League

Have a group of users and want to see who has more followers? Well now you can with TwitterLeague. It’s really simple, just sign in with your existing Twitter username and create your league (or as many leagues as you like). All you do is then grab the code and paste it anywhere you like for all to see.

48. Tweader

Tweader is a new way to view twitter conversations. Long gone are the days of going through all of a tweet’s @replies to get a grasp of the conversation. All you have to do now is enter the tweet’s ID below and have it all done for you.

49. Tweetake

The brainchild of Alfred Armstrong and Nikki Pilkington, Tweetake is here to allow you to back-up your followers, people you are following and Tweets with just one click.
Why bother to do this? Many reasons:

• Twitter may lose followers again like it did in June / July
• You may change your Twitter name and want to re-follow the people you were following, and contact the people who were following you
• You may want to refer to an older Tweet – currently Twitter does not keep all of your older Tweets
• You may just like backing things up, ‘just in case’

50. TweetMyPage

“TweetMyPage” is a service allowing a user to easily post to Twitter some information about the page he is currently reading in his web browser, by a simple button click.
After you install TweetMyPage in your web browser, every time you want to share a page you are reading with your Twitter friends, simply click on the “TweetMyPage” button in your web browser’s Links bar.

Twitter

Website : www.twitter.com
Service : Micro-Blogging
Available Language(s) : English, Japanese
Location : South Park, San Francisco, California
Founded : March 2006
Twitter is social networking and micro-blogging site that allows users to post their latest updates. An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: web form, text message, or instant message.The service was started by Obvious Corp, and had launched the Japanese version in April 2008.