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JasonSlater.co.uk Technology News Blog | September 15, 2013

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Twitter Tools

Twitter Central Resource

Once you really start using Twitter you may want to look at ways of enhancing your experience. Fortunately, a number of useful tools and services are available to enhance your Twitter experience.

Interesting Ways To View Tweets on Twitter

  • TweetPortal – “tweet-based information in a variety of logical categories”
  • Geoheartbeat.com – “Geoheartbeat.com is where Google Maps meets Twitter”
  • Twittearh – “live Twitt’s all over the world.”
  • Twitscoop – “Twitscoop was built to help you stay on top of twitter’s hot topics or discussions.”
  • TwitterThoughts – “TwitterThoughts creates charts based on Twitter tweets”
  • Twitterfall – “Twitterfall is a way of viewing the latest ‘tweets’ of upcoming trends and custom searches”
  • Monitter – “Web-based tool allowing anyone to monitor Twitter in real-time for any words they choose.”
  • SXSW 2009 Twitter Visualiser – “Twitter Visualiser”
  • Twitter StreamGraphs – “A StreamGraph is shown for the latest 1000 tweets which contain the search word.”
  • Twittervision – “A real-time geographic visualization of posts to Twitter.”
  • Twittervision 3D – “3D view of Twittervision”
  • Twistori Desktop Edition – “beautiful twitter exploration software for OS X”
  • KipFolio Widget – “Handy Twitter Kip for KipFolio users.”
  • Twitter in Colors – “An interesting student project to visualise a users tweets”
  • Tidy Tweet – “TidyTweet helps keep your Twitter feed free from inappropriate language, users, and content.”

Twitter Statistics and Tracking

  • Twitterholic.com – “A few times a day, we calculate individual statistics for each twittering twit in our database.”
  • TweetStats – “Graph your Twitter Stats including Tweets per hour, Tweets per month, Tweet timeline, Reply statistics”
  • TwitterCounter.com – “TwitterCounter Stats: The Ultimate Twitter Statistics Provider!”
  • Twitt(url)y – “Twitturly is a service for tracking what URLs people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter”
  • Twitemperature – “Twitemperature is a gauge telling you whether you’re hot or cold on today’s topics of concern.”
  • TwitterBuzz – “Shows the most popular links on Twitter”

Finding Information Using Twitter

  • – “Search Twitter in realtime – see what the world is doing right now.”
  • Twitter Local – “Adobe AIR based application that allows you to filter Tweets by location.”

Twitter Profile Backgrounds

  • TwitArt – “Get a custom designed, one-of-a-kind Twitter background, custom avatar, or both—for one low price!”
  • Twitter–Backgrounds – “Free backgrounds for your Twitter profile.”
  • Tweetstyle – “Browse our free Twitter backgrounds and other resources or get a custom Twitter background of your own.”
  • Custom Twitter Background – “Make a Statement and Stand Out with a Custom Designed Twitter Background”
  • Twitter Backgrounds – “TwitterBackgroundImages.com is an excellent place to download free images from a huge collection of wallpapers, for use as a Twitter background”
  • Pretty Tweet – “Create a FREE Twitter Background with our Visual Designer”
  • Twitter Backs – “Ready to get a better Twitter background going? Go ahead and download the files below and construct your own Twitter background.”
  • Twitbacks – “Create your own Twitter background with your branding – Free.”
  • My Tweet Space – “MyTweetSpace.com offers Twitter Users a way to brand their Twitter Profile without having any creative know how at all.”
  • Twitter Image – “Custom Twitter backgrounds. Take advantage of the marketing benefits a custom Twitter background can provide.”
  • KillerTweets – “Incredible designers. Amazing Twitter backgrounds. Low price. What else do you need?”

Twitter Friends and Followers

  • Who Should i Follow?
  • Twitter Twerp Scan – “Are you followers just trying to get followed?”
  • Friend Or Follow
  • My Tweeple – “make informed decisions when it comes to following people on Twitter.”
  • Twitter Karma – “Learn more about your Twitter friends”
  • TwitterWho – “Batch People Search For Twitter”
  • TwitterPacks – “Arranging Twitterers by interests, location, and other topics”
  • TweetWheel – “Find out which of your Twitter friends know each other!”
  • Twitter100 – “See all your Twitter followers, with their latest Tweet, all on one screen”
  • Mr. Tweet – “Your Personal Networking Assistant for Twitter”
  • Twits Like Me – “Enter your Twitter screenname to find other twitterers who probably share your interests”
  • CrowdStatus – “Create your own crowd with Twitter”
  • Twubble – “Twubble is a Twitter extension which helps you find more friends.”
  • Huitter Mutuality – “A simple service which allow you to make bulk operations with your account”

Extensions For Twitter

Clients and Other Ways To Tweet on Twitter

  • TweetDeckRead our review: TweetDeck – Making Twitter Easier To Use
  • TweetLater
  • Pwytter – “The free muti-platform Twitter client written in Python”
  • – “Twitter client for Windows”
  • Twuffer – “Twuffer allows the Twitter user to compose a list of future tweets, and schedule their release.”
  • Twittermail
  • BeTwittered
  • Twhirl
  • SecretTweet – “Post your secrets anonymously to Twitter”
  • TwitterBox – “A second life client for Twitter“
  • MoTwit for Palm OS
  • Lounge – “Lounge – Mac Twitter Client”
  • Nambu – “Nambu Touch for the iPhone”
  • OutTwit – “Use Twitter directly from Outlook”
  • Quakk – “Quakk is an Open Source Windows Mobile Twitter Application”

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If you have a Twitter tool or service you would like to share here please let me know at twittertools @ jasonslater.co.uk (remember to remove the spaces either side of the @).

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